What to do in the off-season

[kjolana1124]

It's weird. If anything, I kind of think off season has more of an impact than the regular season. During the regular season, students and mentors alike are many times so focused on the game at hand and continuous improvements and all that, they sometimes get a game focused tunnel vision (not that there's anything really wrong with that). However, the off season allows students to step back, actually breathe for the first time in months, and really see a broad perspective of things.

That being said, I wish our team did more in the off season than it does. We do a few demos, at least one competition (normally Wolcott but that might change this year), new management elections, reflections on the past year, a team dinner, then we're done until September where we do things like demos, team introductions, and B@tB. We're also working on improving our FTC team, so hopefully that'll get some work in preseason. I'm pretty envious of the teams that don't stop meeting and working, even if sparingly, over the summer.