I am curious what do you do with your game elements after a season is over?
We rent a booth in the expo center at the Monroe County Fair each year where we set up robots and a field for the public to drive robots and learn about our program. We give out the most of the game elements, usually with a sticker attached with contact information, to the kids who come and drive robots.
Last year, the small and medium cubes from IQ were perfect for child-care centers to play with, so the cubes when there. I expect a few rings from this year’s game will end up at child-care centers, too, along with a mobile goal.
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We give our unused game elements to the teams that year.
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Think this is an excellent idea.
We will adopt this for our outreach this year 
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My school gives them out to students in engineering classes and clubs. (Win top 3-ish in a design challenge, get a VEX part.) No more than one part for a student a year, of course. (To let more people take home a part). My favorite of the ones I have is definitely the tri-ball .
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All fun and games until one of them figures out its basically a mace.
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My org usually gives a piece to every 8th grader, and then shoves the rest of everything under our field, never to be seen again…
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Our team partners with the special needs and resources department on our school. They enjoy the game pieces in their as some form of physical aid to my understanding (I don’t exactly get it but I don’t find a need to, whatever helps them helps them, that’s the goal of doing this anyways). We don’t have a use for them really, we’d rather help out where we can then hold on to useless things.
We give a piece to each kid in the program (we have six teams total). Seniors usually take the elements from all of their past games when they have their senior pictures taken.
We reused them for our school’s annual educational fair. We would usually came up with a game (the rules must be simple, of course), and the other robotic classes in our school would play it at the end of the year. We then did some givaway (with stickers and signatures) as a prize.
We’re a school team and our robotics teacher just uses the fields and parts to make challenges for our robotics elective. We bought the field for home and We normally just donate it to her. Alternatively you can try to sell it for a slightly lower price.
We like to use game elements from past seasons and some spare masking tape to make a mini-obstacle course that is then used as a booth in our school’s annual spring fair. We’ve also given some of our game elements as design materials for other engineering projects/clubs and used some field elements to make trophies for a scrimmage hosted by my school in the winter:
I had a sister team member carry a mobile goal through airport security onto a plane as if it was a mace, no idea how that was allowed to go through…
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I will keep some of them to use for future classes and “mini-games” after the season is over (last quarter of school) and for room decorations. So this year, I will save 2 mobile goals and enough rings to fill them.
I also take one game piece and have the year’s class sign it to keep it for memorabilia. Finally I will ask the kids if they want anything, and the rest will get tossed.
We take what we want to keep but otherwise, it goes back to the district.
@1060B_JazzyJumpers not for the triballs from last year
Usually we have them display to show how long our program has been going for.
I know some other schools usually have theirs hung across the wall or as decoration as well.