Off-Season Events

[Justin Shelley]

My team is thinking about hosting an off-season event in the southeast Missouri area. We were thinking about doing a regular three day long event, and if we do have an off-season event it will most likely be a regular one. On another note though I have thought about having a 24 hour competition like the one mentioned by M.A.R.S, or maybe even a week long event. For the week long event I was thinking having teams build a robot or just drive. Building a robot would be harder but there would be a lot of complications because of the rush. Driving the robot would be awesome but i'm afraid people might get bored of it. The reason i thought about a week long event is because that by the end of an event everyone's robot is extremely better then before. If there was a week long event I was thinking about having dances and other things to keep people entertained. If there ever was a week long event though it would take a lot to plan and a lot of MONEY. So any ideas? and i haven't talked to my mentors about the 24 hour or week long event yet, i wanted more opinions first.