Off Season

[Carrara]

Hello First Partners...

I just want to Know what are you doing in Off Season...

Projects,
working on 2010 robot
working on chairman's

what are you doingg

Thanks


Carrara....

[R.C.]

1323 is:

-Teaching new members
-Thanking Sponsors
-Raising Money
-Working with other teams
-Hosting an Offseason Regional (info will up soon, week or so)
-Machining crazy stuff out
-Prototyping
-Getting Community involved and Presentations

Last but not least, having fun.

-RC

[ehochstein]

Team #2470 has many projects including fundraising and making two robots for the special education department in our district.

[ExarKun666]

Our team has several plans during the offseason:
1) Continue our FLL Summer Camp [teaching kids about lego robotics]
2) Build our knowledge in programming for the FRC robot both in C/C++ and Java
3)Work on our team's Chairman's Award
4)Get more Community Outreach
5) Find more: Funds, Mentors, and Sponsers
6) [possibly] build small robots for practice (not lego)

That's team 2429's plans thus far!

[gorrilla]

1557's off season

(1.) 3 off-season comps.

(2.) Building our crab drive.

(3.) Raising money and preparing for next season.
(includes community outreach and all that stuff)

[delsaner]

What the team is doing:
1) recruiting 8th graders to join next year
2) finding sponsors
3) presenting our robot to the general public
4) off-season events
5) hosting an official FLL regional

What my friend and I plan on doing
1) Start a team in a neighboring town
2) help mentor a neighboring team

*there may be more. I'll edit this post if I forget any.*

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Carrara

working on 2010 robot

You do know that it's often been against the rules to begin building an assembly that goes on the final robot before build season, right? I imagine you meant prototyping or something rather than working directly on the robot.

In that case, yes, Team 1714 is designing and building a crab drive chassis, to gain knowledge for use on future robots. ^_^

We're up to our eyeballs in demos and projects. From what I can tell, everyone wants to do more (no pun intended) every year, so basically at this rate in 2015 we will need to build a robot to do all of the work we want to do :/

On top of a crab drive robot, we're building a customized cart (with more underglow, more polycarbonate, and more room for safety equipment), learning LabView, building a Vex version of our battery charging station, reorganizing the entire shop, demoing, more demoing, getting the 2008 robot running for driving practice, CRI, IRI...

I guess the idea is that if we're this busy in the off season, build season will be no sweat at all ^_^

[Zholl]

I'm personally stuck working, but at least right now we've got several of our guys running several weeks worth of robotics camp for middle schoolers with the lego mindstorms system. Hopefully the schools that are hosting the camps will have FLL teams in the coming season as well

[IKE]

1. Comps (MARC, IRI, Kettering?)
2. Demos (schools, TARDEC/IGVC, others)
3. Charity stuff (Hunger walks, other charities)
4. Team building (Picnic, Inteviews for next year).
5. FIRST stuff (working on some ideas)
6. Fundraising (looking, did anyone else no a recession is going on?)

[JaneYoung]

For my part,
I'm helping re-organize and clean in the storage area for robot and competition materials. I'll be up in the loft helping decide what stays and what goes. This may not be a good plan, I'll come up with more ideas of what to make and what we can do, therefore needing even more storage space and ideas.

I also hope to visit a couple of last year's newer teams in our area and offer help and support in any areas they would like. I'd love to hear their stories of how they think the 2009 year went. When I did have a chance to talk with them during build, there were already some pretty awesome and fun stories.

[MrForbes]

National Underwater Robotics Challenge

both helping the NERDS (mostly hands off) and our own small team

[BrendanB]

Mayhem is:

Demoing our robot.
Finishing a crab drive which began in January(and planning on building a second robot).
Competing in off-season events(WPI, Mayhem in Merrimack, and others in the fall).
Fund raising.
Every year in build season we say that we should work on Chairmans in the fall but i don't believe we will do it this year.
And enjoying the summer.

[Mr. Pockets]

To my knowledge our list includes:

-Relocate all of our worldly possessions to the other school on the team.
-Finish up the locker cleanout project.
-Find sponsors
-Try to switch our shooter bot to a dumper bot (not sure if that's actually going to happen though)
-Hold a LAN party
-Go to Kettering in the fall
-Train our new recruits
-Fundraise (or at least try)
-Enjoy summer (or at least count down the days until the end)

There's probably stuff that I missed too.

[J93Wagner]

Team 93 is not doing much until the fall when the team gets back together . Although there is a team forum to discuss ideas and communicate announcements for anything that will be done over the summer. Like a weekend trip to the local children's museum to show off our robot and FLL stuff.