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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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1124's current build schedule:
We meet Monday-Thursday 6:30-9, Saturday 8-5, Sunday 12-5
This schedule runs from kickoff until we're done competing. The only changes happen when our school is on break (when we meet more often and for longer) and the Wed-Thurs after bag/ship day (which we take off to recover). Team members show up as they're needed and are pretty much free to make their own schedules and can choose their own time commitment; most members are there 3-4 days a week, but can be there more or less at their own discretion.
If we had an open build season, what would change? Probably nothing, or very little. We're already at the ceiling of the required commitment, and our existing schedule already burns us out (you should have seen me after CTR this year - I was an exhausted mess, but I digress). If anything, our stress levels would drop significantly. Not having to build a second robot would reduce budgetary and emotional strain. We'd get more practice time with the actual robot.
Now, I don't know if an open build holds all the answers, but I see some problems it would reduce (however, not being a mentor, I can't speak to all the unintended side effects that might arise, nor how it would affect mentors specifically). But with strict regard to 1124's meeting schedule, I think not much would change from the way it is now.