Snow days

[Ginger Power]

rzoeller Minnesota public schools were just shut down for Monday due to the cold. Our team has changed our plans to use the entire day as a work day. Any other Minnesota teams taking advantage of this?

4607 plans to unofficially meet. Just a couple members from the design and strategy teams plan on brainstorming ideas.

[Bryan Herbst]

Originally Posted by Ginger Power

rzoeller Minnesota public schools were just shut down for Monday due to the cold. Our team has changed our plans to use the entire day as a work day. Any other Minnesota teams taking advantage of this?

4607 plans to unofficially meet. Just a couple members from the design and strategy teams plan on brainstorming ideas.

Our school does not allow the mentors to schedule meetings when school has been canceled. Though the students are free to get together on their own, the mentors cannot tell them to show up anywhere.

[TheKeeg]

Usually, if school is closed then we cannot meet at the school. Today, for instance, we had a snow day and our 6:00-9:00 meeting was canceled. Tomorrow will probably be canceled as well. This is not the way I wanted to start the build season.

[MechEng83]

Originally Posted by TheKeeg

Usually, if school is closed then we cannot meet at the school. Today, for instance, we had a snow day and our 6:00-9:00 meeting was canceled. Tomorrow will probably be canceled as well. This is not the way I wanted to start the build season.

Better in week 1 than in week 6.

[TheKeeg]

Originally Posted by MechEng83

Better in week 1 than in week 6.

This is very true.

[Qbot2640]

Our county just announced the next two days will be 2 hour delay days, because of very cold morning temperatures. How awesome is that? Prototyping later in the evening, 'cause the kids now get to sleep in for two more hours!

[TheKeeg]

Originally Posted by Qbot2640

Our county just announced the next two days will be 2 hour delay days, because of very cold morning temperatures. How awesome is that? Prototyping later in the evening, 'cause the kids now get to sleep in for two more hours!

I wish my school district would only delay school instead of canceling it. Like another said, at least this is only week 1 and not the end of week 6.

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by Tanis

Our school does not allow the mentors to schedule meetings when school has been canceled. Though the students are free to get together on their own, the mentors cannot tell them to show up anywhere.

This system works well for us considering we live in Minnesota and there are sure to be more snow days on the way.

[Ed Sparks]

Even in the deep south (Alabama), we were shut down due to the weather.

[crafty]

Originally Posted by Ed Sparks

Even in the deep south (Alabama), we were shut down due to the weather.

We were too

[Walter Deitzler]

We wanted to have an 8+ hour meeting today, but the huge amounts of snow made it so that not eve the janitors could get into the building. We do have approval though, that as long as there are janitors, we can be at the school building. Tomorrow we are hoping they can make it in (they are usually told to come in on snow days, unless the weather is REALLY bad), so that we can have a long meeting.

On the plus side, it gave me time to finish chassis and electronic board CAD .

[Whippet]

Originally Posted by Ed Sparks

Even in the deep south (Alabama), we were shut down due to the weather.

It's going to be a balmy 30ish degrees here in west Texas tomorrow, so school will proceed as normal.

[Darth Drew]

On snow days, our mentor has to contact the administrators to see if we're allowed to meet later in the day, unfortunately we weren't today, fingers crossed for tomorrow.

[AndyBare]

Yep. Here in Georgia, school is closed tomorrow. "Too cold" crap. No robotics.

[Ryan Dognaux]

No meetings for us today or tomorrow due to the snow & -23 degree wind chill here in the St. Louis area. Better to happen now than week 5 or 6 though I suppose.