What does your team do over the summer?

[Jeremiah Johnson]

I was wondering what kind of work, or play, does your team do? Like community service, fundraising, trips, ect. My team, 648, just finished up with their first of about 5 or 6 community service acts. We did a marsh clean-up and pulled about 100 tires from under a local bridge. That was only about 1/4 of them. We are also planning a Mississippi River clean-up in our area. So, what do you do?


Budda648

[Marygrace]

Lets see, over the summer our team does a lot. We have a banquet for all of our sponsors where we give them an over view of the season, shirts, and a certificate. I think we might give awards to the place that supported us the most. We are planning to have two summer school sessions for middle schoolers to raise money. We are going to be working with lego kits and the edurobotics kits. Basicaly teaching the kids about robotics and advrtising our team so they either plan to join our lego leagues or our tem once they enter high school. We also have meetings for unfinished buisness evry sunaday. During the season we were planning on having a four wheel drive system for our robot. Yeah, umm, that didn't work out. LOL. We are going to perfect and build the design over the summer so we can do it next year. We also plan our goals for how many new members we want next year we start recruiting. We mostly target females to get involved. Umm, what else, total reorganizeation of the cage. (Tool shed within the autoshop) We are going to try to make some kind of program where the team mates check out the tools. Don't know if we can get it working. We also repair the "Champ" (2001 national champion) and jaws (2003 LA finalist robot) for expeditions. I think that is all.

[MissAbi]

This Friday is our team banquet. We give awards to sponsors, mentors, and students and then we all dance till midnight. Coming up we have YpsiPride day which is a big city-wode clean up. I'm not sure what other community service projects we'll be doing, but I know there are at least a few more. We also a lot of demonsrations in the summer. In August is the big Heritage Festival event with 66. 3 days of robots! yay! But I won't be here for it

[DCA Fan]

We like to slack off and relax....j/k

Other than the sponsor banquet and summer school, we're (when I say we I mean me) redoing the website and founding new FLL teams.

[J Flex 188]

train and actually create an animation team!! (all graduated last year)

attract new sponsors by using presentations and demonstrations

team party late june : P

[Jaime648]

We also just finished our team banquet last Wednesday. We handed out many awards to team members.

I got a thong as an award. The story goes.... We were at a party at a members house. When I wasnt looking, the guys, snuck up behind me and gave me a major wedgey. Like pulling me across the lawn and tearing my underwear. So they replaced them. I think it was more embarassing for them to by the thong than for me to go up and recieve it. Also, in Chicago, we "adopted" a member from another team. When we were doing the Electric Slide, a female team member just happened to "cop a feel" on his rear end. And we just happened to get a picture of it. Needless to say, that was her reward.

Budda648

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Oops, that was supposed to be my post not my sister's. She just happened to log in last and I didnt catch it. Sorry.


The Real Budda648

[T967]

Welp...
We have presented on take your kid to work day.
We presented to a children's support organization.
We presented to the school board.
We are trying to organize an end of the year party.
We are going to present to up and coming freshmen to ask for help this summer.
We are going to try and retire our 1st year robot at our city's science center.
We are going to try and have an off-season competition.
And we are going to try to make a device to help a 24 year old quadriplegic do her job.

[Ben B]

Ok lets see,

We are about to start going to new schools to try and start more robotics teams in out area.
We are going to have our team party in June.
We definitely have to start fund raising, we're a couple grand in the hole right now.
Start training and teaching other team members for next year.
Oh yeah, then, if we have time, we will take some time off.

[Jeremiah Johnson]

T967, when are you planning to host an offseason competition?! Team 648 is looking to go to a competition but cant go to IRI because we dont have nough money.

Budda648

[DirtyBird213]

FUND-RAISING!!!
We had our team banquet last week.
We are attending a few invitationals, and hosting our first invitational in October so we will be busy planning that.
We will be presenting our robot to the school board in hopes of getting money budgeted in every year for registration cost.
We are being presented with an achievement award from the NH Senate this month.
We are presenting our robot at the middle school to 8th graders hoping to recruit more students.
Our club is a year round club, so we are always busy!

Oh and we are starting FIRST Lego League this year (how could I forget that!) We already have 1 school signed up, but we are hoping to add 4 more. We have 5 elementary schools just in our town.

[Adam Y.]

Hmm this summer Im going to:
1)learn how to make chain mail
2)build a dohyo
3)find sponsors
4)build robots
If anyone can actually figure out what the first two have to do with robotics I will be very surprised.

[sciencegeek3]

we give presentations all the time and do a small amount of fund raising(thank goodness for great sponsors). we also have sub teams working on projects such as , our chairmans award for next year, our animation, our website, drive train designs, and handling designs, plus orienting incoming ppl to our group