-Mentors eat first. This is to make sure that they actually come out of the shop to eat, and that the student's don't eat all of the food before the mentors decide to venture out.
-Freshman year, I asked a junior if he wanted my meat, referring to the meat off of the sub that I had grabbed for dinner (I'm a vegetarian). Of course, high school guys will be high school guys, and I still always get teased for it and it's innuendos. It always comes up during dinner at build season.
-If the robot gets dented, it gets a band-aid put on it. The only reason this year's robot doesn't have one on it is because we can't add as many as we need to while still making the weight limit for offseasons
-If it's not black and yellow or some other team's swag, you're not wearing it at competitions. It's more of a team rule, but it's kind of a tradition.
-Our build mentors always seem to have an addiction to Diet Coke. All of them. We like to hide the bottles, sometimes, to see if they notice.
-The team goes out to dinner one night after each competition. Whether it's Friday or Saturday night depends on the event (if we're travelling, it's Friday, if it's a "home" event, we go out on Saturday)
-If anyone's birthday falls on competitions, they get a cake. With yellow on it somewhere (last year, we put yellow flowers on the cake, this year was just yellow frosting).
-It happened for the first time this year, but I have the feeling that our rendition of "
99 Bottles of Dew" from Traverse City will become a longstanding tradition [:
"End of the year" picnic:
-Captains give out certificates to team members (paper plate awards without using paper plates!)
-Next year's captains are officially announced, as well as the next year's group leaders.
-Tackle tag is played. ALWAYS. It's like tag, but you're not "it" until the current "it" touches your shoulders to the ground. Also, you don't wear shoes.
-Any girltalk occurs in the ladies bathroom in the building we've had our parties in for the past few years. It doesn't happen out in the open.
-It's not a tradition yet, but it will become one: throwing a tampon at a freshman (it's a LONG story).
I know we have a lot more, but I don't remember what they are D: