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Originally Posted by Yov
Well not all of us here speak english heh...
New question!
A simple one at that, the amount of work seems to be something most of my class is worried about, I was wondering how often do you work on the robots during the 6 weeks? (days per week, hours per day, again keeping in mind that we are a rookie team with 25-35 students)
thanks!
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This can vary wildly. My team always had a very small dedicated core that showed up to all meetings. We pretty much met every day, on weekdays, 2-3 hours, weekends, almost all day, sometimes with a day or two between meetings when we were waiting on parts and had nothing else to work one. Since we would only have a maximum of around 10 people who would show up and actually worked instead of sitting around, the core members spent tons of time during the build season.
You guys have the advantage of all knowing nothing about FIRST. Yes, advantage. You don't have to be the freshman that sits there and isn't allowed to do anything because you "don't know how". You ALL don't know how! You all get to start from the same place and learn together, and soon enough between the 30 of you, you'll all be building a robot.
No matter how many people you have on your team, FIRST is a very large time committment. This turns people off immediately, but I guarentee you that every person who puts the time into the program will reap it's benefits and learn a lot about fields you may not have been exposed to otherwise.
Cory