Kickoff Procedure?

[Pavan Dave]

We all gather at the kickoff location to watch the webcast. After the webcast the students have a brief meeting with some of the mentors and we talk about the game, past robots, and possible ways to complete the task.

Right after this period we usually split up into groups and discuss robot ideas over lunch. Right after lunch we usually gather and our whole team has to COMPLETELY AGREE on EVERY part of our robot, so if I want a crab drive along with 99% of my team, I will have to convince the remaining 1% to convert OR the other person would present their argument and would either sway us over or we would eventually sway them over.

Than after we have each system figured out we decide who is going to be on what part of the team: controls, programming (formerly a subgroup of controls), upper body, and base. After we break up into these groups and start our building.