[qhsscience]

Providing we have the satellite link, our team meets for a team breakfast (the works cooked by one of our mentors), then we sit around a few screens and watch the kickoff. Generally, when the kickoff is over, we mull around for a few minutes and then tell everyone to go start reading the rules (no really...read the rules!) in preparation for brainstorming the following Monday. Our adult mentors then get together on Sunday for the purpose of ordering field parts, doing our own brainstorming, eating (again!) and generally making sure that we are ready for Monday. I have found that getting the team together for that first day is not critical, but very worth doing...in fact, we are installing DirectTV this year in our facility so that we CAN meet as a team on that Saturday.