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Re: The 6 Week Build Season and 'Mentor Burnout'
Everyone who knows me knows that I am all for getting rid of the 6 week build season.
My team meets 7 days a week during build season and 7 days a week during competition season too(except for the Wednesday after bag and when I'm away at competition).
The best teams are building for 16 weeks either way and spending a lot of time and money doing it.
My main problem with the 6 week build season is we have so little time to help struggling teams. We do two rookie workshops, a bumper build and hold a scrimmage which is really just more time to work on robots. All of these events plus teams coming to our shop on various days still isn't enough time to get some teams competitive. If we had up until right before competition we could have several more practice events to get robots ready for actual competition. The few teams with copy bots in our area already do this, why should we exclude those teams without the resources (yes I know they can go out and work to get the resources, it doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make it easier for them).
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Team 647 | Cyber Wolf Corps | Alumni | 2003-2006 | Shoemaker HS
Team 2587 | DiscoBots | Mentor | 2008-2011 | Rice University / Houston Food Bank
Team 3847 | Spectrum | Coach | 2012-20... | St Agnes Academy
LRI | Alamo Regional | 2014-20... "Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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