Post-competition excitement

[Gui Cavalcanti]

We all know the story. Competitions end, we all go back to our respective schools, and we're all filled with this immense, hyperactive engineering "must build something now!" buzz. If we channel it somewhere and keep it going, we can stay excited until next build season. If we go back to school and forget FIRST until January of next year, we lose it.

I'm interested in keeping it for next year. I'm graduating from my team, but I think if we used that energy I could inspire them and teach them a lot of cool stuff before I leave. The question is, how do we channel it?

I've been tossing around a team design competition in my head (PM me if you're interested, I'm not revealing details on CD because my team might read it ahead of time ), and other fun things like attaching new arms to the 2004 robot (we have a bolt-on arm system; 4 3/8" holes are enough to come up with something completely different). My question is, what do your teams do in the off-season to keep the buzz going?