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Originally Posted by Nin_estarSaerah
As kickoff 2010 approaches and our team starts to plan for it, I was wondering what other teams are planning on doing this year. Here in SC, our regional kick-off is so small that our whole team can't go, so we're planning to get together at school, something we haven't done before. I would love to start the season in a way that is both useful and fun, especially to new members who aren't quite sure what it's all about yet. So I'm wondering, both out of curiosity and for information, what do other teams do? Do you have a celebration to get the team excited about build season, or get right down to business designing?
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Team 228 has traditionally sent a few mentors nearly every year to Dean's house for the Founder's Reception to schmooze, who then stay over to the next day for the Manchester Kickoff. There, we take photos of the field and get a chance to play with the field components for a few minutes, before it's time to leave (while back in Connecticut, our team members and other parents and mentors are usually watching the webcast). Then we read the game manual on laptops on the ride back to Connecticut, and fully absorb the game (read: browse Chief Delphi non-stop to make sure we somehow didn't overlook something in the rules that others found) until our traditional first build season meeting on Sunday afternoon, followed by our annual Kickoff Pasta Dinner fundraiser.
As a
year-round team (we had 117 team meetings in 2009, not counting competitions or fundraising/community outreach events), we consider
Savage Soccer, VRC, fall FRC offseason competitions, and our pulled-pork fundraisers to be our fall team-building exercises.
