Time Spent per Week on Robotics
 

Just curious, How many hours on average do you put into robotics per week?
This week I am going to have about 30, which is a solid average for me.

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Much less this week however. Our school has had finals this week, ahh! In fact I should probably be studying for my gov final right now...

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Team 1345 meets every Mon - Thurs from 3 p.m. till 5 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. till 2 p.m. That is a total of 14 hours a week.

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That just doesn't seem like enough to me. I like having time to break the robot before competition, so we can fix it at home.

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Let's see...

Tuesdays 4-6: 2 hours
Thursdays 6-8: 2 hours (running total: 4)
Saturdays 9-6 (in practice): 8.5 hours (total: 12.5)
...and then throw in all the obsessive reading I do of CD and the Q&A, emailing the other mentors and what not, and we're probably talking around 20 hours.

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Wait hold the phone. Do you mean its physically possible to not spend time on robotics during the season?!!! Too much.......for brain......to compute!...goes against.....beliefs........aaaaarrrrrrghhhhhh!!!


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My finals were this week too ;)

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2:30-5:30 weekdays and 10:00-4:00 weekends gives us 27 hours a week

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Who said that was the schedule for the whole season? ;) As the ship dates approaches, student stay back and work on the robot.

Week 1 - Week 4 = BUILD IT. (We did built a prototype of the chassis, and beat the crap out of it just to make sure that it wouldn't break.)

Week 4 + Week 5 = PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE.

... now I hope everything goes the way we are planning on.

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Every weekday
7:00-8:00am
12:00-1:00pm
2:00-6:00pm
...when we're heavily working we stay later and get out of as many classes as possible...not to mention that we think of robotics all day anyways...I swear school gets in the way.. :yikes:

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Hmm, Team 1648 meet whenever possible. Meaning everyday from school break til 6:30 7pm, Saturday 9am til 5 or 6, Sunday 1 til 6. About 28 hrs or so every week.

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Weekday: 3+ hours
Saturday: 8+ hours
Home browsing FIRST-related sites: 2+ hours a day
Total: 33+ hours

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Meetings:
Weekdays: ~6:30 - 10:00
Saturday: 9:00AM - Whenever we get kicked out, or run out of things to do.

So at least 20 hours a week of meetings.

This doesnt include my obsessive compulsive disorder with browsing CD, or sitting and thinking about/writing programs for hours on end.

So all in all, heres my normal day's schedule:

1. Wake Up too late
2. Go to school. Work On robotics stuff. Check CD too much..
3. Go home and prepare for meeting.
4. Go to meeting.
5. Go home, check CD.
6. More random robotics stuff.
7. As you can tell by the horrible grammer in this post, go to sleep too late..

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Same here. I've spent 15 hours in the last two days. and it's only week two.

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Indeed. Cory and I are on pace for another 450+ man-hour season apiece.

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I work an hour on my own for every hour the whole team meets, I'd wager. The team meets about 16 hours per week.

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Can't afford to do too much, right now I'm scheduled to help 9 hours a week, but I usually end up doing 11.

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During the main build season, I spend about 33 hours/week doing robotics-related things. But during the crunch week, I usually spent 14 hours/day (or in other terms, over 70 hours during the week before ship!) at robotics getting everything finished in time to ship. :yikes:

(I have winter vacation during the last week of the build season every year, so I can spend all day from 9 AM to 11 PM at robotics. :D)

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Our students spend about 25-30 hours a week on the robot. Everything at night. As ship deadline gets closer the hours always get longer. The sponsors on the other hand work all the hours the students do plus hours during the day when we should be teaching. There are always calls to make, agendas to work out, and orders to place or track down.

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Easily 2 hours per night on weeknights (this week has been finals week, so I can't do too much more than that...until Monday!) and 3+ hours on Saturday. If we need it, we'll do Sunday afternoons as well, but most students are either making up homework on Sundays or have church/family activities so its kinda tricky to meet.

I say 26-30 hours per week because of the hours I put in at home, at school, and, just once in a while, on ChiefDelphi ;)

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47.25 hours since kickoff (we have to keep track of our time for the class college mentors take) and it looks like it'll be 3 more hours tonight and at least 9 tomorrow.

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i get to school at 6:30 in the morning my first 3 hours of the day is our robotics leader and i work on it then until about 10:00 then i go to my 4th hour finish my work come back down here and work until about 12:15 that's through my lunch hour then i go to 5th hour don't come here then go to 6th hour at 1:15 get my work done at 1:30 come back down here and don't leave until about 6 to 8 o clock at night that is just mon-fri this week we did not have school on monday and we came at 8:30 and left at 6:30 today we do not have school but we got here at 9:00 and are aiming to leave at 2 tomorrow which is saturday we will get here at 7:30 and leave at 3:30 so during First season i spend alot of hours at school. I go home and they all say you look tired. more tired than u normally look and i tell them u go to school from 6:30 am to 6:30 pm on most nights. so yeah but i really enjoy it so as lomg as i am happy i will be fine it is only for 6 weeks :) :)

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Lets see..
7-10 weekdays (until we get closer to ship, then it becomes 7-11)
10-whenever (usually after 7-8) weekends.

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I typically put in about 25, I'd have more hours in, but having a job stinks.

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I WISH! Our Team meets monday-Thursday 3-6 and FRIDAY 3-5. That was our preset schedule, and i don't know how, but each sub-team has 1 week more worth of projects done then they planned, and it's going pretty good.

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Eh, considering the schoolwork most of us have to do... its a weird situation. We meet for 3 hours/day after school mon-thurs, and for 6-8 hours on saturday. Myself, I spend a lot of time reading the rules and these forums at home too, so, myself, at least 24 I think. The issue, I think, is that we have some people on the team who ONLY come on the saturday meetings, and the mentors give their votes equal weight. Its really not fair to those of us that are there consistantly, every day, and now we are making a robot design that I, personally, am extremely skeptical about. Especially as we're a rookie team... it worries me...

