Re: Time tracking software
 

We hand out little buisness cards. The front has a place to put your name, year on the team, job, etc... and on the back is a place for about 10 entries that include Date, Hours, and Mentor or Officer signoff. Before a mentor signs off, they have to ask "what did you do today". It's not perfect, but it's something. We also hand out hours for work outside the meeting. (Reseaching and creating a book about the stores and resturants around a regional might be worth 5 hours, etc...)

Once you fill up a card, hand it in and get a new one. It all gets tallied in Excel.

If you forget to get it filled out at the end of the meeting, then you don't get credit. That way, we know when someone leaves.

Then... at the end of the year... when we get our box of 25 metals from FIRST, the top 25 hours getters get metals. Which for a small team wouldn't be that great... but with 65-75 students, that is the top 3rd.

It took us about 3 years to get to a working method, so keep trying.

Re: Time tracking software
 

Tcl/Tk would be another very good choice. It's extremely cross-platform, with implementations for Windows, Linux (and other Unices), MacOS (Classic and X), PalmOS, PocketPC, etc.

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what if you used a pointsystem, like if a mentor saw you working or something they could give you a point, but the points would only be availible to have mentors and teachers giveout, just an idea but the down side is if no one sees you working :ahh:

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At weekly meetings, we have a sign in sheet with every students name. When they come in, they have to put a check in the box between their name and the date. This gives us a visual representation of about how many meetings each student shows up to.

However, during the build season, you can only be marked present if a mentor has seen you actively working on a project or you have submitted something. For example, my first year on the team, I did not often come to the school to work (mainly because I didn't have a car and the weather was horrid) so I would work on logo designs and photoshop skins for the 3D animation from home and then bring them to meetings when I had the chance. Because I had something to show for the hours that I had logged at home, I was chosen to attend both of the regional competitions as well as Nationals.

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I like your teams focus on completing task. This is something that my team needs to adopt rather than our time requirements. Maybe I should track complete and incomplete task along with hours to try to get my team to move in that direction.