Mythical Six Week Build Season

[Mark Sheridan]

Originally Posted by EricH

A proposal: All robots MUST bag at the 6 week mark. Teams are expected to enforce a tools-down policy--this includes practice robots and software development.

Just to nitpick this. some students on my team delay their participation in week 6 so they are rested and ready to dive in with the practice bot after bag day. Its also a good time for peer review of code, to clean up while week 6 is still fresh in your mind.

I personally don't like the concept of bag day but I do think it provides closure for my team and permits them get needed rest. There are those like me, who are too excited and immediately want to play with the practice bot.

However we did get very burned out this year, we asked ourselves almost everyday if we would be more upset if we did not give our best. We gave up on the can war to keep our sanity.