Best Pre-Season Meeting Ideas

[holygrail]

After several years of mentoring and coaching, I'm taking over the head-coaching responsibilities for our team next year. I couldn't be more excited about it! I am lucky that I have inherited a successful and well-run team and I look forward to continuing that tradition.

So here is my question. What are the best pre-season meetings and/or activities you can remember having on your team? I'm looking not just for what the meeting was about, but about how the meeting was run that made it so exciting and fun.

In the past we have done mock kickoffs for made-up games, programming meetings, drive-train meetings, lots of safety meetings and meetings getting ready for competitions and demos, among other things. For this year, I'm considering offering a VEX challenge where the students break down a game and design VEX robots. I'm just looking for any other ideas that might really help take us to the next level.

My other hope in doing this post is to create a coaching resource for other teams, so don't be shy.