What are your Team Traditions?

[kjolana1124]

Originally Posted by onecoolc

1. There is no work on the Robot on Sunday. Period. This is enforced by our Coach's wife, who wants her husband back once a week.

That's Friday for us

Our team has a pep rally every year before our "home" regional (Hartford). The community is invited to see the new robot, learn about the team, and eat free ice cream. It's AWESOME.

[Katie_UPS]

I forgot one!
We have a team hand game (like patty-cake) and a running high score (its hard to explain, but its based on how far you get).

[ratdude747]

at 1747 we:

-keep track of how many points each member racks up for finding lost stuff. the scoreboard is on the back of our toolbox.

-play dodgeball with '06 balls when we need a break

- allow every senior to take one item from the build room when they graduate... no robots or other vital/expensive items.

we have an end of the year party... everybody gets an award, and someone busts out the grill.

[Hawiian Cadder]

we have a 1 dollar senior gift tradition. everyone but the graduating vets goes to the dollar store, and buys something random for every grad.
we also go to IHOP if we leave the shop later than 1 am

[steelerborn]

Our tradition is kinda goofy.
After our last regional of that season the team CEO (me this year) gets a cake in the face. Everyone had a blast. But I was blowing sprinkles out of my nose for a week LOL!

[lscime]

This will probably become a tradition:

Somehow "hug robot" ended up being #10 on our drive team's pre-match checklist. Let's just say it got hugged every time, after all, the list says we had to....

[kjolana1124]

Originally Posted by lscime

This will probably become a tradition:

Somehow "hug robot" ended up being #10 on our drive team's pre-match checklist. Let's just say it got hugged every time, after all, the list says we had to....

Have you hugged your robot today?

I see a T-Shirt in the future....

[jsasaki]

It seems like our team is going to continue this which is going to laser tag at every one of our away regionals. Every away regional(2) we've gone to we went to some sort or laser tag arena which is always a blast. Another tradition is an end of the year social which we give out awards, give the seniors presents, have lots of food, music, games, and at the end give one deserving senior a BAE scholarship for engineering.

[santosh]

We started instituting pledging for our freshmen members. There are bot group activities that are nearly impossible to complete as well as individual assignments each kids gets.
For instance 1 kid had to take a picture with a girl from each team in Newton. Another was a kid who had a new daily mission.
They enjoyed the process and it helped the kids grow together. It was a great team building experiment with them. We are going to continue it next year as well.

[Basel A]

Traditions...

-"NERD ALERT" as our robot goes onto the field
-If it's lost, it's probably in Dave's pocket (lead mechanical mentor)
-I've somehow been deemed the team good luck charm. We lose comms whenever I don't point out to Dave that I'm watching.
-After each day of competition, we have very, very long "Pluses and Deltas" team meetings.
-Our team has always had at least one Spaz (currently 3: Spaz, SpazDad, and SpazGirl)
-Does Scouting count? We always have at least 7 people scouting at competitions.
-Banquet at the end of the year, complete with fun awards (and by this I mean ridiculous awards)
-We always try to do Team-building things with other teams at competitions (i.e. JSA last year with team 27, some things this year at Nationals) (PM if you wanna participate?)
-Blame the freshmen. Then fix it.

[Alex2614]

Originally Posted by lscime

This will probably become a tradition:

Somehow "hug robot" ended up being #10 on our drive team's pre-match checklist. Let's just say it got hugged every time, after all, the list says we had to....

I do seem to remember a time or two when the robot was not hugged, and losing the match...

[Hadar]

our team is very young, so we have very few traditions.

1. when you guys have the kick-off in the US, it's about 6pm here, every year we get in someone's house and watch the kick-off together and eat XD

2. scouting dies as we reach our game, nothing else matter except of cheering our team, it's the adults responsibility now XD

3. a new tradition from the championship (that i hope will stick) is to gather the all team and yell "EMEK HEFER" as loud as we can!

4.a "children pile" is a must, at least once a day!

almost forgot:

5. mechanics is always perfect, every problem we have is caused by our programming team!

[Foster]

* We have hand prints or names of our seniors on our shipping crate.

* Custom made awards for our seniors:

[ras103]

103 has a few good traditions,
We have an wrap- up party at the end of each school year for all the students and mentors.
We Take Zeus, our Cy-"BEAR"-sonics mascot to every competition.
While at the Florida Regional, the whole team goes on a few rides together.
We eat dinner every night together during the build season.
....
I'm sure that there are a few more that i can't think of right now!
But all those others you all participate in are cool!

[Wildcat]

one of the elegid ones on my team is when the drive base for the robot is operational, someone must be dragged around by it. i got to partake in this this past year, was fun