Kick-off lock-in

[Alaina]

Originally Posted by Chris Bright

Hey our team was thinking about doing a lock-in at our school after kick-off to get a really good start on this year's game. Has anyone done this? If so how did it turn out?

The difficult part about that would be getting district/administrative approval. But other than that it would be great. I would love to do something like that with my team, but my school doesn't like us very much. Our teachers are totally stingy on their tasks as mentors, so they definitely wouldn't want to "waste" their saturday night away in school...

I guess if you can't get in at your school you can just all stay at somebody's house...sounds just as fun...

[Lisa Perez]

We'd like to, but seeing that FINALS (!!!!) are in two days from Kickoff, it doesn't look like we will be...

[Alex Golec]

Originally Posted by Alaina

The difficult part about that would be getting district/administrative approval. But other than that it would be great. I would love to do something like that with my team, but my school doesn't like us very much. Our teachers are totally stingy on their tasks as mentors, so they definitely wouldn't want to "waste" their saturday night away in school...

The difficulties we have with our own school is having a staff member there to be a babysitter- our teachers are not very involved with the program yet. All nighters at our workplace are a bit easier to go though- just make sure it stays fairly safe. The workload gets stressful during the evening, but then after 1am everyone just calms down and its like instant fun. However, I would not recommend doing a allnighter (how you say in your region- "a lahck- een?") for the first day of FIRST- might get a bit stressful with the designs and thought process, and I'm sure some parents might even attempt to 'prevent' their kids from staying- to crazy an impression too soon. But whatever you end up doing, its bound to be awesome. And don't forget to feed the people! We'd always be walking around at midnight wondering where the snacks were.

Just as coincidence- the synonyms 'lock-in' and 'all-nighter' just remind me of the nationwide conflict between 'pop' and 'soda'. I happen to do all-nighters and drink pop.

_Alex

[Jay H 237]

Originally Posted by Alaina

The difficult part about that would be getting district/administrative approval. But other than that it would be great. I would love to do something like that with my team, but my school doesn't like us very much. Our teachers are totally stingy on their tasks as mentors, so they definitely wouldn't want to "waste" their saturday night away in school...

I guess if you can't get in at your school you can just all stay at somebody's house...sounds just as fun...

K.Shaw and Elgin didn't mention this but we have a similar problem so the lock-in is held off school property. Trying to get the school would be almost impossible and if we did we would have to pay for custodial coverage the whole time we're there. We would actually be paying overtime for the custodians. The school board is aware of our lock-in but they have no say because it's not on school property and none of the faculty members attend. Think of it similar to holding a birthday party.
Since none of the teachers involved with our team attend, for the adults we have several parents of the students and mentors like Elgin, me and a few others for supervision.

[Pierson]

This idea was kicked around, however, since my team is a west coast team, we get up at 5AM to go to drive to the remote kickoff site. Then we caravan back to the build-site, eat lunch, break into groups to think about the game, and everyone is pretty spent by 4PM so everyone is sent home to brainstorm and come back the next day refreshed!

[Chris Bright]

I don't think it will be to hard to get district approval, Our student council has lock-ins just before homecoming week to decorate. I don't think we will be doing much brainstorming. I think the idea was to start thinking about the game, but mostly have workshops and a movies.

[Wetzel]

I think starting the season off with a lock-in is a bad idea. You will likely endup sleep deprived by the end of the season, no reason to start off the season that way. I do like the idea of one in December though. It would be a good team building excercise.


Wetzel

[K.Shaw]

well liek i said you can also have a lock in well in advance like we are having ours 3 weeks before kick off...its just a time when the team can bond and get to know each other more since you will be spending a whole lot of time with these strangers!

[Courtneyb1023]

all we need to have a lock in is a building permit and permission slips from everyone who is going...doesn't sound too tough!

[K.Shaw]

good luck!.....for us it would be thousands of dollars and all that other stuff you said

[Courtneyb1023]

For the lock in, we plan to do a bunch of team building type activities also. so far we have ideas like flashlight tag, and capture the flag..things like that. if you have any other ideas for fun team games, i would appreciate your ideas. thanks!