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Re: Snow days

As a team that operates out of a Boys and Girls Club, we have some distinct advantages (and some glaring disadvantages) over a team based out of a school when it comes to snow.

One of these advantages made itself apparent at last year's WPI Regional. It snowed from early Thursday morning clear through to extremely late Friday. Most school districts in the area had school cancelled by Wednesday afternoon. This left some other teams participating at WPI in the lurch, while we were able to manage a trip Thursday unimpeded by red tape.

One of our disadvantages, however, is that on snow days, the club closes, and means if we are to have a meeting, team members have to find a way to our club, and that's assuming we feel comfortable meeting on a day like that.

I've dealt with snow in the past with a school team; in high school, I remember one particularly bad season where we lost a day a week on average to snow.

Dealing with snow is a challenge to (FIRST) life in the northern parts of the US and many other countries and areas. Having a successful season is all about overcoming obstacles, and I've come across some harder obstacles than snow.
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