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Originally Posted by thunderbotsgirl
Hi All!
During this lock in, we took their phones and they didn't have them until their parents got them. They were extremely productive and now that they've been meeting since their lock in, they're still productive, but I noticed that they use their phones while working which I can't help but think slows them down a bit. I know they don't have their phones during school, so I really don't want to be that mentor, but at the same time I'm just wondering what other teams have in place for this kind of thing.
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Don't be that mentor. Remembering back to when I was a student I was more than happy to put my phone away if I was asked to do something productive instead of doing whatever I was doing on my phone 99% of the time. No 14-18 year old wants to be told to put there phone away just because an adult says so. They just dealt with that for 6 hours earlier in the day. Also remember that these are students not machines. 15 minutes spent on a phone every once and a while is a necessary part of life and is potentially necessary for them to be in the shop in the first place.
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Originally Posted by sanddrag
People on our team work. People who don't work aren't on our team. The phone can be a tool or a toy. Students on our team use it as a tool. Students who use it as a toy are not on our team.
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This pretty much describes how my teams treat phones. They are often used to look up stuff like drill and tap charts, vexpro part numbers, COTS part dimensions and old robot photos amungst other uses. People that want to sit on Facebook all day generally opt to do so from the comfort of there own home and not a noisy and hot machine shop. People that want to spend there day working on the robot or helping out with our phone based scouting system come into the shop with both of those tasks requiring the occasional use of cell phones.