Mythical Six Week Build Season

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by techhelpbb

That's fine. You built the robot and it placed highly in competition.
My point is that building the robot is not enough.
The fact you can take longer to build the robot is not always about adding features.

Team 11 & 193 (both in Mount Olive High School) both student led teams build generally at least 3 robots sometimes 4 in 6 weeks. Sometimes we add on a few prototypes as we go. One major reason we split the team was because with so many people on just Team 11 wouldn't get the full experience they could have. Now we facilitate that at the cost of a whole extra team.

So it's not just about building the robot. If it was I wouldn't need FIRST.

I'm glad you build a lot of robots every year. Even if the season was twice as long as it is now, my team (and many, many others, probably well over 1/2 of FIRST) wouldn't have the funds to do so. I still don't see, however, how this plays into the length of the build season or whether we should have a stop build day. Even with a stop build day, what's stopping you from going year-round and building 20 robots each year? If getting MORE the the required number of robots done in 6 weeks is possible, why is that 6 week limitation a problem?