[OZ_341]

After 11 years, I am looking back at my time on Team 341 with a slightly nostalgic perspective. I was thinking the other day about Traditions. Traditions are a big part of what unifies a team. On 341 we have so many. Some of them are meaningful and some are just silly, but they all have stuck with us over the years. I think they are all important. Here are some of our traditions :

1- All of our seniors sign the shipping crate after their last competition as a student
2- For every competition we buy a nice Garden Gnome. If we do well, he lives. If we do poorly, he is sacrificed in a very ungracious and unprofessional manner.
3- Students are allowed to interrupt my meetings to tell me its 3:41 PM. (This one is really annoying.)
4- We give each new member a gear necklace at the end of their rookie year, to signify that they have earned their wings.
5- Every December 6th or 7th we have a team building night to celebrate the 341st day of the year.
6- If we win a blue banner, a coach has to wear our Daisy Pot Outfit
7- At the team banquet we have a memory box. Each senior leaves something behind that will “help” the students they are leaving behind. Usually its something that says something about the student (a favorite pair of safety glasses, a technical manual, used rolls of electrical tape, daisy band-aids…)
8- When you lift the robot together, you never count off 1-2-3. Its always "3-4-1"

That is all I can think of for now. So what are your traditions?