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Unread 23-06-2010, 09:43
kinghashbrown kinghashbrown is offline
Lead Designer and Team tri-captain
AKA: Joey Fisher
FRC #0176 (Aces High)
Team Role: CAD
 
Join Date: Apr 2010
Rookie Year: 2008
Location: suffield ct
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Re: What to do in the off-season

building things in the off season is always a fun way to spend time. It also gives good opportunity to learn more about designing and build robot mechanisms.

This year my team has build a new kicker. Even though it hasn't actually been used in a competition yet I learned quite a lot designing and then building it.

Over the summer I want to push to return some of the old robots we have to working order. Since we have quite a few up on the top shelf not quite in working order.

During the fall my team is going to make a test bed to prototype on next build season. This also is something kids on my team shall learn from. We plan on getting all the members involved in the planning of it so that we can catch new members and teach them a bit about robots. Nothing teaches better then doing.

We do car washes and pasta dinners during the summer and fall to raise money to offset trip costs for students.

my team goes to a couple off season events during the spring and bash at the beach in the fall. We do demos for our main sponsors and for the towns our team is from. we even take the robot in parades!

We have a picnic to celebrate the end of the school year and to say goodbye to our senior friends.
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