[Grim Tuesday]

1.) We are building two robots for the first time this year as well. However, we're cheating a little bit, and pre-building the frame for the first one in the pre-season. It's a gamble that 6WD will be good for this years game, but it generally is. I hope it pays off.

2.) We meet 5-9 every week day, and 9-5 on Saturday until the robot goes in the bag. We've never met after the season was over, considering the sleep state of the whole team, but this year we will be making the drive team and a few subteams meet after the fact to finish stuff up

3.) Strategy is done on the Sunday and Monday after kickoff; the Sunday is a small group of people, the Monday is those people presenting to the team, discussing, and deciding (prioritizing). Next, the entire team (and we have a 60 person team) breaks up into temporary design groups, who pick apart our strategy, and decide what the best way to play it is (drive train, arm vs elevator, etc...), and then we recombine as a team, and pick a final design. At that point, the team breaks up into the three pillar subteams: Control, Design, and Machining

To cut a long story short, the frame should be welded by the end of week 2, and subsystems should be starting to get fabricated. They should be on by the end of week 3, but of course, it gets pushed back; last year we didn't have our elevator on until the last day. So thats something we need to work on. So in summary:
2 days-strategy
2 days-general design
~7 days-subsystem design