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Re: How long does your team plan?

It shocks me to see teams with numbers lower than ours waiting till week 3 or 4 to start building parts.

That's unheard of on Team 237.
Week 1:
Saturday: Kickoff - Members watch NASA TV or webcast.
Sunday: Team kickoff brunch/luncheon where everyone on the team who didn't watch kickoff live gets the game basics and learns what is in the kit.
Monday: Kids are expected to have read the manual and be ready to discuss game play and strategy - Go over kit parts again to learn what we can use.
Tuesday: Come up with ways to win and get the most points.
Weds: Accomplish ideas for how to "do" the "what" discussed on Tuesday.
Thursday: Mechanical & Electrical split off from rest of team and tweak details of design.
Friday: Finish overall system design, start subsystems.
If the metal chips in the metal shop start flying on Friday we are very happy with ourselves.
If they start flying Monday, we are still happy.. but that just means something requires a little more attention than normal.

Weeks 2-5:
Build, Test, Rebuild, Assemble, Build, Test, Rebuild, Assemble.
Week 5.75-6: Give to electrical team to wire as we are packing it in the crate.

You don't know what 6 weeks worth of stress is unless you are on the Electrical team within 237, but then you have had 5.5 weeks of relaxing and .5 weeks of hardcore work so you better be up to it!


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Originally Posted by Royalpride1070 View Post
i think the longer u spend planning.. the better your robot will be.
Flipside point of view: Plan for too long, and don't have enough time to "do".

Those 42ish days fly by faster than you realize.
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