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Re: Limits on Team Hours

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Originally Posted by SouthCarolinaRo View Post
We are getting ready to begin our third year and the amount of hours students are putting into Robotics is very concerning to me. Most importantly, safety. Either driving late at night or being careless with equipment because of lack of sleep.

I am the parent of two kids playing high school basketball. Which takes place for the first half of our build season. Our robotics kids put in three to five times as many hours than my kids do their high school teams.

I think it is totally crazy to see this much time being spent building a robot. I do not think it was the intent of FIRST to have students devote this many hours building a robot. Not during a school year.
The level of effort that some students expend is not for every student. I managed to do FRC, race varsity alpine for my HS (during the entire FRC season), and get good grades. It was an enormous amount of work, but I started to find out where my limits were both mentally and physically, which is probably one of the most valuable things I've ever learned and most definitely contributed to my success in college.

I find no fault with someone who devotes a large (even excessive) amount of time to pursuing what they are passionate about.
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