Team Workshops (Mechanical)

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Well, the year has begun and our influx of new team members has finally leveled out. As such, our team decided that this week may be a good time to start department workshops. Being Co-Captain for the mechanical department, it is my job to come up with a schedule for a workshop to occur on Thursday, 22 of September.
Build leadership will have 2 1/2 hours to work with the new students (and, for that matter, veteran members), during which time we would like to cover all of the basics required to work on an FRC bot. The goal is to gauge interest in the new students and find appropriate subsystems for them to work on. After what should be a 15-20 minute safety lecture, we would like to brief them on build season and competition, etc.
After that, it is really somewhat open.
What are some successful activities other teams have implemented? We may set up stations (Electrical, CAD, minibot (tetrix?), etc.), though I do not know how valuable that may be.