Qotw [11-24-02]: What your team do beside building robot...

[Ken Leung]

Originally posted by Clark Gilbert
In addition to DJ's post, we also do a lot of group building activities for fun. Some of the things include
1.) group trips to Purdue for tours
2.) paintball with our team or against the other Howard County team (#292)
3.) we go bowling
4.) have a Christmas party
5.) we used to go to a Cubs game w/ 111
6.) we have a "new years eve ball drop, kokomo style" that we perform each year for the city
7.) we have team workshops in the offseason that are held by engineers and teachers to keep everyone up to date on the different aspects of FIRST
8.) we used to host our own "mini competition"
9.) we are going to host our 2nd remote kickoff this year
.........and the list goes on and on and on

Thanks Clark. Its great seeing teams do more than just doing trainings and fundraising.

For teams over here, last year after Silicon Valley regional, we would have a party at team 192 Gunn Robotics Team's classroom/workshop, and invited different teams like 100, 814, 840, and others to join the fun.

We also had some sort of social event after the Cal Games (the WRRF local post season competition) where the teams would get together to have dinner and do something fun afterward. Although it was toned down this year, we had Bill Gold, Jon Lawton and 668 people, Caroline and 192 people, Ken Krieger, along with Joe and Amy Ross, Sean Roberts and his dad, and Wendy from 22 from LA. Its always fun having the FIRST-a-holics getting together to do something fun.

Then of course WRRF people get together from time to time after WRRF meetings and get lunch or dinner.


I really hope to see teams from across the country would hang out with other teams more often. It's really good for building up team relationships, and good for showing your team members that it is really ok to hang out with people from other teams. In time, those relationships will build into something cool during build period, and then you will see teams start helping out each other and give each other advices, and during competitions in the pit area as well.


Are there teams out there who do something like this? Social events with other teams?