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Originally Posted by jman4747
Okay lets see how eliminating bag day can help with what you listed...
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I don't understand what side you're advocating. You seem to be trying to say that eliminating bag day would help sustainability, but your arguments do not help me toward that position.
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1. Money- Reduced shipping costs
- Greater ability to get parts made as opposed to purchasing them
- More time during the season to worry about other things like fundraising
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How does not putting the robot in a bag do anything to shipping costs?
How does taking longer to make parts save money over making them with a shorter deadline?
How does lengthening the "build season" give any more time?
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2.Mentors/Head Coach- More spare time for experienced mentors to help rookies
- A less frequent meeting schedule can give a mentor, who can only come to a fraction of a teams meetings, more of an effect on the team.*
- Less frequent meetings could give a head coach more time off or more time during the season to deal with admin duties on a week to week basis
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Again, how does lengthening the "build season" give any more time?
If a mentor can only come to a fraction of the meetings, how is making the meetings farther apart going to help?
If you're not suggesting fewer meetings total, how does that give anyone more time off?
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3.Build space- If for whatever reason you need to find build space (unsupportive school for instance) less frequent access needs and shorter necessary access times could make it easier to convince someone to let you use their space.
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I suppose there might be some contrived situation where it would be more possible to access a space less frequently, but you've totally broken your argument by suggesting that the time you need it would simultaneously be
shorter.
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4.Student team members- A student who can't currently commit much time to the build season can now show up less frequently and make it to a higher percentage of meetings.
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I don't understand this at all, sorry. If you show up less frequently, how can you attend more?
I assume that you want to argue that a student who can only commit to a certain number of meetings per week will make it to more meetings in total if they are spread out over a longer time. I will grant that as a possibility, but it seems more likely to me that a student who does not have robotics as a priority (for whatever reason) under the current system will not make more of a commitment if the build season gets longer.