The Mat and Lego obstacles can be very useful to stay together for the off season. Addition tournaments, off season practice, and summer workshops are very helpful for getting a team ready to compete. I would recommend keeping it as a set. You could donate it to your school/ organization, sell it to another start-up team, or keep it for your own future teams, but keep it together. Patty On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 4:24 PM, B Bergenstock <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > There are a bunch of pieces, usually regular blocks that you won't really > need again. I think the kids find it exciting to get some of them, and it > won't hurt your future teams to let them have those pieces. I would > definitely save any bars, gears or technic pieces for future teams. This > year's spinner and strength machine are gold mines for those pieces! > I guess it really depends on if you will be coaching again. If you are, > it is a team robot- not yours, but an FLL bot used by any team members of > the future. If you're not, then it's not as easy a decision, but you > said you were, so that's that with the machine. > Good luck fielding any questions from parents who believe they purchased a > NXT machine ;) > Brandy > > > ------------------------------ > To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your settings, please visit > https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html and select "Join or > leave the list". > VADCFLL administrative announcements are sent via VADCFLL-ANNOUNCEMENTS-L. > Visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-announcements-l.html to > subscribe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your settings, please visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html and select "Join or leave the list". -- VADCFLL administrative announcements are sent via VADCFLL-ANNOUNCEMENTS-L. Visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-ANNOUNCEMENTS-l.html to subscribe.