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Work expands to fill the time available. We essentially did a double build season in 2010 since we had a later Regional and people were burned out at the end of the season. Students need a date to focus on otherwise they don't have a sense of urgency to complete it by the bag day.

There are advantages to building two robots, which is your incentive to raise more funds to do it.

The bag and tag restriction I find frustrating is the time that the kids really see the issues with the robot is during the competition. They become focused on the issues and their minds are churning on ideas on how to solve the problems and they are motivated. Then the Regional ends and we have to stick it in the bag until the next Regional. But I don't know how to allow build time between Regionals that would be fair to the first time participants at the next Regional. The solution would be to build a 2nd robot to test the changes on at home between Regionals.