How does your team spend the Kickoff afternoon?

[Revolverx7]

The day of kickoff my whole team meets at school for breakfast and then watches the video broadcast of the kickoff. After which we go and print out all the newly unlocked documents and start to build the necessary parts to a practice field. We also break up into small groups and come up with possible robot design solutions for the new game. What a wonderful time the first few days are.

[ewankoff]

team 1676 is going to NJIT for the simulcast and the rest of us are watching on the nasa website but not all together. then people at NJIT are going to seminars and the rest are planning and comming with ideas for next monday

[generalbrando]

We have a team kick-off which is the only event of the day. Afterwards, team members are encouraged to go home, read the rules, and think on their own. We find this gives us a broader range of ideas to work from. Meanwhile, mentors do a little preparation work - taking care of ordering newly needed supplies, checking the kit, etc, etc.

[karinka13]

We pump sugar into Alicia and see what happens.

[looneylin]

yay sugar!!! it's amazing how many useless ideas i can come up with if i'm hyped on sugar. but with every 23 bad ideas.. i get one really good one. lol

[Alex Pelan]

We've never really spent a lot of time working on kickoff day, and we're continuing that this year. We're throwing in an hour or so of brainstorming before sending the majority of the kids home to read the rules, etc, then in the afternoon a select few are unpacking the kit/working on building field elements.

[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by Alex Pelan

We've never really spent a lot of time working on kickoff day, and we're continuing that this year. We're throwing in an hour or so of brainstorming before sending the majority of the kids home to read the rules, etc, then in the afternoon a select few are unpacking the kit/working on building field elements.

And hopefully not taking a wrong turn on the way home from Manchester again.

[henryBsick]

222 watches the web cast at our local theater. We think about the game and reconvene on Sunday for ideas. We finalize design on Monday and then build build build.

[Lil' Lavery]

Today weve rented out the lecture hall to watch the kick-off, set up a satellite to watch NASA TV, and after our mini-outreach kick-off type event, strategy discussions begin.
We get the strategy team together and we discuss, while a bunch of people build the field and other people read over every rule in the rulebook (or pretend to).

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

... while a bunch of people build the field ...

That would be the alumni.

Wetzel

[Tyrah]

we get wired on Bawls and work are butts off

[Zero-Bee]

Party at Dan's House!

Watching the broadcast on projection screen. Very cool. It has been TiVo'D, so late comers could watch it.

[Simon Strauss]

Its only around 11 hours into build and team 1155 has already done more designing than we had done in the first week and a half of build last year, over flowed my toilet and half the team is pissed off at my crooked ceiling. this is going to be an interesting year

[Mark Pettit]

Our team hosts the kickoff event at our school. We inventory our kit right away after we sign for it and then we clean up and put stuff away from the event. After that, we take a trip to a nearby pizza joint and throw our initial thoughts around just to bounce them off each other. We won't start the die-hard brainstorming until Tuesday after we have pondered the manual and the parts list.
That's the way it's been for the last 3 years.