Students, Time put into start of build - end of season?

[joelg236]

Probably somewhere around 400-500 hours during build season, and easily 300+ after.

I didn't go to school...

[rkbot]

Originally Posted by joelg236

Probably somewhere around 400-500 hours during build season, and easily 300+ after.

I didn't go to school...

That is what the other team member and i were like last year. We were both walking zombies, he got mono and missed a month of school right after all the competitions too.

Did your grades drop a lot from missing the school? Mine last year were about 10% lower than they should have been.

[joelg236]

Originally Posted by rkbot

That is what the other team member and i were like last year. We were both walking zombies, he got mono and missed a month of school right after all the competitions too.

Did your grades drop a lot from missing the school? Mine last year were about 10% lower than they should have been.

Yup. I finished 66% of high school in grade ten, and am now barely graduating. With a much lower average than I could make.

[rkbot]

I love how this teaches more than we will ever learn from school but hurts our education in highschool.

[Connerd]

I actually kept track of this during the 2014 season. I spent ~700 hours working on our robot. This involves actual build sessions, my study halls, my lunch hours, my Saturdays, my entire spring break (actually spent more time with the robot than my family, including sleep), and competitions.
I probably should have noticed that I didn't have a life around the 350~400 hour mark...,
<edit> Oh, did I mention that I didn't go into robotics at all this week, and am staying home on Saturday, just to catch up on my homework and badly-missed sack time? </edit>

[alexander.h]

Personally, I've been there every single time during build season and I've put in 250-300 hours during the 6 weeks. I can't imagine how some people could put in 500 hours! I struggled to find time to do homework and projects (while maintaining a 94% average). I don't know how I would have survived 500 hours!

[sanddrag]

I have over 700 hours. Our top student has over 500, with a few others over 400. All have over 180.

As a team, we've put in about 10,000 man-hours this season.

[adammiller3122]

Our team clocks in and out for the purpose of tracking time. I had 84 hours. The next highest had 64 hours.

I love robotics, but I don't think that I could imagine myself doing 700+ hours of robotics. I know that it would be fun, but between work and school, I don't think that I had that much time even! That 84 hours doesn't count any home stuff at all.

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by T^2

500-600 hours. About the same as last year.

This comes out to 11.9 - 14.3 hours a day if you worked every day this build season.

Originally Posted by joelg236

Probably somewhere around 400-500 hours during build season, and easily 300+ after.

I didn't go to school...

This comes out to 9.5-11.9 hours a day if you worked every day this build season.

Originally Posted by sanddrag

I have over 700 hours. Our top student has over 500, with a few others over 400. All have over 180.

As a team, we've put in about 10,000 man-hours this season.

Now, this. 700 is roughly 16.6 hours a day if you worked every day this build season. Even if you meant the entire season, let's take a 12 week period, that comes out to 8.3 hours a day.

Now, I'm not one to deny the time we give to the program, but I don't believe any of you.

Personally, I'm staring down the barrel at around 114 hours spent in the shop during build season.

- Sunny G.

[rkbot]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

This comes out to 11.9 - 14.3 hours a day if you worked every day this build season.



This comes out to 9.5-11.9 hours a day if you worked every day this build season.



Now, this. 700 is roughly 16.6 hours a day if you worked every day this build season. Even if you meant the entire season, let's take a 12 week period, that comes out to 8.3 hours a day.

Now, I'm not one to deny the time we give to the program, but I don't believe any of you.

Personally, I'm staring down the barrel at around 114 hours spent in the shop during build season.

- Sunny G.

I know this year i was at robotics from usually 3-8,9,10 weeknights and later of Fridays, along with 11am until the early ams the next morning ( we pulled 1 all nighter on week 2 or 3 that was a 22 hour shift). and usually from 11 or 12 until 5, 6 or 7pm on Sundays. I know it is a stretch for 500 hours during build season but i think its possible because i know last year, i didn't even go home on weekends usually it was Friday until 3-5 in the morning and back the next morning sometimes before 11, same with the Saturday night and Sunday morning.

