What are your Offseason plans?

FIRST General Forum
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Now that the Reefscape season has concluded (for most of us!), what does your team plan to do in this coming off season?

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Our team is learning skills. Our software teams is moving to AdvantageKit. We will also redesign our vision so we can both pick up game pieces automatically and auto line up to field elements.

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A bit of outreach, some repairs.

  • we run summer camps as a fundraiser, those need training and preparation
  • a local elementary school comes to learn on our LEGO bots, which is part of training for the summer camps.
  • the town we are in hosts a science fair, we will put our bot on static display while our demonstration bot and/or LEGOs get played with.
  • The competition bot has some wear & tear that needs addressed.
  • end-of-year potluck dinner for families

Training is more of a fall thing for us, as is any off-season competition

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For us, a lot of team restructuring.

Our high-impact seniors are graduating and there’s some big shoes to fill. We wanted to get into an off-season before the school year ended (but haven’t made it into one at the moment), and they’re almost certainly going to an off-season comp in fall 2025. Some members want to add some parts to our bot, some members want to build a whole new bot entirely. Whatever they decide, it’s going to get the younger/newer members involved so older students can pass on knowledge down. That’s the main plan though c:

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If anything, train the rookies, continue outreach, continue discussing plans. But maybe build a 2910 archetype clone.

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We got some big plans in motion, mostly to develop new products! :slight_smile:

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We’re in the same boat here- like half of the team is graduating. :sweat_smile:
Super proud of my underclassmen!

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Our team will be doing our very first ever clone of another bot! When at least a very close mock if they don’t release their CAD, who that team is TBA…

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Sleep.

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put an end effector for coral on our 2024 robot.

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I’ve been catching up on sleep and getting back in my manager’s good graces.

Some of our students are continuing to work on the 2025 robot to get it to where it should have been. I think that’s important for their confidence, but the 5 coral auto they want just isn’t going to happen…

I’ve also been writing some curriculum for workshops with prototyping, material selection, CAD, design theory, manufacturing, and communication as topics. A couple of small projects include an automated button maker and an educational, hands-on resource for understanding sensors.

We’ll be organizing our off season event in the fall and maybe attending another one.

Outreach… we have the Des Moines Mini Maker Faire next weekend that we’re taking FRC & FTC robots to, and I’ll have some of my personal projects there, too. There are some ideas floating around in the outreach space, but nothing else firm yet.

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sleep, volunteering, and working on personal projects.