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Originally Posted by cmrnpizzo14
For the teams that work 40+ hours a week, do you really find it being that beneficial? I feel that with our team working a max of about 16 hours a week during the standard build season we field incredibly competitive robots and if we added more hours we would burn out and just lose productivity.
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Could we build a robot in less time, yes. Would our team be nearly as close to each other as we are and would we be able to help as many other teams, probably not. We're also exchanging time for other resources that we don't have like lathe and mill access. Like I said this isn't the entire team, last year around 5 students probably put in that amount in most weeks and that's time with the team, they're not always working on the robot.
The way our team runs, I don't leave until the last student does (as in there are no set end times to our meetings) and normally I'm their later working on things like the blog, ordering parts, helping other teams over email, and reading CD.