And btw u cant look at an average because you are not going to work the same number of hours on a weekday as a weekend. I know my longest shift this season was 22 hours. Whatever work you do on the weekend will push your average up greatly especially if you spend all your time at robotics when you are not at school.

Always too much, and never enough. I'm not gonna count the hours, but during the build season I spent more hours daily in the shop than I did in my own home. And my time at home was spent on CAD.

[notmattlythgoe]

We usually have a student or 2 pushing 170 for the build season. But I don't think we had a single one over 120 this season. We only meet 4 days a week throughout the build season and we built the best robot we've ever built this season. We stress to our students that your grades must come first and that robotics comes second. More hours does not always equal a better product.

[Musikman]

Based on the attendance information and rough estimates, my entire team put in just over 3500 hours during build season. I don't want to even imagine how many extra thousands of hours went in outside the six weeks of build season.

[pntbll1313]

Originally Posted by rkbot

I know this year i was at robotics from usually 3-8,9,10 weeknights and later of Fridays, along with 11am until the early ams the next morning ( we pulled 1 all nighter on week 2 or 3 that was a 22 hour shift). and usually from 11 or 12 until 5, 6 or 7pm on Sundays. I know it is a stretch for 500 hours during build season but i think its possible because i know last year, i didn't even go home on weekends usually it was Friday until 3-5 in the morning and back the next morning sometimes before 11, same with the Saturday night and Sunday morning.

And btw u cant look at an average because you are not going to work the same number of hours on a weekday as a weekend. I know my longest shift this season was 22 hours. Whatever work you do on the weekend will push your average up greatly especially if you spend all your time at robotics when you are not at school.

I'm still a little skeptical of people around the 500 mark. I understand it is possible and that you can't really use an average to prove or disprove it but...

46 day build season, 14 of which are weekend, 32 are weekdays.

if every single weekday looks like this:
[(6 hours sleep)+(45 min time from wake up to dress and get to school and before bell rings)+(7 hours school)] * 32 days
=440 hours

if every single weekend looks like this:
[(5.5 hours sleep)+(30 min commute each day)] * 14 days
=84 hours

There are 1104 hours in 46 days so there are only possibly 580 hours available left to work. I know that many people feel like there schedules looked like this but I doubt many actually were. I also didn't include any time to get homework done. Quite a few students chimed in that their grades dropped which is a little troubling. That is definitely something my team doesn't believe in. We tell them that school is always the most important.

[rkbot]

Originally Posted by pntbll1313

I'm still a little skeptical of people around the 500 mark. I understand it is possible and that you can't really use an average to prove or disprove it but...

46 day build season, 14 of which are weekend, 32 are weekdays.

if every single weekday looks like this:
[(6 hours sleep)+(45 min time from wake up to dress and get to school and before bell rings)+(7 hours school)] * 32 days
=440 hours

if every single weekend looks like this:
[(5.5 hours sleep)+(30 min commute each day)] * 14 days
=84 hours

There are 1104 hours in 46 days so there are only possibly 580 hours available left to work. I know that many people feel like there schedules looked like this but I doubt many actually were. I also didn't include any time to get homework done. Quite a few students chimed in that their grades dropped which is a little troubling. That is definitely something my team doesn't believe in. We tell them that school is always the most important.

I completely, agree with you, Our team says "School comes first" but doesn't always work out that way , I have to make a compromise between school and robotics or else the others will not pick up the slack on my end (which is a lot). My grades are not where I want them to be because of this, but they are good enough for me to be going to school next year ( maybe not the one i wanted, but still). I constantly hear that doing robotics will teach you more than you will ever learn in school (this cant always be used as a broad statement) and i think this is a very true statement but, i hope that doing robotics wont keep anyone from having the education they are hoping to get post-secondary.