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What was your schedule like for build season?
Our listed schedule was M-Th 5:30-9, Sat 10-5 with team dinner for the first half hour of M-Th and lunch during Saturday. Our actual schedule ended up being meeting until about 9:30-10:30 on M-Th and ended up meeting on Sunday's the last few weeks.
I seem to meet quite a bit more frequently on my high school team (I remember meeting on Fridays and listening to football games, so probably Sundays as well). I'm just curious what kind of hours other teams keep. |
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Monday-Thursday 7-9
Saturday 9-4 (Lunch Provided) Other days were scheduled as needed. |
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Nominally, 358 met 7-11pm Mon-Fri and Saturday 10am-6pm.
A couple of January Saturdays were missed because I had other commitments and wasn't there to open the school. The last couple of Sundays we added 10 or 12 to 6pm to make up for snow closings. And we have winter break on the last Monday/Tuesday, so we met 10am-midnight those two days. Afternoons after school are for homework, and mentors can join the students after work when we start at 7pm. |
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As a complete team 540 generally meets two days a week:
- 4pm-9pm on a weekday (previous years have been a Wednesday and a Thursday) - 8am-5pm on Saturdays. There is normally a "study hour" built into the day to ensure students keep with the GPA expectations of the team. Other days are scheduled as need, but this is generally most of our build season. |
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RoboPride met Tuesday from 3:30-8, Friday 3-10, and Saturday 10-7. Like many of you, we stayed much later than those hours indicate.
The toughest series of events was last weekend. We worked on Friday until 2:30 in the morning, when suddenly the class bells sounded. We figured that was a good time to go home. We then reconvened at 9am to drive to our week 0 practice which was an hour away. I was at school from 7am to 1am quite a few times this build season. Tomorrow I'm going to be "sick". :) |
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Officially we meet Monday through Friday 6-8, Saturday 10-6 and Sunday 1-5.
Some students and mentors end up staying late most nights. |
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Our schedule has been the same for the 8 years we've been a team.
All year, we meet on Wednesdays after school (or in the summer around noon) - 8:00pm During the season, we meet: Saturdays 9/10 - whenever the work is done (usually after midnight. We give out "midnight merit badges" for those who stay late. Usually around 1-2am) Sundays 12/1pm (after church) - 8:00pm. And our usual Wednesday routine. On the weekends, we have parents cook meals and bring them to the team. This saves lots of time and money. We expect every parent to sign up for at least one meal, even if it means you work with another parent or two. This is also a good bonding experience for the team, and while eveyone is in the same room, we do sub-team reports and any other announcements. This is a good experience for our kids to practice presenting to their peers as well, and it makes everyone accountable. On Wednesdays, we usually go out to eat (we are within walking distance of many restaurants, as well as the university's student union food court). But we have a team meeting back in the shop after. Also, other days are scheduled as needed. We work through most snow days, as well as MLK Day and Super Bowl Sunday. We do this schedule to allow students to do other extra-curriculars. We don't require every meeting, but we expect everyone to put in their fair share of the work. I.e. if you have to miss a few days or half-days, we understand, as long as you get your work done. Wednesdays we also tell students that homework is a priority. If you have homework that needs to be done, this is the best opportunity to get help from your peers or mentors if you need it. Homework first, then robots. |
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General schedule:
Tuesday 3-8PM Thursday 3-8PM Saturday 9-5PM We added some additional meetings, and lengthened some others, as was required. |
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Week 1 of build season:
Tuesday and Thursday 4-8, Saturday 9-2 Week 6 of build season: M-F 2-9, Saturday 9-2. Weeks 2-5 were between these extremes. These are just the times the shop was open. Some of these times were with the full team, and some were just driver practice, programming, or a few build members. |
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We settled on a regular schedule several years ago that continues to work for us.
Tuesday: 3-5 afterschool shift; 5:30 team meeting; 6-8 evening shift Wednesday: 3-5 afterschool shift; 5:30-7:30 evening shift Thursday: 3-5 afterschool shift; 5:30-7:30 evening shift Friday: 5-8 evening shift Saturday: 9-5 weekend shift (with lunch break) Sunday and Monday are usually days off. This schedule runs during Build Season, plus another week or two after Stop Build while we work on spare/replacement parts and pit organization. We add more time and more days as appropriate, but we don't normally call the extra work sessions "official" for the purpose of counting attendance. Students are required to spend productive time at least half of the work days in order to remain "in good standing" and be eligible for team travel. |
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Monday through Thursday we met from 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Saturday we met from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Sunday we met from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm |
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Wave Robotics build schedule:
M,Tu,Th,F: 5p-10p. Sa: 8-4. During build season students are required to commit 10 work hours per week or they accrue points. We have a time clock system to enforce this. |
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Typically...
