Hours worked

[EOC]

Team 1208 usually logs 6500 hours per season. That includes August to April.

[SteveGarward]

I didn't want to, but I added it up.

Between regular build meetings, and then the time outside that planning, finding and ordering parts, helping on various parts/boards etc in the early mornings and evenings after meetings, I've spent about 400 hours.

Since kickoff. Not including my 1.5hrs each day driving there and home.

[Ideal_Nerd]

I have spent about 200 hours in our workshop during build season and about another 50 CADing and doing research. That is not including my 30 min of commuting each day and about 3 hours a week running to the store and getting food for the team.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Total, counting drive... prolly under 60 this season. The whole moving in the middle of build season really helped. Now let's ignore that I'm volunteering at 4 events this season and attending a 5th with the team.

[Henksta]

We also clock in and out. Each kid ranges from 75 to 120 hours for the whole build season. Our team has somewhere around 25 students on our team so our total is > 1875 and the total is < 3000.

[mabster314]

This year, the students of team 2175 clocked a total of 4229:48:12 (hhhh:mm:ss) person-hours, or 176 days 5 hours 48 minutes 12 seconds, not including times where they forgot to clock in or out. Many of the people in the shop most often stopped clocking after they hit the lettering requirement of 120 hours, and mentors didn't clock, so the actual amount is actually significantly higher

[Jacob Bendicksen]

Team 1540 collectively spent 3100 hours in the lab in the past six weeks, not including mentors or people forgetting to log in/out. This works out to just under 100 hours/person.

[Sam_Mills]

Originally Posted by MrJohnston

Yeah.... And we shrunk this year....
We've had as many as 140 kids on our time over the last couple years...

We'd like to split into two (or four??) different teams, but can only get one work space.

If you're serious about potentially budding off into multiple teams, contact David Bodmer, the head mentor for 11. Since starting a "beta team" for freshmen, more kids have had more to do, and a few other teams have followed or modified the model for themselves.

[skottmorris]

I might have missed it in all the replies, but what types of solutions are teams using to record time?

We know from experience that spreadsheets and paper recording has not been effective unless we task someone with it every meeting. This usually deteriorates over time because the kids are not interested in picking up this responsibility.

• Do you use a paper or electronic time clock?
• Do you use a spreadsheet or Google document?
• Do you use a web service?
• Do you use a mobile app?
• Do you use the school's attendance system?
• Do you use something else?

[Vladi03]

I did the math for my hours for these past 7 weeks and got 362.4 hours total just for me.

[EOC]

Originally Posted by skottmorris

I might have missed it in all the replies, but what types of solutions are teams using to record time?

We know from experience that spreadsheets and paper recording has not been effective unless we task someone with it every meeting. This usually deteriorates over time because the kids are not interested in picking up this responsibility.

• Do you use a paper or electronic time clock?
• Do you use a spreadsheet or Google document?
• Do you use a web service?
• Do you use a mobile app?
• Do you use the school's attendance system?
• Do you use something else?

We just use a paper sign in/out sheet. The students quite good with this.

[stingray27]

Originally Posted by skottmorris

I might have missed it in all the replies, but what types of solutions are teams using to record time?

We know from experience that spreadsheets and paper recording has not been effective unless we task someone with it every meeting. This usually deteriorates over time because the kids are not interested in picking up this responsibility.

• Do you use a paper or electronic time clock?
• Do you use a spreadsheet or Google document?
• Do you use a web service?
• Do you use a mobile app?
• Do you use the school's attendance system?
• Do you use something else?

We use a computer that has an RFID reader attached to an arduino connected to it. When students enter or leave (the computer is near the door), each student presents a card to the reader and it clocks them in or out. Alternatively, the computer screen has a local website that is always up that they can click on their picture to clock them in or out as well if they forgot their card

[2015HuntMJ]

Our team uses an online sign in/sign out system. Personally I have about 120 hours this season. I don't know how many total hours our team has though. Probably a lot...

[sanddrag]

Between January 3rd, 2015 and February 22nd, 2015, Team 696 which consists of 36 students and six regular mentors has spent over 8,400 people-hours. Our average student attendance over this 7-week period is 202 hours per student with a high of 346 hours and a low of 92 hours, and a median attendance of 195 hours. These are all hours outside of classes during the school day.

[Monochron]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Our average student attendance over this 7-week period is 202 hours per student with a high of 346 hours and a low of 92 hours, and a median attendance of 195 hours. These are all hours outside of classes during the school day.

I'm always amazed that students can put in those kind of hours and not have it seriously impact their school work. Any helpful tips I can give to parents who won't allow that kind of commitment?