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I see people who don't build robots. Walking around like FIRST people. They don't see robot parts everywhere. They only see what they want to see. They don't know their lives are dull.

During build season I'd say I spend about 167 hours per week working on or thinking about robots. The other hour is spent pitying the masses.

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Us too, but that didn't stop me :D

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Since I am a Co-op student and I work at delphi, my job is to work on design and making parts. for my robotics team. I average between 15-20 hours a week at work. I work from 2:30- whenever. And our meetings are Tuesday,Wednesday, Friday 6-9? and Saturday9-3? u really think we go till 3 try like 6 or 7. So with work and robotics and time I spend od CD and FIRST it rounds off to about 34-39hours a week. And that is only with three days u should see how many hours i put in last year without work. I was averaging about 40 hours a week with just meetings. :D

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I have to say we average about 4-5 hours per evening, then around 5-6 on saturday. As the ship date approaches, we've been known to spend all day working on the robot as opposed to going to class...unless we have a test inwhich we'll go take the test then go back to working on the robot :P

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Unfourtunatly my team has little to no support from the school, so we build out of a mentors garage.

Since he works during the week we can only build on Sat. and Sun.

Sat 9-6
Sun 1-6

Every year we end up pulling at least one all nighter before the ship and have never had the time to test.

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My team (547) meets on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 3:30 to 8:00 and on Saturday from 9 AM until 9 Pm...
That's like, 30 hours a week...

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We have a technology/ pre-engineering class that almost everyone from our team is in at the same time. so every weekday we have 1.5 hours in the class to work on the robot plus we stay after school from about 3:30 until 6 or 6:30. On Saturdays we usually work from 10 until about 3. That adds up to be about 27-28 hours a week.

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I can't seem to figure in how to calculate time spent on chiefdelphi and simply researching in my "free" time... but this is the average day in the life of Barry Bonzack...


Get out of college classes, drive 45 minutes to East to Harmony where 1604 meeting starts about 2 and ends normally about 5-5:30ish... Drive 20 West to Saint Cloud high school where meeting starts at 5:30 and end between 8 - 9.... ... i did one of these 8 hour halls today (home at 10) and I then realized i was on chiefdelphi.... Tomorrow shall be a long day I know it. A day in the life of a college student mentoring two teams. :cool:


On a side note... i just did a very rough estimate of my community service hours that the county collects from all outside adult volunteers... so far this month I have about 81+ hours

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Does dreaming about it count? We work on it mentally too, thinking about what we should do and how it would work.

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As much as I possibly can.

This week was about 50 hours,

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Monday-Friday 4-7 (3-7 on fridays)
Saturday & Sunday 12-7
So thats 30/week.

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For the first couple weeks (about 4) we go Mon-Fri 4-7 and Saturday 10-4. Once we reach the last few weeks we try to stick to schedule, but it doesn't usually work. It is tiring because the last week is always vacation for us, so we about 4-5 nights that we don't have to go home, and we stay very late. The machinists (I am one this year) most likely work the largest amount of time at the end of the season attempting to get parts out. But I love spending time at robotics, so who's complaining.

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1547's schedule so far has been:

Monday, Wednesday: 3:30-9
Friday: 3-9
Saturday: 9am - 9pm

The times scheduled for robotics makes 30 hours by itself plus additional time doing things for robotics. And the second week has only just finished! 30 days left until ship :yikes:

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i dont get weekends anymore because of the school and robotics...

its like i never leave....

i have to stay all night some times when i get a good idea.

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our team goes like:

Monday - 4-8
Tuesday - 4-8
Wendsday - 4-8

And countless side hours on CD and designing

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I honestly don't see how people can spend so much time devoted to robotics. It's really saddening, but in a sense it's devotion. It's great to spend so much time on robotics, but i'd much rather be a balanced person. I mean, yeah it's fun, and yeah there's cool stuff to do, but most other people have many other priorities going on in their life--at least i hope so

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dude sleep 5 hours school 8 and robotics 11 every day but on weekends sleep 10 robotics 14 its the perfict life and all with out caffine due to my religiouse beliefs but 3 days well be ready to drive her

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I spend around 45 hour
5 hours each night monday throw friday
Saturday and Sunday some times around 7 or 8

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We go like this
Monday- Friday
5-8
Saturday -Sunday
10-5
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Our team works like this:
Weekdays: 5pm - 9pm
Saturdays: 8am - 5pm

28 hours a week.

I orignally thought that 28 hours a week is quite a lot, but now as I look at the poll, it looks like a lot more people work a lot longer. 28 hours a week is a huge commitment to everyone on the team. Most of them don't all 28 and only a few dedicated members are always there. Perhaps for us, working on Sundays might be a viable solution to the time crunch that we have every year. I would really like to know what are the schedules of those who work more than 40 hours a week?

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From kick-off until today we (team 1538) have been working/designing/building our bot for about 9 hours a day... including 9 hours on weekends :)

sop about 54 hours a week... and that doesn't include thinking about the bot.

last night i thought about how our conveyorbelt was going to look like. IN MY SLEEP. so yea ... if you could count sleeping hours as thinking about the bot. then 1538 has about 54 hours a week / 108 hours

- JERY!!!!

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I was reading Grisham's The Broker just before bed last night. The book contains a bunch of CIA/NSA/EIEIO spy stuff. What did I dream last night? That I had been arrested and detained in a CIA interrogation facility. What did they want to know? How our poof ball shooter worked, and how did we manage to elegantly integrate the loader with the shooter. I need a break...