How far do you Travel to Mentor?

[Christopher149]

It's a little over 2 miles to my team (857). For the rookie team no one else is available to mentor (5989), it's 62 miles (1hr 10 minutes) one-way. I've gone twice this build season.

*Edit: By "no one else", I mean no one from one of the 3 veteran teams nearby. 5989 meeting during school hours makes helping them interesting.

[Roger]

3.3 miles. Google, who is now stalking me on my phone, says it's 9 minutes home, always with a 1 minute delay because of "light traffic on Washington Street", no matter what time day or night. I can trim 2/10ths of a mile going instead via Polley Lane, but that has more turns and the car doesn't know that way as well.

Oddly, I used to take one of the student/mentors home which was a mile from the school, and further away from my house, but leaving his house it was only 2.8 miles to my house. Walpole has a temporal space anomaly.

[Jon Stratis]

22 miles each way, 5 times a week. so about 200 miles total per week right now!

[Lil' Lavery]

~20 minutes from home
~45 minutes from work in typical afternoon traffic

[Steven Smith]

Google has started recognizing the school as home instead of my house... so I travel 0 miles to mentor, but about 5 minutes home to sleep.

[Kevin Selavko]

About 45 minutes (traffic permitting) each way, every other day.

[lpickett]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

I think I have you beat, I live about 1/4 mile from our lab about 3 mins when I drive it.

I only go 3 blocks. This makes it possible for me to be there whenever they need me. Usually right after school so they can use the machines with an adult present.

[cadandcookies]

1-2 hours by bus both ways, 4-5 times a week. The bus and I are now very well acquainted and I use that time to do class readings or do a bit of programming work for my classes. Or occasionally sleep when I need it.

IMO losing out on weekend partying is worth it to help change a few lives.

[Anupam Goli]

I'm lucky that 1648's shop is literally 2 miles down the road from Georgia Tech. Before i had my car (parking passes are VERY expensive in downtown Atlanta!) down here, i used to walk the 2 miles. Now i can drive from my apartment or from school and it takes about 10 minutes.

[TCMJ1816]

I'm in about the same situation as Ginger Power, about 3.5 hours from Iowa State back to the Twin Cities. I don't make it back every weekend but probably skype about 15 hours a week with the team working through design and prototyping.

So to answer your question, not as crazy as you, but close.

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by cadandcookies

IMO losing out on weekend partying is worth it to help change a few lives.

QFT

[Basel A]

Only 3.2 miles, but the commute takes about 25 minutes taking a city bus. Not so bad, really.

[Knufire]

3 minutes to the shop by car. Before I moved after 2014, it was about half that.

I guess my travel time to our regional in 2014 would be zero as the venue parking lot is where I parked anyway?

[David Brinza]

Our build site is 15 miles out of my way for my work commute and 18 miles from my home. I drive roughly 100 miles a week for robotics during build season.

[MaGiC_PiKaChU]

2.5 miles from home,
2 miles from school
4 miles from work

7 times a week