[Cothron Theiss]

So this year our team had a few issues with scheduling in the beginning of the season; the students and mentors were really limited on when we could get access to our shop. Starting out it was 6-8 on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays and then 10-3, which totals to 11 hours a week. Then we sat some people down and got the shop opened up to much longer hours, to about 26 hours of scheduled shop time per week. As for my own total, I logged 173 shop hours and 210 personal hours during build season, totaling 383 hours. I did all of the CAD modeling for my team this year, and I coordinated much of the parts orders, so I ended up having more late nights with my laptop than actual hours with the robot. The team captain and lead programmer on our team put in about 300 hours in a similar fashion, but past that everyone's individual totals were much lower for our team. We're both seniors, so our GPA's aren't near as sensitive this semester.