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Re: Weekly Schedule
2473 usually has a handful (3-5) students in the shop from 2-6 on weekdays and from 10-6 on Saturdays. This usually goes until the very end. The rest of the working team (10-20 others, depending on the year) come in from 3-6 on some/most weekdays. We've had students spend upwards of 60 hours total, and some students a paltry 2 hours total. In total, it's looking like 600-700 man-hours of work to complete the robot, not including time spent at home, lunch, brunch, and (against the advice of some mentors) classtime. And definitely not including overtime (we'd go to 7 or 8 on some days).
One thing we've seen each year is that usually a small group of really dedicated and motivated students will build the majority of the robot. This is a group of maybe 5-7 students who live, breathe, and speak FRC for three months at the beginning of each calendar year.
In 2012, we tried to get a working robot by Week 4, but ended up a week behind. Working being meeting all (read most) design requirements. Our robot probably functioned by Week 3, but wasn't good enough (mostly software issues) until the end of Week 5, and still wasn't good enough for our liking.
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