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Originally Posted by IndySam
You are lucky, many schools won’t allow students to do what you did yesterday.
No amount of will will change that.
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No, but a little creative thinking can at least make something out of nothing.
- If everyone is stuck at home, open up an AIM Chat room with all your team members and discuss strategy (or anything) for your upcoming regional(s).
- If your team owns some Vex robots, make a "programming platform". Put some sensors on it, and let the programmers bring it home. Several hours with a gyro or accelerometer on a Vex robot and they could have the basis for advanced sensor feedback well underway.
- If your school won't let you even work on the robot outside of school, you can always work in Inventor or 3DSMax.
- You can work on your Chairman's and Woodie Flower awards at home.
- You can work on your team's website at home.
- You could go to your sponsor's shop (if possible), and work there.
- You can work on pep club/team spirit buttons, banners, etc. from anywhere.
- If your team does any sort of video production during the competition season, you can work on capturing and beginning to edit video at home.
- If any of the students on your team have Vex robots, have them build 1/3 scale Mini FRC robot. Once the ship date is over, you can build a 1/3 scale rack and ringers and have a cheap practice robot.
While this may not be as good as actually working on the robot, at the very least you can accomplish something useful.
I understand many team's frustrations with the weather, as New England has about every weather extremity imaginable except earthquakes and tsunamis. There's not much you can do about the weather, except try to make the most out of the situation.
And if it comes down to it, all-nighters are your friend.
If on Tuesday, FedEx is still closed or cannot access a large portion of the country, then FIRST may decide to extend the ship date by a day or two. But not any longer than that. FedEx still has all the logistics of sorting out 1300 crates and getting them to their destinations in time for Week 1 Regionals, and that is no small feat!
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Originally Posted by mzclayton55
Even NASA will postpone a flight when the weather is bad. Airlines will even change their schedule because of the weather. That’s the real world!
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With NASA and the Space Shuttle, billions of dollars worth of equipment and seven lives are on stake. With the airlines, there are a lot of assets (such as the planes themselves), employees, and passengers that they do not want to put at stake. But think of the ship date in another way:
Your boss/client expects a major presentation to be done by set date, but the weather is so bad that you cannot get to work to finish it up. If your client is in China, they don't know of or care about your bad weather, they want their presentation done to meet their deadline. So to meet your deadline, you Remote Desktop into your work computer to finish it up from home.