[Mark Sheridan]

For me what burns me out is having to work during the week days. I have to fight traffic to get to my team and can spend up to an hour on the road. During a weekend, I get to my team's place in about 15 minutes.

I think given my circumstances, I would favor eliminating the 6 week build. I would much rather concentrate my time commitments to the weekend.

Also, our team is still struggling to get our practice bot and competition bot to behave the same. For the competition, robot, we sure could have used 20 minute on an official field or equivalent. For example, in LV we could not climb on one of the corners of the pyramid because a larger weld on a corner. We only practiced developed our climber on our pyramid which had smaller welds. Had we realized this sooner we would have made designee changes to fix this.

I figure a lot of teams would improve if they got to take their robots to a official field or equivalent and spend a couple hours honing their bot. Squeezing time in to do this on week 6 is not practical for many teams I know. Being able to do this on a week 7 or 8 would be huge.

Since I don't think this will change, we are going to keep on adding student and mentors to complete more tasks in parallel.