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Originally Posted by Robert Cawthon
Just a thought: We have a kickoff party where almost everyone on the team meets at one of the mentor's house (she has access to the NASA channel on her satelite) and the team members bring breakfast and lunch items. We send the minimum to the kickoff. That allows the team to start brainstorming and reading the manuals.
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Going off of that,
1071 does something similar. We do have a CT Kick-off Closer, but we choose to go all the way to the actual one in N.H.
We send usually a delegation of about 2-3 mentors and 2-3 students. Not only do we get the KOP, but we get to have actual members see and get on the field (I understand those at local kick-off's don't have this opportunity). They then grab the KOP and bring it back on the 3.5 hour Journey Down.
Meanwhile having already a projection set-up going in the lecture hall from our Team-Bonding/Movie Night, the rest of the Team comes into School (in our Uniforms and all Firsted Up like competition). We watch the Kick-Off Broadcast as if we were at a local kick-off event. This year I belive were also inviting a Rookie Team were mentoring. We then call up our delegation in N.H. and ask them any questions we may have about the field that we can't answer by looking at it (for example last year we had questions about the memory foam and what it felt like). We then go home and come-back that night when they arrive to go through the KOP.