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Originally Posted by Ian Curtis
We schedule 100-120 hours a build season and tack on at most 20 additional hours of build. We come in at well under 200 hrs a season for a typical team member (+ events & practice - missed meetings) and I have a hard time believing we are uniquely qualified to balance the FIRST/life equation.
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The hours I have posted come from talking to lots of teams in WA. I'm not saying it can't be done in 100-120 hours because I did that this season with my rookie team. That was the hours that the school set for the teachers that rotated the duty of sitting in the corner grading papers until it was time to lock the build space for the night.
On the other hand I know several teams that typically meet 4-6 or more hrs per week day and 6-8 or even 10 or 12 on Sat through out the build season and then meet at least 20 or more hours per week through the competition season not including events.
When I was with 2046 there were two years we had the shop open and working furiously from the time school got out on Fri until Midnight on bag day, or about 105 hrs in the last half of the last week. No not everyone was there all of those hours as there were 3 shifts but a handful of people, both students and mentors worked more than one 8 hour shift per day.