Meetings

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Originally Posted by lemiant

Hi Everyone,

How do you guys do meetings. Up until this point I have been on an FLL and FTC team and in both we had mandatory meetings at 2-3 per week. In both cases the robot was at my house and I would put in lots of hours on top of that, but other than that anomaly everyone put in the same number of hours at the same meetings. From what I've read on these forums, most teams do not appear to make up most of their work time from mandatory meetings. How does that work, and why do you do it? would it be possible to run an FRC team in which a large portion of the time is a result of mandatory meetings?

Thanks for your opinion,

- Lemaint

It depends on how big your team is, and how often the meetings are. After week 2, a handful of other students and I worked almost every day from after school (2:16) to 8 at the earliest. We weren't always working on one thing though. I'd be off cadding, while another one of these students was working with the freshman on the minibot, ect.

Another thing to consider is that too many hands leads to inefficient work. If you have ten people trying to do a two person job, either eight people will be standing around doing nothing (terrible for morale) or everyone will be working, in which case people will get in each others way making the work inefficient.

Depending on how many kids are on your team, I would consider making mandatory "build meetings." These would be meetings for a select group of individuals who really care about the robot, and are willing to do whatever it takes to finish it.

Hope this helps.