We receive 2 team trophies whenever we win something at a competiton. One of them goes in the trophy case at the school. I’m sure that is fairly common.
What do you do with the other one? – Present it to a sponsor? Give it to a student who is graduating that year? Let it collect dust in some corner?
We are currently in the “collecting dust” camp, but, would like some ideas of what other teams are doing.
one in the trophy one in the shop that travels with us to comp, we are hoping to build some type of a robot display in the school which would become the new home for one of the trophies
Ours “go to our sponsor”… in other words, they’re sitting in a box on my desk, as the display case we were supposed to get 7 years ago still hasn’t even been ordered!
Ours goes into the trophy case and the second ones goes into the team display. The kids have claimed it as their own and decorated it as such. We have our scrapbooks in it, trophies, 2 robots, and important information posted to the glass.
You could always just stick them both in a trophy case together, that way to a passerby who isn’t really reading the awards (I know I never read trophies and I doubt I’m the only one) it looks like you won twice as much.
Our build space is inside Motorola and the field construction team has made a shelf all around the room that display all of the sponsor trophies and all of the pit awards we have ever received. We are also in the process of hanging team T-shirts from every year we have been around and a few from other teams. It has been difficult when we have had to move within Motorola. This space is the sixth or seventh build space in three vastly spread buildings that Motorola owns or owned. Our current build space is less than 10 feet from the original closet we had in 1996 but is now big enough for a full size field.