Competitions and Holidays

[Ian W.]

Originally Posted by RoboMom

I think there will many students and adults at the Championship who celebrate Passover, which is a major Jewish holiday and starts on Sat. night, including, hopefully, some of the Israeli teams. This could be a great opportunity to at least do a little Seder. I'm sure that FIRST would be willing to work with anyone who took some initiative. Any ideas? If the group can put together some realistic ideas and suggestions, these could be presented to Bob Hammond. I'll help you deliver the message, if you come up with what you would like to do.

First thing you'd have to do is find out if there's enough people who would attend one. That could mean a simple poll here, or perhaps FIRST sending out an email to all team mentors, and seeing if it's something enough people want to do. If there is a big enough response, then continue with planning a Seder.

For the absolute minimum, you'd need a lot of matzah (I suppose that's a given :-p), and a few "symbols" for lack of a better word, to be placed on the "Seder Plate" (it's basically things to remind you of spring and the whole story of Exodus, as Passover is an agricultural festival as well as religious). It really wouldn't be too hard to plan, but just make sure that people would go to a Seder before someone goes and plans it all out.