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Re: What was your schedule like for build season?

Summer: One day per week (I believe it was Thursday) working projects for about three hours, and about five hours on six Saturdays with a "Robot Camp" training and in-house scrimmage.

Aug-Dec: Mon and Thu, 5:00-7:00. Mostly, we worked on the air cannon for the football games and did "tryouts" because the air cannon brought us enough recruits that we could afford to be choosy. After tryouts, we worked on a prototype 6-wheel drive platform which was never completed.

Build Season (most of the weeks):
Mon, Tue, Thu 5:00 - 7:30. (School ends about 4, and there was a study hall in the lab for an hour, also allowing mentors time to arrive.)
Sat 9-3:30, but often extending a few hours later; few went past 7pm.

MLK day and Lundi Gras/Washington's birthday/President's day were school and federal holidays. We did not have a full team meeting, but the programmers and a few control team members followed a Saturday schedule.

We did our marathon bag-and-tag session a few days early, 9am - 11pm on Saturday, and took Tuesday (Mardi Gras locally, or Stop Build Day to the rest of FRC) off as a team, which was how I was able to post so much to CD that day. (I had at least as much fun as if I'd gone to Rex on St. Charles Avenue, and stayed a whole lot warmer!)

If you're paying attention, you noticed the second programming day after our bag and tag. We built two (nearly) identical robots. They were close enough that we swapped which one we we bagged and which was for practice about 2pm on Saturday; we bagged Peabody and are practicing and programming on Atlas. We'll pick up with the build season schedule again on Monday and continue until Bayou Regional, at least for programmers and drivers. I suspect it will be nearly everybody, as we are rebuilding the pit and we still have checklists, scouting forms, spirit, and a bunch of other things to wrap up before we go to competition.
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