Our build season schedule is 5:00-7:30 Mon, Tue, Thu, and 9am-3pm Saturday. School ends at 4:00, but so few mentors are able to get there before 5:00 that we have an hour in between. This is enough time for students to get a quick dinner (Papa John's is across the street, and several other food places are within 1/2 mile of the school.) The head coach or another teacher friendly to the team usually has a classroom for team members to get in an hour of homework. As the season progresses, some sessions will run later, often just for one project or department. Saturdays usually wind up running a good bit longer later in build season. We rarely add Tuesdays, Fridays, or Sundays, and when we do, it is for a specific purpose, not a full team build.
Edit: During the 2014 build season, we experimented with more build time availability, but with the expectation that not all students or mentors would attend essentially every session. Communications and coordination between the various build groups broke down, and in about a week, we were back on our base schedule. Maybe with slack helping keep us in touch we might try something like this again. We have a prospective member with Saturday commitments, but who can work Sundays, and several of our mentors may be willing to do Sunday. We only have two regular mentors and three students who were around in 2014, and I am the only one who was a veteran that year, so we may give it a shot.
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Originally Posted by hutchMN
What about competition season schedule's? I'm really curious how many teams meet after stop build.
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We have the same base schedule between build and competition, but we're less likely to extend it and more likely to cancel for holidays and such than before bagging. A lot more of this is drive practice (the past three years we built two robots; in 2014 Woody was a wooden prototype for Buzz, and in 2015 and 2016 Peabody and R00 were essentially twins of Atlas and T1GGR).