What are your Team Traditions?

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by Jared341

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

i get the idea the gnome is living this year.

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by ratdude747

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".

[Kibaspirit]

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.

[Carol]

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.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Carol

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.

Jane

[Peter Matteson]

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).

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by Jared341

Nope, we are perfectionists. We had a run of bad luck on Archimedes, so we had to make some "adjustments".

i REALLY hope you are kidding. you should be proud of your achievement this year!

[targus]

Originally Posted by ratdude747

i REALLY hope you are kidding. you should be proud of your achievement this year!

I can answer that. The Gnome is for the Robot (Miss Daisy) and Pit. So if there is any problem with the maintenance / electrical and of course, the biggest problem is the programing(er) The Gnome tends to get hurt. We also have a mentor that does not like gnomes and tends to attack it, at a drop of a hat. BTW, it is not me.