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Originally Posted by Ed Law
Tell me what you will do with your team, not what you think other teams you don't know anything about may do. Otherwise this discussion here is meaningless.
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174's Current build schedule:
We have split the team between "crews", and each crew meets at different days throughout the week. The days we have for work is Tuesday, Thursday and Friday after-school, 2:30pm till 8pm or later depending on the need. Saturday work sessions are from 9am till 4pm or later depending. We meet all of these days throughout the entire build season. We also have a group of students and mentors who work of site. These students/mentors work very long nights, typically around 11pm, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and other days the extra work is needed.
How we would deal with open build:
Rinse and repeat, only skipping a few days before our competition weeks. While we could deal with the additional school work hours, the off-site team (which is the biggest core of our build students and mentors) will be beyond burnt out.
We have already had a team discussion about mentor burn out before this thread was started, and I can say that I am very scared for our mentor sustainability if additional build time was given. That said, we can adapt - there are problems with our system as it is and working to fix it.