[Alan Anderson]

The last few years we've had a build season shop schedule with 23 "official" shop hours per week, plus a couple of additional six-hour days on the MLKJr and President's Day school holidays. Unofficial shop hours will sometimes double or even triple that as the Stop Build deadline approaches.

There are a bit more than thirty defined shop sessions during the six weeks, plus a few more after Stop Build, and a student must be productive during at least half of them in order to be eligible to travel with the team. If students can find a pair of mentors to supervise them, only one thing stops them from putting in as much time as they want. The teachers try to keep track of grades, and students will be told to go home and study if they're not doing their part to maintain acceptable grades.