When Do Meetings Start for Your Team?

[daniel_dsouza]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

Our meetings officially start only a week or two after school starts... which means, pretty soon! I guess it's time for us to figure out what we'll be doing this fall...

Same here! Looks like we'll being doing FLL again this year, and also participating in the VEX competition.

[ttldomination]

Our team has a pretty good set up for starting up the program and bringing it in sync with school, and it usually happens in the first 1-3 weeks of school starting.

The goal in the first 1-3 weeks is to get the rookies in. There are been emails flying around about plans for the fall VEX event and off-season FRC events, but until the rookies get in, there's not too much to do.

The first meeting is the veterans meeting (1-2 weeks). Returning veterans are asked to come to a meeting where the goal is simply to work off the summer social rust, let the summer high-fives settle, and get people on the same page as far as the rookie presentation and general season guidelines.

The second meeting is the rookie meeting (held one week after veterans meeting). New members and a select number of veterans are asked to put on a show for the new members, at which point new members are fed with information.

After the rookie meeting, the team settles into a routine. The VEX teams are formed and everyone focuses on that until competition.

- Sunny G.

[ebarker]

August, 2003

[jwallace15]

Our school starts the day after the US holiday of Labor Day, and the frequency of our team meetings changes throughout the year. Officially, our team functions year-round (with miscellaneous community service projects, fundraising opportunities, etc.) During the summer meetings are spread out, perhaps once a month (with optional meetings for our pit crew before and after demos to do a little troubleshooting and adjusting). September consists of full team meetings every other week. October usually has weekly meetings. November and December are the months when our meeting count picks up- with semi-weekly meetings. January and february after the FRC kick-off: if you are on our build team, you will be working 5-6 days a week, sometimes 7. After the ship date, we have 3 meetings a week until worlds. After worlds, we go back to our summer schedule.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Team 1058 meets weekly throughout the summer and twice a week starting in October. That is also the same time we invite freshman to join our team, so I guess it is a really the "start" of our year

[kiasam111]

Our team meets at least weekly all year round. We don't really have an off-season, it's just busy all year round!

[JaneYoung]

We've begun meeting for the 2012/2013 season and we're very excited about it. We're challenging ourselves and I'm really looking forward to seeing how it all rolls out through the semesters.

All the best, teams!

Jane