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Re: What are your Team Traditions?

We always enjoy the bus rides to our "distant" competitions (NJ is our home regional that we go to every year, the others have been palmetto, buckeye, GTR, palmetto again, and virginia) - movies, HW, sleeping, and the occasional dance party .

We also do an end-of-the-year picnic, where we give out some awards for notable things that happened over the year - we try to give every senior one but also to some underclassmen.

Every Wednesday night is Davey's night - the head chef at a local restaurant (up the road from our high school) is a team parent and they've been providing dinner for us for a few years now. EVERYONE stays for dinner on Davey's nights .

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Re: What are your Team Traditions?

-Mentors eat first. This is to make sure that they actually come out of the shop to eat, and that the student's don't eat all of the food before the mentors decide to venture out.

-Freshman year, I asked a junior if he wanted my meat, referring to the meat off of the sub that I had grabbed for dinner (I'm a vegetarian). Of course, high school guys will be high school guys, and I still always get teased for it and it's innuendos. It always comes up during dinner at build season.

-If the robot gets dented, it gets a band-aid put on it. The only reason this year's robot doesn't have one on it is because we can't add as many as we need to while still making the weight limit for offseasons

-If it's not black and yellow or some other team's swag, you're not wearing it at competitions. It's more of a team rule, but it's kind of a tradition.

-Our build mentors always seem to have an addiction to Diet Coke. All of them. We like to hide the bottles, sometimes, to see if they notice.

-The team goes out to dinner one night after each competition. Whether it's Friday or Saturday night depends on the event (if we're travelling, it's Friday, if it's a "home" event, we go out on Saturday)

-If anyone's birthday falls on competitions, they get a cake. With yellow on it somewhere (last year, we put yellow flowers on the cake, this year was just yellow frosting).

-It happened for the first time this year, but I have the feeling that our rendition of "99 Bottles of Dew" from Traverse City will become a longstanding tradition [:

"End of the year" picnic:
-Captains give out certificates to team members (paper plate awards without using paper plates!)
-Next year's captains are officially announced, as well as the next year's group leaders.
-Tackle tag is played. ALWAYS. It's like tag, but you're not "it" until the current "it" touches your shoulders to the ground. Also, you don't wear shoes.
-Any girltalk occurs in the ladies bathroom in the building we've had our parties in for the past few years. It doesn't happen out in the open.
-It's not a tradition yet, but it will become one: throwing a tampon at a freshman (it's a LONG story).

I know we have a lot more, but I don't remember what they are D:
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Re: What are your Team Traditions?

Our team has some pretty odd ones...

- Before every match when teams are introduced, the driver and operator must chest bump. This is because at roboprom in 2009, our senior driver and a member of 1124 tried to chest bump during a song. Our senior was about 2 feet taller than her, and as they went up for the bump, she fell backwards, landed flat on her back, with him falling on top of her.

- At least one night during our away regionals, our team has "Monster Pong" in one of our hotel rooms. 48 cans of Monster are brought, and teams of 2 compete against eachother in a variation of the game "Beer Pong". As far as I know, we have yet to finish all 48 cans in one night.

- In Atlanta, it was a tradition that each of us would order a Chick-Fil-A milkshake for breakfast each day at the CNN Center.

- On our way to each competition, some of our members always try to sing "Aces High" by Iron Maiden to get the team pumped up. Unforetunately, this one never caught on, as most of the people on our team have never even heard our theme song, or Iron Maiden

- Each year, our team has a yearbook, given to mentors and sponsors of the team. We have articles and pictures detailing our competitions and events throughout the year. It is customary for whichever person is late for the bus to each respective competition to be forced to write the article for that competition.
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Re: What are your Team Traditions?

-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!

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Re: What are your Team Traditions?

at 1747 we:

-keep track of how many points each member racks up for finding lost stuff. the scoreboard is on the back of our toolbox.

-play dodgeball with '06 balls when we need a break

- allow every senior to take one item from the build room when they graduate... no robots or other vital/expensive items.

we have an end of the year party... everybody gets an award, and someone busts out the grill.

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i get the idea the gnome is living this year.
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Re: What are your Team Traditions?

-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....
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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.
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i get the idea the gnome is living this year.
Nope, we are perfectionists. We had a run of bad luck on Archimedes, so we had to make some "adjustments".
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Re: What are your Team Traditions?

I don't know if they are really "traditions" but some habits we have:

This year me and the other driver did a secret hand shake before every match with our driver coach, then we would finish it off with just each other.

Making a "DeWalt" joke whenever we can.

Referring to our Mechanical Engineering mentor as an "accountant."

We are a young team, so we just barely have a foundation. As I said before these are just some habits.

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We always have a "sick art" contest on the way to Atlanta. We bring bags of crayons and pencils, and everyone makes a puppet from the sick bag in their seats. We tape them to the overhead bins and the flight attendants judge them and award prizes to the winners (usually extra snacks). The flight attendants love it.

We have tried doing the cha-cha slide on the airplane, but that went away very quickly - it seems that the pilots don't like all the movement in the plane.

P.S. You have to picture how MOE travels. Besides the 30 some students, we have mentors and family members all on the same plane. All wearing MOE shirts.
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We tape them to the overhead bins and the flight attendants judge them and award prizes to the winners (usually extra snacks).
Do you have any photos of that? I would love to see the plane decor and all the MOE green filling the seats.

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We always try to encourage "Throwback Thursday" wearing the older tee-shirts from your collection to the competition on Thursday.

A newer tradition has been to have the Thursday pit "To Do list" printed onto a tee shirt and worn around the pit by the newest pit crew member so we don't lose the list.

Team pot luck and slide show to end the season, including the mentors getting awards that make fun of us from the students.

Time lapsing build days when we think a significant portion of the robot will go together for posterity (Some of these are on our site or youtube).
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