What was your schedule like for build season?

[MrForbes]

M-F 4-9
Sat 9-3

[weaversam8]

Our team is community, so we are less flexible relating to school times, but more flexible on weekends.

We meet three days a week, this year Tues-Thur from 6-8 PM. Saturday 10AM-5PM. Sunday, leaders at 1PM, rest of the team 2PM-6PM.

[brianbond]

Team 5102 has the whole team meet:
Monday - Friday: 5-9
Saturday : 10-6

[Anthony Galea]

First five weeks
Monday: 4:30-6:30
Wednesday: 4:30-7:30
Friday: 3:30-9:00
Saturday: 10AM-6PM

Week 6

Monday: 4:30-6:30
Tuesday-Wednesday: 4:30-9:00
Thursday: 3:30-9:00
Friday-Saturday: 10AM-9PM
Sunday: 12PM-5PM
Day Before Bag Day: 10AM-9PM
Bag Day: 10AM-8PM

[mman1506]

lately we've been doing
Weekdays 6:30~7 AM - 8:30 2:40 PM - 5~10 PM
Saturdays 9 am - 7 pm at our sponsor's shop
Sundays 10 am -5 pm

[GeeTwo]

Summer: One day per week (I believe it was Thursday) working projects for about three hours, and about five hours on six Saturdays with a "Robot Camp" training and in-house scrimmage.

Aug-Dec: Mon and Thu, 5:00-7:00. Mostly, we worked on the air cannon for the football games and did "tryouts" because the air cannon brought us enough recruits that we could afford to be choosy. After tryouts, we worked on a prototype 6-wheel drive platform which was never completed.

Build Season (most of the weeks):
Mon, Tue, Thu 5:00 - 7:30. (School ends about 4, and there was a study hall in the lab for an hour, also allowing mentors time to arrive.)
Sat 9-3:30, but often extending a few hours later; few went past 7pm.

MLK day and Lundi Gras/Washington's birthday/President's day were school and federal holidays. We did not have a full team meeting, but the programmers and a few control team members followed a Saturday schedule.

We did our marathon bag-and-tag session a few days early, 9am - 11pm on Saturday, and took Tuesday (Mardi Gras locally, or Stop Build Day to the rest of FRC) off as a team, which was how I was able to post so much to CD that day. (I had at least as much fun as if I'd gone to Rex on St. Charles Avenue, and stayed a whole lot warmer!)

If you're paying attention, you noticed the second programming day after our bag and tag. We built two (nearly) identical robots. They were close enough that we swapped which one we we bagged and which was for practice about 2pm on Saturday; we bagged Peabody and are practicing and programming on Atlas. We'll pick up with the build season schedule again on Monday and continue until Bayou Regional, at least for programmers and drivers. I suspect it will be nearly everybody, as we are rebuilding the pit and we still have checklists, scouting forms, spirit, and a bunch of other things to wrap up before we go to competition.

[mdituri]

M,T,W,Th 7 pm - 10 pm

Friday we all take off except week 6

Saturday 10 am - 7 pm we have brunch from 9 am to 10 am, and late lunch at 2:30 and then the adults have dinner at 8 pm at the Italian restaurant with a nice bottle of wine

Sunday 10 am - 5 pm brunch is from 9 am - 10 am, lunch at 2:30

The last four days of build we were there every night until at least 2 am and then we would split shift the kids and adults, starting at 9 am until planned midnight each night. We bagged at 11:59 pm. Somehow, I still didn't get home until 2 am that night anyway.

In terms of food. We have a fridge, griddle, grill, microwave, coffee pot, rice cooker, veggie steamer, and toaster. There is always breakfast on Sat/Sun (and during president's weekend), which gets my kids here a bit earlier. We always have a fully stocked pantry of stuff sponsored by my retirement fund (and kids/parents, of course). Lunch is provided by kids for the entire team. We always eat together on the weekends at one long table. Our union break is a half hour.

[MysterE]

Weeks 1,2,3 - Mon -Thurs: 4 till 7, Fri: 5 till 8, Sat: 11 Am till7pm

Week 4, 5 Mon - Thurs: 4 till 8, Friday: 5 till 9, Sat: 11am till 9pm

Week 6 - Mon-Thurs 5 till 9, Friday 5 till 1am

Weekend Through Tuesday - 11am till 1:30am officially. 2:30 on Sat.

[bkahl]

Weekdays: 6:30-11ish
Sat: 2-Midnight
Sun: 2-10

The last week of build season was a killer though, we 3:30-12 on some days.

A few of us went about 36 hours straight from Friday to Sunday. (Friday 3:30pm - Sunday 2 am).... we really wanted a working robot for our Week Zero event.


I guess that's just one of the nice things about not building in the school, we're not as limited on hours.

[EricAnderson191]

The X-Cats meet on Wednesdays after school before moving to our shop space. Meeting at the shop was on Wednesday from 5:30 to 8:00, Saturday from 9:00 to 5:00.

Students need to complete a minimum number of hours to qualify for excused absences to go to the regional and championship.

Eric

[Whippet]

Mon-Thu: 4:30 - 6:00 (School policy prohibits extracurriculars on Fridays)
Sat: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM (Also school restrictions on weekend meetings)

[PayneTrain]

M/W 5-8
F 5-10
Sa 12-everyone leaves
Su 12-5

We used to meet 3-7 M/Tu/W but that was pretty stupid so I nixed that. We also have a lot of night owl mentors so meeting before noon on Saturday is pretty much impossible. We do two meals a week, except during bag weekend where (this year excluded) we probably meet around 40 hours and need 4-5 meals.

In the fall we meet 5-7 M/W with occasional weekend meetings and during competition season we meet W 5-8 and F 5-10 with Saturdays if we need them.
Over the summer we meet when we want to.

[JDGallagher]

Tuesday, Thursday 4:00-7:30
Friday 4:00-10:30ish
Saturday 9:00-5:00

[Knufire]

M-F: 4:30-7:30
Sat: 12-5

Extended hours for the last half of build:
M-F: 4:30-8:30
Sat: 11-6.

Those were scheudled ending times. Meetings actually ended whenever people felt like going home.

Sunday of kickoff and Sunday before bag were also added.

[sanddrag]

We were scheduled for the following:

Mondays 3-6PM
Thursdays 3-6PM
Fridays 3-9PM
Saturdays 9AM-6PM
Sundays 1PM-6PM

But additional days and hours were added, probably coming close to doubling the scheduled amount of time.

In reality, since kickoff we've met every day except for about three. We had one 3:30 AM closing time, and probably 5 nights where we closed past 1:00 AM. No all nighters this year. Our top students have put in over 300 hours since kickoff. The average is close to 160 hours. We have 56 more hours scheduled between now and our first regional. We took yesterday off, and then were back at it tonight and stayed until 9:30pm.