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Re: Hours spent during build season

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Originally Posted by marccenter View Post

Personally my wife finds my commitment very disruptive to our relationship so using more time for the robot team is not practical. I am very happy that the RoboRavens#1 (1188) coach and I build together allowing us to make both of our work and personal issues more manageable.
I would like to hear more mentor's opinions experience with this. I have had the same problem for years.

We spend Tues, Wed, Friday 6-9 and Saturday 9-1 plus the Sunday 9-2 after kickoff. Generally as the lead mentor/coach I get done about an hour after the kids leave. I am here EVERY day. This gives me just enough time to do planning and correcting during build season (I teach). I've long ago given up trying to correct and robot at the same time. I always seem to be trying and failing to achieve the work, robot, home balance. How do you other mentors do it?

Many of our students are in AP classes and can't commit to more time than this. We also have students in winter activities and sports. How do your students do it? Would love to hear more.
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