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Re: Snow days

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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.
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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.
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Re: Snow days

Even in the deep south (Alabama), we were shut down due to the weather.
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Even in the deep south (Alabama), we were shut down due to the weather.
We were too
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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.
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Re: Snow days

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 .
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Re: Snow days

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.
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Re: Snow days

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

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.
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Re: Snow days

My team is from Connecticut. We have this very unfortunate situation this evening involving the fact that all day today it's been over 50 degrees and raining steadily... and tomorrow the absolute high temperature is 15 degrees. The temperature drop and flash freezing starts tonight.

The snow days and mass cancellations of after-school activities have already cut out tonight's 6:30-9:00 meeting, and if we lose tomorrow's school day, which it's likely that we will, that's another one out the window.

Our team likes to treat snow days as "No school? Let's treat it like a Saturday!" (on Saturdays during build we meet from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm), but it's a little different when the roads are coated in ice.
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Re: Snow days

Just something to think about:

With bad weather, closed schools and limited resources...

FIRST teams might want to consider ways to communicate that reduce travel and team practices that are practical in the event we have more bad weather like this as an example.

In the grander scheme if for no other reason then perhaps to tap mentoring and knowledge from more remote people that might be just too far away.

More and more businesses in the professional world are working remotely.
People make stuff in China all the time and clearly they all don't go to China to do it.

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With bad weather, closed schools and limited resources...

FIRST teams might want to consider ways to communicate that reduce travel and team practices that are practical in the event we have more bad weather like this as an example.

In the grander scheme if for no other reason then perhaps to tap mentoring and knowledge from more remote people that might be just too far away.
We're losing at least 3 days at the beginning of build season (yesterday, today, and tomorrow) so far, plus the makeup days where we usually meet all day, including the day before bag day.

On the communication front, I had a nice long meeting with my engineering captain this afternoon by Skype. We got a lot accomplished, though certainly not as much as if we were able to meet in person.
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Re: Snow days

Since people usually overreact to "cold weather" in Louisiana [its 34 here]...schools have been delayed and even cancelled around Baton Rouge. Thankfully, our school is smarter and instead of delaying, they're letting us wear jeans instead of the uniform shorts/skirts.
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Re: Snow days

You all are more than welcome to come to Israel. It's going to be a cozy high of 68 degrees, with lows in the lower 50's....

Seriously though, stay safe everyone The weather sounds horrible
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Re: Snow days

Our school cancelled after school activities today due to bad roads, so myself and a few other team members had a google hangout to discuss designs and the game itself. It was much more helpful than not communicating with each other at all.
This type of build season with lots of cancellations is nothing new for us New Englanders.
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