Off Season Training

[Dan Petrovic]

Throughout May up until Battlecry we held drive practice meetings for anyone who wanted to drive. Basically, our robot isn't a very easy robot to drive, so you were required to go to the meetings prior to a certain competition to be able to drive (or copilot whichever one you practiced on).

Since during the school year we have meetings on Fridays, we'd just go into our closet and load up our van with the robot and whatever we may need.

If there are any repairs that need to be done, they are usually minor, so small meetings are held to complete those repairs.

The off-season events are never as serious as the official season. They are more to get the younger kids trained so when they are leading the team they know what to do with the pit, drive team, alliance picking, etc.

We don't go to win, we go to have fun and get the younger kids trained for the official season. We do take some things seriously and have the drive training, but that also teaches the younger kids commitment. If you can't find the time to come to drive practice, you don't get to drive.

People seem to be impressed by the fact that we have many different people driving at one competition.

Then in October, there's River Rage and we use that one to grab onto the freshmen and really get them interested.