How do you use your summer?

Just keep doing. Everything. Keep designing, keep building, keep learning, keep fundraising. Build more robots, try more ideas, compete more and more and more. Make more friends, have more fun, go to more events and become more of a team. You have the time - all that's left now is to do.

[Tamster]

Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence

Just keep doing. Everything. Keep designing, keep building, keep learning, keep fundraising. Build more robots, try more ideas, compete more and more and more. Make more friends, have more fun, go to more events and become more of a team. You have the time - all that's left now is to do.

I agree with this. Summer is a really good time to try new things, since there isn't as much of a time crunch.

Our team will be doing a couple of demos, some planning for next year, and some cleaning/organization stuff. We may also do some fixes and/or touch-ups to our robot. We're also doing a robotics "boot camp" for incoming/current students who are interested in robotics.

[sanddrag]

Trying to get a ShopBot CNC router up and running, like I wanted to do but ran out of time for last summer. Bolting down sheetmetal equipment to some workbenches, like I wanted to do but ran out of time for two years ago.

[Mk.32]

Building a new quadcopter... and nursing injuries from racing an mini elec 4000watt gokart.

[Tyler_Kaplan]

In the past it's been mostly cleaning and organizing. It's a nice time for us to rearrange things in the room until we get things exactly how we like them. This year we plan to do some prototyping with drive trains, and build a couple of fun bots, like a t-shirt cannon. Also, never stop fundraising. We usually split our group into two parts. All of the new members coming in, and those we usually don't do outreach or public speaking focus on things like car washes, while the more experienced business people hit the large corporate sponsors. Every donation counts!

[highlander]

For us, it's hard to get organized since a lot of our members are away or taking classes or camps for the summer. Thus, we mostly end up designing solo and implement when school starts.

[Tyler2517]

This summer I am working on our teams swerve drive. Bartering time on a 5 axsis cnc machine. We have a few fll camps we are teaching.
We lost are couch the day before build season, along with that we are losing our adviser that ties us to the school. Hard to get those but we will try tell we get one.

[waialua359]

359 just finished the 2013-14 SY on Friday, followed by a end of year banquet, awards ceremony, and team photo.

We unveiled our summer schedule which is anywhere from 2-5 days depending on your role in our program for the entire summer.
Our summer work ends when our team travels for 2 weeks at the end of July to participate in off season FRC events. This year its IRI and OZARK.

I start my day job work one day after we get back from the off-season trip, for the 2014-15 SY in late July.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

We will be attending the Rockford off season event in July, demo the robot at various events like Taste of Chicago and tech conventions, get started on FTC and VEX designs. If all goes well we will be spending some time moving into a new build space and getting it ready for August class start.

[Jscout11]

Over the summer:
1. Midknight Mayhem + IRI
2. Going to DC to talk with congressmen
3. 2015 Leadership Summer Meetings
4. Starting the Chairman's Award Submission
5. Outreach and STEM Community Events
6. Team Documentary Premiere
7. End of Season BBQ
8. Summer Sessions for Prospective Design and Programming Students
9. Planning fall training sessions
10. Lots of driver practice
11. Meeting with local sponsors
12. 2015 Student Leader Application Process