The hype train departs...

[swaxman12345]

Hey everyone! I know this post isn't very rich in substance but it'd be cool if everyone could comment what they're doing for kickoff tomorrow. I hope everyone has an amazing time and I'm sure chief delphi will be lit up tomorrow.

I can start: My team is hosting a kickoff event at a local university. If you're going to UMD tomorrow, I'll see you then.

[AdamHeard]

Oh, I thought this was a thread about 1678.

[The_ShamWOW88]

Hosting!

If you'll be at Assabet Valley RTHS tomorrow, we'll see you there!!!

[jodge1706]

We aren't hosting other teams but were watching the stream on our newly build field XD. This will be followed by intense brainstorming and prototyping initial ideas

[rsisk]

Watching these videos on a continuous loop

Battle of the Brains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dyfWd7563Y

Roboleague
https://vimeo.com/139506546

[lucas.alvarez96]

My team will be hosting the only unofficial kickoff event in Chile

[Anteprefix]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Oh, I thought this was a thread about 1678.

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[Billfred]

I'll be presenting a workshop tomorrow and serving as Kickoff coordinator for South Carolina's event.

And then, you know, Robot in 3 Days because we weren't doing enough.

[SenorZ]

We'll be playing FRC Kickoff Bingo... if my team gets me the hilarious bingo board file they showed me.

[GreyingJay]

We're going to be at an unofficial kickoff event at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. One of our mentors will be at an official event in Montreal to pick up our kit.

[SoulianPride]

My team hosts a kickoff out of our high school. I'm running a workshop on HTML and CSS from 8-10 and then watching the broadcast. After that it's lunch and helping out with the Rookie Quick Build and getting everyone a copy of the game manual.

Then? Go home and read the rules as we have intense strategy meeting on Sunday and a test over the rules to see who did their homework.

[NShep98]

Originally Posted by The_ShamWOW88

Hosting!

If you'll be at Assabet Valley RTHS tomorrow, we'll see you there!!!

I won't be there myself, but some reps from my team will be.

[TikiTech]

We will be hosting our annual unofficial kickoff for the Big Island teams.

Since the official kickoff is on another island we decided a few years ago to start hosting these. A great way for us to help, inspiration is everything!

The original kickoff video is at 5:30am HST so we try to let as many as we can get the last bits of sleep in.. Though we all know the mentors were up watching it live .

Our event runs from 9am to 6pm

There will be the kickoff video with breakfast.
Manuals will be printed and distributed to all in attendance.
Then rules review and discussion afterwards there will be a game rules test.
Afterwards teams will rotate through various workshops including but not limited to:
Field construction, game analysis, programming, mechanical design, prototyping, human robot, drive practice with previous robots and much more.

Still finishing up the workshop setup, later today we have a long session to get ready with a team building sleep over. (no actual sleep will probably occur)

Looking forward to great season, good luck to all!

Aloha

[221Sarahborg]

I get the honor of going to our local Kickoff at Garmin to pick up the KOP after watching the livestream before heading back to school. Our team is on our own this year but we are trying Kickoff differently by adapting the ideas of another team's methods to our own. My friend and I might also reorganize our tool chest after we did a massive cleaning haul today.

[MikLast]

The plan:

12:00-5:15: not sleep due to exitement
5:15-7:00 get ready/go to school/have manuals for me ready/go to the EWU kickoff in Cheney
7:30-TBD: kickoff

After that i become the connection from my team to the interwebs as nobody seems to use CD besides me. I also become the rules master (as i spend all day every day reading the manual to have it a part of my soul, and more because i am super good at computers and working with documents and expect me to find the answer before them.)