8 weeks build period!?!
 

Jason Rudolph PMed me about what he saw in the FIRST website, and I checked the site, and found the same thing he showed me in his PM...

http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2003/manworkagenda.htm

So... we are going to have an 8 weeks build period~!?!

what....thats not right at all, because shipping date is feb 18th, so its still 6 weeks.

Re: 8 weeks build period!?!
 

I have to agree with Nataku, that this is probably just a typo. It would be cool though if it were true.

I have always wanted FIRST to have 7 weeks build period, instead of 6 weeks, because during week 3 or 4 schools usually have mid-terms, and is very difficult to get a lot of work done.

I think they just said that because it sounded better than saying "6 weeks in 8 hours". Or, maybe just the guy screwed up.. ;)

Possibly also includes the 2 weeks prior to competition after ship-date of organizing your team further and getting materials together.

It couldn't be the two weeks prior to the event because that workshop takes place on the kickoff day, but it could mean two weeks of competition added on to the six weeks of building.

It includes the six-week period of actual robot constrution, and the two weeks afterwards spent in an asylum in recovery from the six-week period of actual robot construction. :D

-dave

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Y = AX^2 + BX + C

Shaddoe: I said prior to competition
dlavery: basically the same as I said

What if we build our robot inside an asylum? (I think, around here, they call it a High School.) Then what?

I believe FIRST's general response to making the build period is as follows: we're not that mean. That's actually what I remember someone from FIRST (Woody?) saying at some point in time. I highly doubt we'll ever see the build period go beyond the six-and-a-half weeks it is now.

Matt

build is actually less than 6 weeks this year, since we are shipping on feb 18th and we start a few days late

Then you are lucky enough not to have to drive very far to check yourselves in! :D

-dave

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Y = AX^2 + BX + C

Isn't the deadline for animations and/or Chairman's entries two weeks AFTER shipping?


--Jordan

Count again. It's six and a half weeks. We're starting a day earlier than we did last year (kickoff was Jan 5 last year).

Matt

6 weeks and 3 days *to be exact*

Many teams don't really get into it until the kit of parts arrives which may be as many as 3 days after kick off....

whoops, i left a week out somehow, my friend calculated it to be 5 weeks and 3 days...hmm

For the teams that actually go to the kickoff, it's a great advantage for them because they'll get their kit earlier which means they get more time to work with the parts (so you can kinda see it as a bonus)

it is most likely also including the time after you ship and before competitions. we have 3 weeks before our first one so that might be the case.

It says 6 weeks.