When does your team start meeting again?

[Donut]

We do one meeting a week during the fall starting about the second or third week of school (so late August), because no one ever remembers something the first week. Club officers have an additional meeting every week with the teacher sponsor(s) to discuss all the paperwork and plans.

In the spring we do a meeting every day of the week except Sunday during the build season, give everyone a week break after the build season, then meet once a week until the regional (we may meet at people's houses to do extra things too). We usually take a week break after any competition (unless there is something really urgent to discuss), then continue to meet once a week. This continues until school ends. We have an end of the year party at someone's house/bowling alley/etc. in May too.

During this summer the Officers have had meetings once a week, and we plan on having a meeting for all the veteran members before school starts. We haven't had any meetings in past summers so this is something new.

[CityRiot228]

Team 228 has meetings year round! Yay! We love our team!!

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

We have meetings during the summer before IRI, and then participate in the State Fair. However, discluding summer activities, 461 usually meets in the first couple weeks of school, and then we have a team callout for new members.

[santosh]

The CircuitRunners meet year round. We meet to clean up our shop and to go to a ton of outreach events. Then towards the end of the summer, a lot of the leaders, a few parents, and the mentors meet to figure out what went good and what went wrong and how to fix the stuff that went wrong (organizationally).

We start signing up upcoming freshmen at this thing we have called Wildcat Daze a week before school starts. We have our first meeting of the "new year" on the 2nd week of school which this year will be August 22nd.

We never really ever stop.

[amos229]

well 229 starts up in the fall with a series of team building and engineering exercises such as egg drops and such. Its a good way for everyone to get to know each other.

[Freddy Schurr]

Team 204 will start back up in Sept!

[Joe J.]

862 meets year round, during the summer we meet as a smaller group to plan for demonstrations, summer projects & the coming year. We meet as a large group of returning veterans in September after school starts, then a week or two after that we have our recruiting meeting, then we start our regular meetings the rest of the year.

[Romeo1351]

We meet year-round. Our school is doing Little Shop of Horrors for their Fall play, so they want us to build the man-eating plant. That's our fun summer project.

[jakk]

We are starting now. Alumni and mentors made a game for VEX and our team vets meet during the summer to do a "mini competition". Just for team building. We are also doing more skills training with mentors. This is the first time in 6 years we've done this (I think).

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by Romeo1351

We meet year-round. Our school is doing Little Shop of Horrors for their Fall play, so they want us to build the man-eating plant. That's our fun summer project.

Our school did that two years ago; it's an awesome play.

We technically meet all year round, but we aren't really having regular meetings right now. Some of us are helping at the LEGO camps they're running for most of the summer, and we've done a parade and a demonstration within the past week. We're supposed to meet in about two weeks to discuss new members and fall events.

[RoboMadi]

As most of the teams, we meet year round too.
During summer, for those on our team without a job or any other activity, FIRST is their job. They work all summer round working on the projects and planning next year agenda. This summer our team is loaded with three outreach projects, and two building projects.
Other than that we meet every week (Wednesday) year round.

not to mention our team-bonding activities....
This summer it will be Paramount Kings Dominion, Paint-Ball Fight, and Laser-tag 'partay'... :-)

[Lisa Perez]

Like many of the teams previously mentioned, 573 has meetings year-round. The meetings during the school year are more formal and facilitated by usually more than one mentor. During the summer, the students arrange meeting dates at each other's houses (at which recruits are more than welcome to come) where structure for the upcoming year is more or less discussed and recorded to be presented to the mentors.

830 does IRI for the summer, but actual meetings start up in the fall, with workshops presented by the U of M students.

[Josh Murphy]

We usually start our meetings in September on every tuesday. Tuesday is the official team shirt day and meeting days. We meet once a week up to the build season. Some of us are there everyday from september to may because we do O.C.C.R.A in the fall and FIRST in the winter/Spring.

[Jeremiah Johnson]

648 meets year round. There's a full team meeting on the third Tuesday of each month in the summer. Every Tuesday is our programming class and projects. And on Thursdays in June is our cardboard boat building. Then 4th of July is a race and September 10th is a race, both team bonding exercises. We just purchased a Vex kit but I'm not entirely sure what they are doing with that yet b/c I haven't been able to make it to a programming meeting. We start recruiting kinda year round but sporatically. Like Moline was at freshman orientation in May and Sherrard will be at orientation in September and West is... well... who knows when West is.

[MChapman]

We've got meetings all year round, but during the summer its more team bonding things than anything. But when its time to get serious its right before school starts so we can talk recruiting an the important stuff like fundraising for the year.