Monday-Wednesday, Friday: 4 - 6 PM <---Plan kid driven what needs done what happened etc. Saturday: 10 AM - 5 PM (potluck) <---Build day w/ mentor supervision Off days; Sunday, Thursday Slight deviations for holidays (no mtg) and I think we had a Sunday Plan session in there after launch A few Saturdays went a bit longer until sundown. |
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Monday-Friday excluding Wednesdays: 3:00 to 9:00 PM
Sat-Sun: 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM Later in build season some of us stayed a lot later, up to about 2:30 AM or so during the President's Day weekend. Didn't even have time to fully test the robot before bagging it, but at least it was tested compared to last year. |
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Monday - Friday 3-9
Saturday 9-3. Last weekend of bag was Friday 10-9 Saturday 9-5 Sunday 9-6 Monday 9-6 Tuesday 3-1030 |
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M-F 4-9
Sat 9-3 |
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Our team is community, so we are less flexible relating to school times, but more flexible on weekends.
We meet three days a week, this year Tues-Thur from 6-8 PM. Saturday 10AM-5PM. Sunday, leaders at 1PM, rest of the team 2PM-6PM. |
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Team 5102 has the whole team meet:
Monday - Friday: 5-9 Saturday : 10-6 |
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First five weeks
Monday: 4:30-6:30 Wednesday: 4:30-7:30 Friday: 3:30-9:00 Saturday: 10AM-6PM Week 6 Monday: 4:30-6:30 Tuesday-Wednesday: 4:30-9:00 Thursday: 3:30-9:00 Friday-Saturday: 10AM-9PM Sunday: 12PM-5PM Day Before Bag Day: 10AM-9PM Bag Day: 10AM-8PM |
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lately we've been doing
Weekdays 6:30~7 AM - 8:30 2:40 PM - 5~10 PM Saturdays 9 am - 7 pm at our sponsor's shop Sundays 10 am -5 pm |
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Summer: One day per week (I believe it was Thursday) working projects for about three hours, and about five hours on six Saturdays with a "Robot Camp" training and in-house scrimmage.
Aug-Dec: Mon and Thu, 5:00-7:00. Mostly, we worked on the air cannon for the football games and did "tryouts" because the air cannon brought us enough recruits that we could afford to be choosy. After tryouts, we worked on a prototype 6-wheel drive platform which was never completed. Build Season (most of the weeks): Mon, Tue, Thu 5:00 - 7:30. (School ends about 4, and there was a study hall in the lab for an hour, also allowing mentors time to arrive.) Sat 9-3:30, but often extending a few hours later; few went past 7pm. MLK day and Lundi Gras/Washington's birthday/President's day were school and federal holidays. We did not have a full team meeting, but the programmers and a few control team members followed a Saturday schedule. We did our marathon bag-and-tag session a few days early, 9am - 11pm on Saturday, and took Tuesday (Mardi Gras locally, or Stop Build Day to the rest of FRC) off as a team, which was how I was able to post so much to CD that day. (I had at least as much fun as if I'd gone to Rex on St. Charles Avenue, and stayed a whole lot warmer!) If you're paying attention, you noticed the second programming day after our bag and tag. We built two (nearly) identical robots. They were close enough that we swapped which one we we bagged and which was for practice about 2pm on Saturday; we bagged Peabody and are practicing and programming on Atlas. We'll pick up with the build season schedule again on Monday and continue until Bayou Regional, at least for programmers and drivers. I suspect it will be nearly everybody, as we are rebuilding the pit and we still have checklists, scouting forms, spirit, and a bunch of other things to wrap up before we go to competition. |
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M,T,W,Th 7 pm - 10 pm
Friday we all take off except week 6 Saturday 10 am - 7 pm we have brunch from 9 am to 10 am, and late lunch at 2:30 and then the adults have dinner at 8 pm at the Italian restaurant with a nice bottle of wine Sunday 10 am - 5 pm brunch is from 9 am - 10 am, lunch at 2:30 The last four days of build we were there every night until at least 2 am and then we would split shift the kids and adults, starting at 9 am until planned midnight each night. We bagged at 11:59 pm. Somehow, I still didn't get home until 2 am that night anyway. In terms of food. We have a fridge, griddle, grill, microwave, coffee pot, rice cooker, veggie steamer, and toaster. There is always breakfast on Sat/Sun (and during president's weekend), which gets my kids here a bit earlier. We always have a fully stocked pantry of stuff sponsored by my retirement fund (and kids/parents, of course). Lunch is provided by kids for the entire team. We always eat together on the weekends at one long table. Our union break is a half hour. :) |
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Weeks 1,2,3 - Mon -Thurs: 4 till 7, Fri: 5 till 8, Sat: 11 Am till7pm
Week 4, 5 Mon - Thurs: 4 till 8, Friday: 5 till 9, Sat: 11am till 9pm Week 6 - Mon-Thurs 5 till 9, Friday 5 till 1am Weekend Through Tuesday - 11am till 1:30am officially. 2:30 on Sat. |
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Weekdays: 6:30-11ish
Sat: 2-Midnight Sun: 2-10 The last week of build season was a killer though, we 3:30-12 on some days. A few of us went about 36 hours straight from Friday to Sunday. (Friday 3:30pm - Sunday 2 am).... we really wanted a working robot for our Week Zero event. I guess that's just one of the nice things about not building in the school, we're not as limited on hours. |
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The X-Cats meet on Wednesdays after school before moving to our shop space. Meeting at the shop was on Wednesday from 5:30 to 8:00, Saturday from 9:00 to 5:00.
