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Re: How much time do you spend on FIRST?
Since we werent exactly sure what we were doing, but had a lot of interested and motivated kids, we met nearly every day:
Tuesday-Friday 6pm-10/11pm
Saturday & Sunday 11am-7pm
Mondays were our rest day. Not everyone met on every day, tuesday/thursday/saturday were our main days, but I and the teacher at the least were usually at the school all other days to help build.
The students couldnt always stay late, but it was hard for our mentors to get out of work early, so we had to do later meetings.
Personally, I had to do an estimate for my company of how much time the Harris engineers were putting into it. I found there were 3 tiers:
Me: 45+ hr/wk (ugh, on top of my job!)
Our dedicated mentors: 25-30 hr/wk
Our supporting mentors: >10hr/wk
It totalled something insane like 2400 hours in the 6 weeks. Now can you imagine what that would cost our company if they actually paid us for it?!? lol. Luckily we had some very dedicated folks, and some very GREAT parents who fed us almost nightly!!
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