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Re: The 6 Week Build Season and 'Mentor Burnout'

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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
I would suggest the following: Each team may unbag their robot up to 3 times per week, for a grand total of 10 hours (remember the FIX-IT Windows from a few years back, guys? and how you had to use some ridiculous amount of time in one or two shots before they changed it?).
I don't see how this helps. You build a practice robot, spend all your time tweaking and perfecting on that, then unbag just fast enough to mount the mechanism to the actual robot and do a quick integration test. Then you move on to the next mechanism...
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