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Re: Hours spent during build season
We meet at the local community center/pool/gym, so we could only meet when the building was open to the public.
We met on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays from 6:30 to 9:00, Saturdays 9-5. We had a special strategy meeting on the Sunday after kickoff from 10-2 and of course Tuesday Bag Day was another 6:30-9:00 for many students, with some staying till midnight to finsh the robot and bag.
Not counting kickoff Saturday, that works out to 102 official hours of team meeting time which included students in a classroom/desk/lab configuration "upstairs" and students working in a shop/fabrication area "downstairs".
That does not include some of the extra hours that the design/CAD team spent offsite at a mentor's workplace to focus on CAD, nor some of the extra hours put in by the fabrication team to get the robot built. Fab was meeting every day for the past two weeks. There were a few nights of transporting the robot plus essential tools offsite to work later, e.g. until midnight on Bag and Tag day and well after midnight the evening before.
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