Team Bonding Events

[David Kelly]

How many other teams out there hold Team Bonding Events? I know that Wildstang hosts an event at a Cubs game and that we are going to be bonding with Technokats (45) and Full Metal Jackets (393) this summer. So, what other teams bond with each other?

[Pamela]

My team works side by side with Nashua, team 151 most of the season so we are pretty well bonded. After competitions and stuff we usually go out to dinner with them also. All teams should bond more, the connections you make, the things you learn, and the way you learn to share make everything so much more fun!

[Bill Gold]

My team has been in close contact with Vintage HS (232) since the 2000 competition in San Jose, and we've gotten to know GRT (192) a lot better this year. We're planning on getting together with GRT this summer.

[Matt Leese]

We're trying for more bonding events in the future but then again we were lucky just to have a team this year. We're blessed with the fact that team's 191, 211, and 340 are all so near by. Many of the students actually know students from the other teams in the area which really is nice. Rochester teams in general tend to bond pretty well (anyone who heard us chanting "Rochester" at NJ should know that ).

Matt who hopes he doesn't get in trouble because he's posting from work....

[mike o'leary]

matt is a prime example of a good firster/first-a-holic:
posting from work and hoping not to get in trouble
kudos matt
mike who would be posting from work, if he had a job
...hmmm i gotta get one of those

[Leon Machado IV]

We do little one day competitions like mag-lev cars, egg drops, and rat-trap racers. Something that might take from 4 or so in the afternoon to maybe 8-9 at night. We order pizza, invite the engineers and compete within small teams against one another. We steal ideas from one another, we give ourselves deadlines, limited supplies, we make the kids beg from other teams for different items. Really all of the 6 weeks compressed into about 4-5 hours. It's rather amazing.

[Katie Atiyeh]

Hi,
I am from Buzz Aces High is our sister team, last year we invited them to our school, and introduced ourselves to the kids on their team. It was awesome, bye the end of the night we took all of our yellow and black balls and we were all playing dodge ball in our gymnasium, that was a fun "bonding experience" we had a great time.
-Katie Atiyeh

[A. Leese]

Team bonding events aren't exactly something my team has ever really participated in. The closet FIRST team to us is our sister team, Team #179, about an hour away in West Palm Beach. Each year we try to hold a mini-competition at Pratt&Whitney (which sponsors both teams) on Take Your Child to Work Day, but it has never really happened. Maybe three years ago we were successful. I'm not sure. I wish we did more bonding with their team or had teams that were located closer to us. Oh well.

~Angela who just realized that there is only one team in the counties next to hers

[Jessica Boucher]

Theres weird little things that ties all the Litchfield Cty & NW CT teams together...

On 237, our "sustenance coordinator" (person who sets up the food schedule for the 6 wks) Stacy & her father have a lot of relatives on other teams. Stacy's grandfather is on team 38 (Nonnebots), and the Nonnebots were the ones who introduced Watertown to FIRST.

Stacy's cousin Jaime is on team 228, GUS from Wolcott/Meriden.

Team 716, from Falls Village, CT...their HS is where our team leader, Mr. Pallokat, went to school when he was that age.

Plus, one of our previous math teachers who left Watertown for Cheshire wants to start a team over there.......

And the list goes on & on........

[ColleenShaver]

Our team is bonded, if nothing else, by the fact that people come from so many different teams to WPI and then they have connections still with all those teams. Then many people of our team start becoming friends with our old teammates and it makes for goodfun

And our team bonds with each other through playing CRUD, as is to be expected

[Carolyn Duncan]

My team from last year, 495, didn't do anything with other teams. I, on the other hand, did. I spend time with people from other teams and even went to team 122's end of the season picnic. One of the mentors, unfortunately the one we had to have to keep the team, was not very receptive to the idea of making friends with other teams. Oh, well. Her loss. I'd love to hang out with other teams though. I'll be living in Virginia until August. I moving to Florida for a year to establish residency and get in-state tuition next fall. If anyone's in either area and wants to do something let me know.
C~ya,
Carolyn

[Madison]

We've got a good 20 teams on Long Island. . .

I don't think that anyone's ever held any sort of team-bonding event, though it might be something that's worth looking into. I'm afraid, though, that none of the teams are really well established, and that we don't possess the resources to do something like that.

Beyond that, we exchange knowledge and help whereever we can. The advisors on a few of our teams are close, and we'll occasionally get a visitor from another team in to look at what's going on. . . there's still a bit of secrecy there, too, though.

Does anyone else from Long Island that posts to CD want to work on getting something together, now that it's been brought up?

[Andrew Rudolph]

Down here in miami and the south florida area we are good friends and all root for eachother. We used to have Mayhem in miami where we all got together but not this year. Last year this big volleyball game started before the days matches started using the goals as the net and a yellow or black ball for the volleyball

Andrew

[JVN]

Team bonding?
We're friendly enough at the competitions but we're way up here by ourselves. Team 250 is the ONLY FIRST team in the entire NY Capital District. I guess we're not good at spawning...

We do have former members on Clarkson (229) and NorthEastern (125) though.


~John, who thinks 250 is the lonliest number...

[Marc P.]

Originally posted by Jessica Boucher
Theres weird little things that ties all the Litchfield Cty & NW CT teams together...

On 237, our "sustenance coordinator" (person who sets up the food schedule for the 6 wks) Stacy & her father have a lot of relatives on other teams. Stacy's grandfather is on team 38 (Nonnebots), and the Nonnebots were the ones who introduced Watertown to FIRST.

Team bonding is a good thing. I still remember the "lock in" of 2000, in which Sie-H20-Bots (237) and Nonnebots (38) got together in 38's space for a inter-team sleep over. We spent the night watching movies on a projector with a decent sound system, half of us nerds brought our computers and played lan games, and ate food, telling our FIRST horror stories. It was great fun, and i think all left with a close feeling of the meaning of FIRST and friendship. That year, Nonnebots and Sie-H20-Bots cheered for each other at the regionals as though they were one in the same team.

It was great fun, and I hope we can arrange something like that again sometime.

Marc
Nonnebots (38)