Weekly Schedule

[2348humanplayer]

We usually meet every day on week 1, and Mon, Wed, Fri the rest of the weeks are mandatory, Tues and Thurs are optional, but the really dedicated ones are there every weekday.

[class1234567]

We practice monday through friday 6-8pm ,and on saturdays around 8-12 hours depending on when we leave. We may work on sundays when it gets down to the wire. Hope this helps.

[lorem3k]

We work 6 days a week.
Early season: Around 12pm - 5pm
MId season: 9am - 5pm weekdays, 12pm - 5pm Saturdays
Late season: 9am - 10pm or later (3:35pm - 10pm on school days)
When we start adding hours depends on our progress. Usually we do 2 weeks of 12-5, 3 weeks of 9-5, and one week of 9-10. Our district has most of January off for final exams, so there are no classes.

[dk5sm5luigi]

Looks like we are on the low end of time spent. Our team works 8 hours a week and then work our way up to 12 hours a week. Then we put in 20 hours the last weekend.

[SarahBeth]

We are also on the low hours of time spent.

We work Tues/Thurs from 6-9 and Saturdays 10-4 for a total of....18 hours, I think. The last weekend and Monday/Tuesday before stop build is always around the clock, we usually get kicked out at midnight because thats when they lock the gates to the school. Stop Build Day always falls during February vacation so we don't have to worry about the kids being exhausted in school Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday.

I think the goal this year is to have a pretty full robot for practice by week 5. I do believe last year we got zero practice before it went into the bag.

[nathan_hui]

2473 usually has a handful (3-5) students in the shop from 2-6 on weekdays and from 10-6 on Saturdays. This usually goes until the very end. The rest of the working team (10-20 others, depending on the year) come in from 3-6 on some/most weekdays. We've had students spend upwards of 60 hours total, and some students a paltry 2 hours total. In total, it's looking like 600-700 man-hours of work to complete the robot, not including time spent at home, lunch, brunch, and (against the advice of some mentors) classtime. And definitely not including overtime (we'd go to 7 or 8 on some days).

One thing we've seen each year is that usually a small group of really dedicated and motivated students will build the majority of the robot. This is a group of maybe 5-7 students who live, breathe, and speak FRC for three months at the beginning of each calendar year.

In 2012, we tried to get a working robot by Week 4, but ended up a week behind. Working being meeting all (read most) design requirements. Our robot probably functioned by Week 3, but wasn't good enough (mostly software issues) until the end of Week 5, and still wasn't good enough for our liking.

[z_beeblebrox]

Our team plans to meet for at least 3 hours per day Monday through Friday and 6 hours on Sunday. Our goal is to build a fairly sophisticated prototype/ practice robot by week 3-ish and our competition robot by week 5. We would spend the remaining week practicing, optimizing and fixing things that break.

[MattC9]

Originally Posted by Gregor

About 40 hours a week, work everyday but Sunday.

40 hours a week is a full time 9-5 Job so that is saying you spend on average 6.6 hours a day at robotics. How do you do this with school for ~8hrs put of a 24hr day leaving you 16hrs for sleep and other things so if you do robotics for around 7 hours a day that leaves you with 9 hours for sleep homework and a little breathing room. So how do you pull a 40 hour week with school and leaving time for other activities?

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by MattC9

40 hours a week is a full time 9-5 Job so that is saying you spend on average 6.6 hours a day at robotics. How do you do this with school for ~8hrs put of a 24hr day leaving you 16hrs for sleep and other things so if you do robotics for around 7 hours a day that leaves you with 9 hours for sleep homework and a little breathing room. So how do you pull a 40 hour week with school and leaving time for other activities?

Monday-Friday 3:30-10
Saturday 10-6

I do homework at every break I get, on the bus/subway to and from school and robotics. More homework when I get home, and the occasional day off to catchup. Other activities take the back burner.

[MechEng83]

I (somewhat) jokingly tell people we meet 8 days a week.... because that's how it can feel.

We meet M-F from 6:30-9pm with Thursdays mandatory.
Saturday is 9am-5pm
Sunday is 1pm-4pm

The reason we have such a long gap between when school gets out to our meeting start time during the week is because most of our mentors have day jobs and can't really make it to the school until 6:30.

Students have to make 70% of the scheduled time, but we often meet outside those hours too (especially in the last week)

[FPSRussia]

My teams schedule goes:
Monday - friday 3-8:30
Saturday 9am-9pm
We useally use week 6 as full practice and week 5 for testing

[JJackson]

My schedule last year was 3:10-9ish or so(usually not as late first week but often later weeks 4-6) Monday to Friday
9-4 on Saturdays
Sundays at home (typically CADing/ catching up on sleep)
CAD- from when I got home until 1 usually (weekdays)
In total just under 270hrs at build.
Our latest night at build was probably 12:30.... We got our competition bot in the bag with five minutes to spare... Then we had to cleanup

There are typically 2-4 other students like this and about 3 or 4 mentors

Something we tried out last year with great success was each person was assigned a night to bring in supper. This brought out more people until the food was gone and let everyone else work later as we weren't as hungry.

[JM033]

Erryday except Sunday
Monday-Friday:5:30-8:30
Saturday:8am-4pm..times are consistent within the season.
23hrs weekly

[klmx30302]

Our teams schedule looks something like this:

Mon-Thursday: 6 to 9
Friday: 6 to 9 or afterschool to 9 if its a BAE off Friday
Saturday: 9 to 6 (9 if its crunchtime)
Sunday: 12 to 6 (9 to 9 if its crunchtime)

So our minimum hours per week is 30, however the amount per student varies widely.

[yarden.saa]

my team's schedule:
Sunday - Thursday: 18:00-23:00
Friday: 14:00-18:00
Saturday: 12:00-23:00