Students, Time put into start of build - end of 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.