What are your Team Traditions?

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by OZ_341

2- For every competition we buy a nice Garden Gnome. If we do well, he lives. If we do poorly, he is sacrificed in a very ungracious and unprofessional manner.

Needless to say, I have spent a small fortune on garden gnomes (I now buy them in bulk to get the volume discount).

[dk5sm5luigi]

Every year our team goes out to see the newest Pixar movie.

[blayde5]

Coke and Mountain Dew fuel our team. All the alumni come back and get some coke from our mentor who keeps a stash with him at all times.

seniors get a special shirt made by some of our girls at the end of the season.

end of the season party with 4 awards for team members.

last 3 days of build are "work till you drop days" usually included is pizza, home-made pasta, or some other yummy food and we end up staying until like 2 AM finishing the robot.

We always dub one rookie the "CR" or competent rookie, basically the one that has enough sense not to screw anything up too badly.

Any problems? Blame electrical lead first.

11/5 or 11/5 is MVRT Day, all members are required to wear their T-shirts.

On weekends, members must come before 1:15 to get snacks at the end of the day.

[Thing2_1723]

1. Before meetings and everyday of build season, we walk or drive to 7-11 right across the street from the school we do our build at. Usually people get double-gulp Mountain Dew, slushies, or Monster.
2. We blow steam and stress off by playing soccer or hacky-sack in the hallways until a janitor comes and yells at us.
3. Saturdays during build involves 10 people per car to go to McDonald's.
4. Everyone participates in the TWSS color game
5. At our "banquet" BBQ that is held at the local spray park, one member must be thrown into the water against their will
6. If someone is wearing flip-flops or mandles, their shoes are stolen and hidden.

[Jeffy]

While we don't have alot of history here, there are a few things I can say are now "traditions"
1. Wearing a silver cowboy hat to either a school dance or the largest mixer our school does: MORP (reverse prom)
2. The after kickoff basketball game
3. This is the first year we have done this, but I want it to become a tradition: Host a kickoff party with the other schools from our district and invite as many people as you can to the kickoff.
4. Another new one for us: the pizza counter, we crossed over 100 pizzas since build day one, this last week in Atlanta.

[Golto]

Our main mentor each year throws a get together over the summer for our mentors, our graduated seniors, and a few others that are essential to our team running.

[fuzzwaz]

-Always visit the CheeseCake Factory while down in Atlanta... YUM!


Those are some pretty nice traditions though. I really like the one about giving your Freshmen gears. I highly doubt tadpoles like gears though....We will just have to wait and see I guess!

Oh, and Congrats on winning Chairmans this year guys!

-OH DONT FORGET! 5.03 (May 3rd) is National Frog Force saves Frogs day!!! YOU BETTER BE SAVING THOSE FROGS!!!!

[Katie_UPS]

-Someone has to wear a tube-skirt
-Making the rookies drink Beverly (its DELICIOUS!)
-Drive team makes UPS with their arms (think Cheerleaders) before every match
-Donuts every saturday morning
-Softball once a week during summer (second year in the running)
-Someone on our team is always allergic to something weird/hard to cater to.
-Someone on the team has a weird nickname (Itchy, Slurpy, Lobo)
-Its the programmer's fault


Most of those are just team quirks though....

[NickE]

Share The Nachos

[kiettyyyy]

Originally Posted by NickE

Share The Nachos

Don't forget about the scraws and qwire!

[kjolana1124]

Originally Posted by Katie_UPS

Making the rookies drink Beverly (its DELICIOUS!)

Oh that is CRUEL

Well, our team has a strange set of traditions, to say it lightly. The one that jumps out the most is our ice/water wars. Normally in our hotel every year, members of our team will plan wars against other members involving ice buckets, water, and sometimes Swedish Fish. It's actually pretty fun.

On that note, we don't travel ANYWHERE without Swedish Fish.

In the past the team would always wear our UberBots polos on travel days (Wednesday before Atlanta, etc.), but this year is the year that the last students to get them are graduating, so that might change.

Our programmer, Taylor, will get searched in the airport. It's as predictable as 177 making it onto Einstein.

After the fact that someone bought me coffee before flying to Atlanta my freshman year, anytime anyone sees me drinking anything that looks at all caffeinated, it's confiscated. Caffeine and I don't mix well...

These are only the few I remember off the top of my head, there's defiantly a lot more.

[dag0620]

Originally Posted by Katie_UPS

-Making the rookies drink Beverly (its DELICIOUS!)

Hehehehe That is the most brillant thing you could do to anyone. :

[onecoolc]

1. There is no work on the Robot on Sunday. Period. This is enforced by our Coach's wife, who wants her husband back once a week.

2. The robot (so far) is named in recognition of a member of the team who has contributed far beyond the call of duty. (Romar for Enmar, and Michelangelo for Mike)

3. An gift of undiscussable nature is thrust upon a team member or mentor late at night the first competition night of our first regional, to be discovered the next morning.

Our team is still really new, so I'm sure we'll make more later. ^^

[Ryan Caldwell]

Every to do list ends with "attach anti-mater dark-energy EMP nano-bot accelerator gun".

We never manage to get to the end of any list though.

[rulesall2]

We only have a few-

1. The advance crew in Atlanta has to eat their Wheaties before each day of competition.

2. The driver always gets picked up by the systems operators before each match in what has become known as "The Lift." (BTW nowhere as cool as 1124's Superman, which we did with them at WPI. If you don't know, they have red capes, and the driver leans down and pretends to fly with his arms sticking straight out, and the systems operator shake the driver's cape to simulate it flapping in the wind.)

3. We play the game Pneumatic tubing at competitions. (Its the game spoons, but we play with pieces of pneumatic tubing because its all we have around.)