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Re: How many hours does your team work during the build season? Pol

By my count, my team has around 20 "scheduled" hours for meetings (significantly more the first couple weeks-- ~30-35), but our schedule doesn't count the considerable amount of students who come in at 9AM on Saturday and don't leave until it's Sunday. I'd say the team average for "shop time" is around 25-30 hours, with some members pushing that up to 40+.

If we're counting non-shop time I think it would be a little bit scary to see what number that ended up as.

To be honest, thus far we haven't noticed our robot performance go up with more hours, mostly because we haven't really held to any sort of schedule or had any strategic plan that we held to throughout the season. Time can only get you so far. The extra time mostly goes towards getting everyone on the team comfortable with each-other.
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