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Originally Posted by NWChen
After GTR-E (for an NYC team like us, a 13-hour bus ride each way) many of our team members were exhausted and burnt out. Missing school also affected some of us academically, since we returned to all the tests and classwork we'd missed. I imagine it's even harder for teams who go to Champs and the like.
I've read the "mentor burnout" thread but it doesn't answer my question. What can students do to recover from burnout after either the build season or a competition?
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I think you've got to come at the problem from the root cause. Meet less, and put safeguards in place so people don't burn out. Work expands to fill available time. It is dangerous for the sustainability of FRC if we continue to burn out our students, mentors, and other volunteers year after year. The best way to deal with burnout is to not burnout in the first place. If you aren't sick of robots at the end of a build day or build season, you're much less likely to be sick of robots after a day or two of competition. You want your team to leave the event hungry to do better things, not exhausted and sick of robots.