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I don't know about where you are from, but in New York State that would be illegal.

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I wish we could do that. I forget the specific reason why we cant go in on snow days. I asked last year but do not remember the response. I think we still went on snow days when we built our robots at our local BAE.

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It's quite inconvenient, really.

Luckily Shaker only had a two hour delay today...

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My team has less one week to the build season because the most of our members are from the 11th grade and we are on a trip that called "Israeli Trip" which is the "trip" of the high school so we can't miss it, but I think we always behind because we finished the design not completly (the general design we finished) but we are starting building it. We started to build our drivetrain but it takes too much time because every meeting we finding out other thing we need to buy but we can buy just the next day because the meeting is in the little hours of night and some times it take a week to buy it because orders like from andymark need shipping and we are in Israel.
Last year was our rookie year we succeed well but most of our progress was in the last week that we don't have....

I think we are behind but if we finishing the drivetrain next week we will have a huge progress.....

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I feel like we're increadably behind, it's almost week three, and we haven't started the drivetrain...:eek:

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Snow days for us, are all day robot building sessions. If there is a snow day, we tell the kids that if they can make it to the school safely, and it is ok with there parents, that we will have a meeting. I think we actually have better attendance on snow days than during normal meetings sense all other events are cancelled. We also have more time and get more done on snow days. Two seasons ago, our school was canceled for about a week because it was too cold out for the buses to run. We built almost our entire robot that week. As for it being illegal in New York, that would really stink. Our school, I think, can and has had sports practices and everything on snow days.

As for the topic of the thread, I think there will always be a team that is done with their robot before you and after you. Basically you need to just figure out your teams strategy for building your robot and stick to it. Every team is slightly different. Don't worry about how other teams are doing, just stick to your pace. It is like running a race, if you determine what pace you want to run based on the other runners, you can not possibly run your best race. You must determine what is the best pace for you to do your best.

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Our school cancels ALL after school activities and clubs if their is a snow day, which is bad especially because today our lead mentor was getting there 3 1/2 hours early to meet with an 80/20 representative so we would have been able to start early.

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I feel perpetually behind til the project is done and submitted.

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I don't "worry" we're behind. I KNOW it, and move on.

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This is my first year and I am in my animation sub team and I feel that we have done nothing. Ok we have a story line but that is it. Because we are in Australia we are on holiday :D so the other sub teams in our team have had time to do lots of work. But for animation two people dropped :ahh: out to join Mech and I have not been going for a few days so there has been two people doing all the animation.

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We dont actually feel THAT behind this year, although that feeling is always present in some form. Feeling behind can also be used as a motivator to keep pushing through. The trick is to set plans and deadlines and work to make those. Setting smaller deadlines breaks down tasks into manageable pieces rather than one big deadline: ship date.
And theres always the saying:
Early= on time
on time= late
late= really late

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I would feel less behind if my Andymark and Banebots orders would actually arrive...