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Re: How to keep new students entertained?
Although a lot of FIRST is about the learning of science and engineering, we tend to use our Off-Season to spread the FIRST message to the community, but spread a different message within the team. Right when the school year starts we begin to train our new members in safety and some basics like CAD and electrics but the summer is a lot different. In our school we are considered as sport, and as a sport we hold a responsibility to act as a team: a group of people who come together to achieve a certain goal (or multiple goals). We try to spend our summers doing activities that bring us closer together as a team. Cheering on runners at our annual triathlon, or team soccer games/picnics. This gives opportunities for the older leaders of the team to really share experiences/memories with the younger members.
-There is nothing more gratifying than watching you robotics team succeed as a family rather than just a group of people when those 6 weeks begin. My advice would be to try to forge that family.
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