Students need to complete a minimum number of hours to qualify for excused absences to go to the regional and championship. Eric |
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Mon-Thu: 4:30 - 6:00 (School policy prohibits extracurriculars on Fridays)
Sat: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM (Also school restrictions on weekend meetings) |
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M/W 5-8
F 5-10 Sa 12-everyone leaves Su 12-5 We used to meet 3-7 M/Tu/W but that was pretty stupid so I nixed that. We also have a lot of night owl mentors so meeting before noon on Saturday is pretty much impossible. We do two meals a week, except during bag weekend where (this year excluded) we probably meet around 40 hours and need 4-5 meals. In the fall we meet 5-7 M/W with occasional weekend meetings and during competition season we meet W 5-8 and F 5-10 with Saturdays if we need them. Over the summer we meet when we want to. |
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Tuesday, Thursday 4:00-7:30
Friday 4:00-10:30ish Saturday 9:00-5:00 |
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M-F: 4:30-7:30
Sat: 12-5 Extended hours for the last half of build: M-F: 4:30-8:30 Sat: 11-6. Those were scheudled ending times. Meetings actually ended whenever people felt like going home. Sunday of kickoff and Sunday before bag were also added. |
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We were scheduled for the following:
Mondays 3-6PM Thursdays 3-6PM Fridays 3-9PM Saturdays 9AM-6PM Sundays 1PM-6PM But additional days and hours were added, probably coming close to doubling the scheduled amount of time. In reality, since kickoff we've met every day except for about three. We had one 3:30 AM closing time, and probably 5 nights where we closed past 1:00 AM. No all nighters this year. Our top students have put in over 300 hours since kickoff. The average is close to 160 hours. We have 56 more hours scheduled between now and our first regional. We took yesterday off, and then were back at it tonight and stayed until 9:30pm. |
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3-6 Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri.
12-6 Sat and Sun. Wed off. Less time than I wanted, more time than the mentors wanted to devote. |
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Wednesday and Thursday 6:30-9:00pm
Saturday, Sunday, and Monday Holidays 9:00am-5:00pm |
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Monday-Friday 6pm to 9:30pm. Saturdays 10am-6pm.
Weeks 5 & 6 included Sunday meetings and Monday-Friday started around 3pm on most days so we could make up snow days. |
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Monday-Friday (school days) 4-8ish PM
Saturday (and days with no school ie Presidents Day) 9-5 (we stayed from 9-8 once. :ahh:) |
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Full team meetings:
Thursday, 2-8 Saturday, 7:30-5pm (10pm+ Weeks 5 & 6) Sunday, 9am-2pm+ (10pm+ Weeks 5 & 6) CAD, Programming, and discussions held in between. My usual home CAD days were M-W, 6-10pm with forum discussion & student prototyping the following day. Spent CAD time generating designs for discussion which we'd refine when we met as a team. Students would stay after school and machine, prototype and/or assemble Mondays and Tuesdays, 2-5ish. Business team usually came in before and after school for an hour or two. We used DropBox for sharing CAD, but we may look into things like Inventor Fusion this offseason. It'll help our non-CAD team members if they can interact with things ahead of time, without needing the install and entire 1.5GB+ CAD library we've established over 4 years. Access to the school & mentor burnout are our limiting factors for our schedule. It probably doesn't help that FRC is only 25% of our total program. :facepalm: |
Monday-Thursday 230-630
Friday: 230-5 |
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Our original schedule was M-T 2:30-9:00 and F until 11:00. we gave 2:30-4:00 for homework and 6:00-7:00 for dinner. That didn't go as well as we thought. We then changed it to Monday and Tuesday 2:30-9:00 (2:30-4:00 homework 3:00 snack time and 6:00-6:30 dinner), Wednesday and Thursday 2:30-6:00(No homework time but we have a snack at 3:00), and Friday 2:30-9:00(No homework time and dinner between 6:00 and 6:30). We also worked on Saturdays 12:00-7:00 on an as needed basis. This schedule worked very well for our team to get a lot done. We had our longest workday in the history of our team on Valentines day. We worked from 10:00 AM until 11:30 PM. It was planned to be until 6:00 PM. However, people wanted to get a lot done!
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