Let me preface this by stating this is our second year (4134). Our school district is a urban central school struggling to meet the needs of a very diverse student body.

We ran a post season group last year that built and thoroughly tested the drive system we used this year. It was a very casual group that met 1-2 times per week until the end of the regular school year. Kids were not pressured to attend and we had some good laughs and alot of learning. The curve was much longer and we were dealing with one task.

Not all stundent want to be engineers this does not mean they are not interested and shouldn't be included. We have very involved students all the way to very casual. We have a fundraising group, an art group and CAD group. Due to the FIRST program at our school 2 new regular classes were added this year, SolidWorks and 101 robotics that uses the Lego platform with Labview programming. The FRC group bought the district the programming license.

We also have a deal in the works with the City Rec. department to provide the same Lego program to youth groups throughout the summer. This group will be led by studentds from the club and class.

What does this have to do with extending the build season 2 weeks for testing and debugging as I originally suggested?