The 6 Week Build Season and 'Mentor Burnout'

[Walter Deitzler]

Originally Posted by ehfeinberg

Took 172 posts for a student to weigh in on the issue. Tells you something...

See what you don't understand about us students is that we don't know when to stop. By the time build season is over, I find that a large majority of the students are burnt out and need to take a break from robotics. I know a lot of people who towards the end of build season already start to fall ill and fall behind on school. Making build season longer would just hurt these students even more.

+1 to this.

On top of that, some of us students play a spring sport, that happens to begin right after build season is over. For most of spring, I am running competitions and games in parallel, going to state Latin conventions, and playing in my church and jazz bands, giving me little time to do the work I need to (I still get it done, somehow). If build season was expanded, I would be willing to cut my sport, but would not be happy about it, and would most likely end up ruining myself after trying to do sports, robotics, music and AP homework.

I vote, as a very active student, to keep the 6 week season. It fits my schedule nicely.