Multiple Regionals

[Marcel]

I honestly would rather go to Las Vegas this year and Nationals if possible. But if RamTech does decide to go to two regionals than I'd rather have the Orlando and Las Vegas regionals.

Now the nationals are cool and all but I don't know whats wrong with the spirit in my team when we go there, it was a bit iffy last year, but the scouting was fun for me and I loved the team social. Most of the time I was in the pit area so I don't know how much we cheered in the stands because usually it was fun but I'm not sure according to what I heard from some people. o.o

[Nica F.]

Truthfully, two regionals & nats are ideal for a team.

Last year, i went to nats, LA (our home reg.), New England Regional to volunteer, and GTR. They're GREAT experiences i wouldnt trade for anything in the world. But the workload given to catch up can be too much to handle sometimes especially with those back to back trips.

For our team, we go to our teachers before each of trips and get all work that will be assigned for that week. Our mentor makes our last day of our trip "homework day" and thats where we get a lot of it done. We are also encouraged to do it on the plane rides. As for tests, our mentors with us offer the teachers to give us the tests during the trip.

But i strongly encourage members to not go on more than the amount of trips they can keep up with because the workload given to catch up can be too much to handle sometimes.

[mandraque]

one of the problems with our team last year (at nationals) was that we had a lot of young people, and we were doing really bad. So they got all emotional and depressed and stuff and stoped trying to cheer, this affected everyone else as well. So all the leaders just left to play soccer....well it wasnt the rightest(?) thing to do but it was fun...most of the fun i have had with the team have been non-FIRST related. One thing I do want to happen this year is that our team tries to involve people more, then maybe team "spirit" would improve.

[Marcel]

Originally Posted by RAWRimaPANDA

Truthfully, two regionals & nats are ideal for a team.

Last year, i went to nats, LA (our home reg.), New England Regional to volunteer, and GTR. They're GREAT experiences i wouldnt trade for anything in the world. But the workload given to catch up can be too much to handle sometimes especially with those back to back trips.

For our team, we go to our teachers before each of trips and get all work that will be assigned for that week. Our mentor makes our last day of our trip "homework day" and thats where we get a lot of it done. We are also encouraged to do it on the plane rides. As for tests, our mentors with us offer the teachers to give us the tests during the trip.

But i strongly encourage members to not go on more than the amount of trips they can keep up with because the workload given to catch up can be too much to handle sometimes.

Yah alot of the time we do pretty much the same thing, you know get our homework and do it while we go to the regional or while we're at the hotel, and sometimes we do it after we get back, but alot of people also have AP and it's hard to go on even one trip you know, but in the end we always get it together.

[wedellm]

Our team, for the first time in 2006, attended 2 regionals (Arizona, Denver). This year we plan on attending 2 regionals depending on funding. We are hoping to attend either the Orlando or L.A. regional as our first, and going back to Denver to defend our title. We feel that having more exposure (especially east coast exposure) might help us the next time we attend nationals. We feel as a team, the lack of exposure caused us not to be selected for the Galileo finals in 2006 (even though we were 15th out of 84 teams). Good luck teams in 2007.