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Re: [FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey
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Originally Posted by Lireal
Because students burnout to. If the build season was just one weej longer last year, it would have been great for our small team. But build season always hurts our grades, and adding another week of suboptimal schoolwork would have put many of the students on my team even farther behind. There are still plenty of ways to continue the stem experience, like watch week 1 competitions or preparing for competition. Extending the build season will not expamd the experience any farther than it already is, but wil insteadl negatively the students.
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I have yet to hear a truly convincing argument that eliminating bag day would significantly increase the amount of work most teams do.
In all of my FRC experience, I've only ever built a practice bot once, but I've worked on something or another between the end of build season and the start of competition every single year.
So, this doesn't seem to me an issue of "not increasing the workload." We might be able to reduce the workload were we to instead implement harsher restrictions on the ability of teams to work after bag day, but it is not clear to me a) how these would actually work in practice and b) whether that's actually desirable in the first place.
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