What do your teams do in the offseason?

[Herodotus]

We went to MARC and IRI, and the team is also signed up for Kettering. Aside from competition there are a few things this year in particular that I want to get the team to do. We're losing 6 seniors so next year might be a bit rough. I'm quite sure of the abilities of our underclassmen as we had them do most of the work this past year, but one little project I want to see if we can pull off is building a prototype drive train.

We've never really had the time to build anything extra in the off-season, so there is two reasons to do this. One is to allow the underclassmen more time to work and learn, and the second is to have a drive train design ready for next year, so we can start building the real thing right away, and then use the prototype for building a practice bot(something we've never had the manpower to do).

Finally, we have to get started early this year on getting funding. We were extremely fortunate last year to have the support we did, so I think we have to get started early this year.