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Re: [FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey
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Originally Posted by efoote868
If stop build day is removed and our build season is extended, I doubt we'd keep a "team-only" stop build date.
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Why, though? It's not as if, even in the absence of the resources to build a second robot, there's a dearth of things to work on between bag day and competition. Your team is already making a choice to arbitrarily cease work on a certain date - why would the removal of the bag requirement force you to change that policy?
Re: mentor burnout, the worst burnout I've ever experienced was scrambling in 2014 to build a practice bot from scratch over spring break so that we could test our code on an actual robot, which we had not been able to do before bag day. (In addition to costing me my mental and physical health, this cost several team parents quite a bit of money out-of-pocket). This would not have happened in the absence of bag day. So, the notion that removing bag day would help me, as a mentor, to not burn out is flatly inconsistent with my experience.
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Last edited by Oblarg : 08-09-2016 at 13:42.
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