When Do Meetings Start for Your Team?

[Ravage457]

The school year here start on the 27th of this month, that week the veteran team meets without the mentors present, then either the second or third week will have our meeting with the veteran team, mentors and new members and discuss what the team plans to do to prepare the new kids for the chaotic and fun 2013 FRC season,

[EOC]

Team 1208 has started this week, our second week of school.

[Tom Line]

The core group of members who have a real passion for robotics meet year round. The business-centric members only meet a couple times over the summer to review and revise the business plan, bylaws, and update other items. The team-at-large attends multiple demos over the off-season months.

The actual "go complete" team meetings start at our Christmas party where we elect our team leaders for the year.

[connor.worley]

As soon as possible, after school starts. We have a veteran-member only meeting first to bring them up to speed, and then an open meeting the next week.

[LeelandS]

It depends on how you define "meeting".

But 1405 has been meeting all summer long (I jumped in sometime during mid/late July). But from what I understand, the meetings have been going on since a few weeks after Finger Lakes.

[Koko Ed]

We start our pre season meeting in late October one week before the Rah Cha Cha Ruckus to get the new students acclimated to the robots program and get the returning students back online with the team.

[pfreivald]

We meet at least weekly year-round.

[AllenGregoryIV]

We had our introduction/new member meeting yesterday the second week of school. But we have been meeting 4-5 days a week since Nov 2011.

[Siri]

err...T plus three years? We've been year-round since about 2009 (rarely breaking completely for even a few weeks).

[Billfred]

The meetings stopped?!

We kept staging meetings about once a week all summer long to work on things. Actually gained a member that way (win!), but most of our newbies will enter in the next few weeks.

[holygrail]

We are starting Wednesday. We did some demos and taught a bunch of Lego and Vex classes over the summer, but I couldn't honestly classify those as meetings since a huge portion of the team was out of town or otherwise occupied.

[GilaMonsterAlex]

We started last Tuesday, with our first official club meeting. We did meet once a month during the Summer to keep in touch with our veterans (only 4 left). Should be meeting every Tuesday until kick off, including how many ever Saturdays we need to finish our projects.

[jessss]

We started school on August 20th but our team doesn't start meeting until September. We have team leader interviews starting September 11th, then the team leaders will meet once a week starting September 18th. Our first full team meeting is on September 24th. A few of us students met over the summer for demos and summer classes but technically we start meeting in September. After our kickoff meeting, we meet as a team once or twice a month until kickoff and our team leaders meet once a week until kickoff.

[MattS_FRC867]

Well this year our team, which serves as a class at our school, meets during sixth period Tuesdays to Thursdays, except for FRC Build. Our year starts on the first Tuesday of the school year, which for us was August 28.

[protoserge]

We're opening our doors (Open Enrollment meeting) for the 2013 competition season in 1:45!

This year, we officially start meeting next week. Last year, we didn't meet until October. This is a huge advantage, as we can now recruit more students AND have a longer research and development period.