50 Days Until Kick-off 2012!

[akoscielski3]

Well, we're here! 50 more days until kick-off and FRC teams are mostly signed up for competitions/championships, submitting awards, fundraising, and building their Teams!

What kind of stuff is your team doing to get ready for the 2012 season?

Some of the stuff my team (772!) is doing:
- Building an off-season chassis as a prototype
- Creating a new business plan
- Fundraising by putting on dances for the grade 7/8's
- Programmers are currently learning how to program in C++, and doing the BETA testing
- Electrical is learning the uses of Pneumatic, how to set up pneumatic systems and how to correctly wire a Robot
- Mechanical is learning how to design in SolidWorks
- Animating the Safety Animation

This year we are signed up for Greater Toronto Regional West, Smoky Mountains Regional (Tennessee), Queen City Regional (Cincinnati), And FIRST Championships!! (total of 58 hours of driving! :$)

[rabridges]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

Well, we're here! 50 more days until kick-off and FRC teams are mostly signed up for competitions/championships, submitting awards, fundraising, and building their Teams!

What kind of stuff is your team doing to get ready for the 2012 season?

Some of the stuff my team (772!) is doing:
- Building an off-season chassis as a prototype
- Creating a new business plan
- Fundraising by putting on dances for the grade 7/8's
- Programmers are currently learning how to program in C++, and doing the BETA testing
- Electrical is learning the uses of Pneumatic, how to set up pneumatic systems and how to correctly wire a Robot
- Mechanical is learning how to design in SolidWorks
- Animating the Safety Animation

This year we are signed up for Greater Toronto Regional West, Smoky Mountains Regional (Tennessee), Queen City Regional (Cincinnati), And FIRST Championships!! (total of 58 hours of driving! :$)

That is pretty much what my team is doing.

1. Training every (new and old)
2. Learning CAD
3. Getting sponsors
4. Ordering parts
5. Getting the lab set up
6. Organizing the room, the computers, etc.
7. Deciding where to stuff the programmers
8. Stocking up on sleep for the 2012 season
9. Searching for new mentors! Anyone in the San Jose area interested?
10. Finishing this list of what to do in the final days.

[Tetraman]

174 is doing some really awesome things.

1 - Seminars for the greenhorns as well as a refreshers for all the team members.
2 - Restructuring the way we train our team drivers/human player/coach.
3 - Restructring the design process
4 - Gathering some information from former students on what they think about the team and how it works.
5 - Prototyping a new chassis type.
6 - Buying some extra parts that we wouldn't usually buy this early in the season.
7 - Getting sleep.

[Peyton Yeung]

Team 45 is
Building a prototype drivetrain
Beta testing in Labview
Building a new pit/layout
Training new members
Getting harrassed by the business lead about Chairmen's

[Josh Drake]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

Well, we're here! 50 more days until kick-off...

Some people count down to Christmas.... January 7th is this years Christmas!
See you in Tennessee

[nssheepster]

Originally Posted by Tetraman

174 is doing some really awesome things.

1 - Seminars for the greenhorns as well as a refreshers for all the team members.
2 - Restructuring the way we train our team drivers/human player/coach.
3 - Restructring the design process
4 - Gathering some information from former students on what they think about the team and how it works.
5 - Prototyping a new chassis type.
6 - Buying some extra parts that we wouldn't usually buy this early in the season.
7 - Getting sleep.

Don't forget about practicing, Tetraman. We can always use practice. Trying to code some line sensors today...

[akoscielski3]

Originally Posted by DRAKE2751

Some people count down to Christmas.... January 7th is this years Christmas!
See you in Tennessee

Your right! I Don't know about you but i really dont care about christmas compared to this years kick-off

[Ross3098]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

Your right! I Don't know about you but i really dont care about christmas compared to this years kick-off

Ditto
The suspense for this years game is killing me.

[akoscielski3]

Originally Posted by Ross3098

Ditto
The suspense for this years game is killing me.

Well atleast i Know im not alone XD

[MichaelBick]

I am so excited also, as this is the first year we actually have a CAD team, and their will be a lot of pressure on us in the first week.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Tubatroopa

Team 45 is...

* providing much of the support for the new City of FIRSTs FLL Qualifying Tournament
* building a robot crate for rookie FRC team #3940
* refurbishing the New Years light ball
* earning sponsorship credit by doing small jobs for AndyMark

[BJC]

Team 33 has/is:

-competed in 4 offseason events (MARC, IGVC, IRI, Kettering Kickoff)
-competed in OCCRA (Oakland Community Competitive Robotics Association) which just finished up today.
-competing in the 2011 game: Vex Gateway (three teams)
-Demoing the robot in lots of places/events.
-Will be in a parade with teams 245 and 201.
-training new members
-Beta testing Labview
-Building a prototype drivetrain
-Further developing code on the new drivetrain
-Aquiring new sponsors and maintaining old ones.
-cleaning
-working on our website
-starting up our Chairmen's Award Submission
-stocking up on materials for 2012

Keepin' busy, Bryan

[SenorZ]

I can already feel the fatigue and lack of sleep coming on.
It's going to be sweet.

[rsisk]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

* providing much of the support for the new City of FIRSTs FLL Qualifying Tournament
* building a robot crate for rookie FRC team #3940
* refurbishing the New Years light ball
* earning sponsorship credit by doing small jobs for AndyMark

why building the crate? Is everything B&T this year? I have a slightly used crate I will sell you cheap ;>