Re: How do you manage homework and robotics?
 

Balancing robotics and homework/extracurriculars/other obligations can be diffiult. Even after almost 6 years of participating in FLL and FRC, it still gets annoying. Ways to help this is to have a robotics homework session right after school for about 30 minutes, no joking/robo talk/etc., where you all just do some of your homework. Also, doing it during lunch, easy classes, or before school helps too. :]

Re: How do you manage homework and robotics?
 

this is my first year at robotics and we psend a lot of time at school on the robot, including weekends. we have other members on our team coming to school round 5 in the morning for sports and dont get home til after 9:30 at night. this includes wrestlers and swimmers. the others come early to work on things and stay late. we all maintain a fairly high gpa. all you do is just figure out a good way to balance it all. i myself have around a 3.4 gpa and am satisifed but wish it was higher. all i can tell you is try your best to keep your grades up and ask a team member to help if you need it.

Re: How do you manage homework and robotics?
 

I use my drafting class to do my homework. Thank god robotics has made me a relative fast drafter and i can finish all my drafting stuff as well. Also the trick is not to sleep more than 4 hours a night, it might be dangerous and result in robot failure.

Dave

Re: How do you manage homework and robotics?
 

lol, that is so true. sleep gets more and more dangerous the closer you get to regionals :P

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Re: How do you manage homework and robotics?
 

Wait... We're supposed to do homework during build season?

I good method that I've found is try to do as much work as you can during school, go to robotics until we are told to go, rest about an hour at home, then do all the homework I got to do. If you're like me, and have a few other things in your schedule besides robotics as well, it can be pretty tight for time, but that's what the weekend is for, right?

Re: How do you manage homework and robotics?
 

our team has a 30 to 60 minute homework period before work