Hours spent during build season

[Mike Marandola]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Team 696 2016 Build Season Stats

Total People-Hours: 6957
Total Student-Hours (30-student team): 5585
Average Hours Per Student Per Week (outside of school hours): 34.1
Average Total Hours Per Student: 186
Highest Single Student Hours: 323
Highest Single Mentor Hours: 382
Total Mentor-Hours (9 mentors): 1371
Average Total Hours Per Mentor: 152

All stats are from Kickoff through today.

How do you guys log this?

[frcguy]

Every weekday from 4:30-9pm and Saturdays and some sundays from 10am-4pm.

[Anthony Galea]

I myself as the student with the most time logged with about 166 hours on the robot during build season, and the team of 20 students in total i think logged around 2000 as a guesstimate, meeting Mon-Wed-Fri-Sat with a bulk of our hours coming on weekends.

[indieFan]

Originally Posted by Drew_trak

Hello,
This year was a big transition year for team 599 as our main coach moved up North. Due to this shift, our build season schedule was different and moved around so we struggled as a team to finish on time. I was wondering if any team has an approximation of how many hours or any other reference as to how much time they put in this build season. We would love to see how much time other teams are putting in. Thank you - see you at the competitions!

Sorry to hear about you losing Mr. Van. Definitely a big loss for the team.

I'm curious why the team schedule was so different and moved around rather than trying to keep it the same.

Having mentored 599 and 1070 for 10 years, I worked with my new team to follow 599's original (from year 2 and on) work schedule to prevent burn out for myself, the teacher, the other mentor, and the students.

We worked 3 days a week for 2 hours and on Saturday from 10 - 4. The only days we went late were Mon and Tues of Bag and Tag. Those were 5 - 10pm and 3 - 11:30pm, I believe. There were a few days where the students had the day off from school and went in for about 6 hours that the mentors were unable to show up. Otherwise, the mentors were there almost the entire time.

Adjustments to the time of day were also made during Finals Week to allow students to have time to study after robotics.

[Jon Stratis]

For us, 15 hours of meetings per week. That doesn't include other time for the design team or captain, or anything done outside of the regular meetings.

Myself, I hit 225 hours on stop build day. By I do other regional stuff as well.

[elil]

My team met on the following schedule during the build season:

Monday 4-8
Friday 4-9
Saturday 9-6
Sunday 9-6
MLK: 9-9
School's professional day: 12-9

Additionally, we added a weekend working to 9, and I worked during lunch, my free block, and after school every day during the last two weeks.
We missed one weekend and presidents day due to snow, and did not start at 9 one weekends until week three (we started at 10). So 255 hours of shop time for me, plus time CADing (Maybe another 20 hours?).

[robotmom2471]

We had open shop every day starting with kick off, we have about 40 kids on the team with several students putting in over 300 hours. We have a finger print scanner a programming alumni devised for us which students use to log in and out and which posts the hours log on a private web site - totaling the hours we have over 5,000 not including mentor hours admittedly it gets pretty competitive and we are working on ways to bring better balance next year.

[SoulianPride]

Week 1:
-Sunday: 12-4
-Monday thru Friday: 7-9
-Saturday 10-4

Week 2, 3, 4, 5
-Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 7-9
-Saturday: 10-4

Week 6:
-Sunday: 12-5
-Monday thru Friday: 7-9
-Saturday 10-5
-Monday: 7-10
-Tuesday: 7-10

This does not include time frames spent with students out at a local shop working to fabricate parts ^^

[Beaker]

We met around 30 hours a week during build season.

If I sum up the hours for each student team member during build season,the total comes out to a bit more than 6400 hours.

As for me, I have put in over 250 hours this build season, not counting the unofficial hours I spent at home and at school working on the code for the robot. Many of the other members of the team, such as project leads and leadership have similar amounts of time spent at build and uncounted time.

[Greg Woelki]

Well over 400 hours for me. It got to the point that whenever a core member left at 10 or 11 we joked that they were taking a "half day."

[budzilla]

Boy am I glad to see some of these numbers. A school holiday was a day we could work all day like Saturday and Sunday. Based on local team's info, I was wondering what we were doing wrong. We are working harder, not smarter. However, this thread shows that there are teams as bad or worse than us. Yay!

Our kids totaled 5,248. 1161.3 for the top 4 dedicated/foolish souls. Mentor hours are unknown because we don't want to know. Way too scary!!

Good luck to all! Tally ho!!

[Cothron Theiss]

So this year our team had a few issues with scheduling in the beginning of the season; the students and mentors were really limited on when we could get access to our shop. Starting out it was 6-8 on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays and then 10-3, which totals to 11 hours a week. Then we sat some people down and got the shop opened up to much longer hours, to about 26 hours of scheduled shop time per week. As for my own total, I logged 173 shop hours and 210 personal hours during build season, totaling 383 hours. I did all of the CAD modeling for my team this year, and I coordinated much of the parts orders, so I ended up having more late nights with my laptop than actual hours with the robot. The team captain and lead programmer on our team put in about 300 hours in a similar fashion, but past that everyone's individual totals were much lower for our team. We're both seniors, so our GPA's aren't near as sensitive this semester.

[mdiradoorian]

Originally Posted by Mike Marandola

How do you guys log this?

If it has not changed since I left, they use a sign in/sign out system where they scan their student/mentor ID bar codes into a computer that logs the amount of time they each spent an excel spreadsheet.

[twadem]

During the build season, Team 1706 meets almost every day of the week. On Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, we meet from 3 to 8. Wednesdays and Fridays we are there from 3 to 6. Saturdays are our busy days, meeting from 8am to 5pm. All of these meetings add up to a minimum of about 30 hours a week. But, these are only the scheduled meetings, the most dedicated members are there longer and more than that. I, as well as some others, are often found on Wednesdays and Fridays meeting there until 8 rather than 6. Also, many of us meet on Sundays and, including a few dedicated members, we have had a meeting every day for the past 36 days. Those are the truly dedicated members, and those members shine when it comes to the last week of build season. Last week, some members of my team, myself included, met every day to build our robot, totaling to about 55 hours over the course of that week with nearly 24 of those hours being on the last 3 days. We have a truly dedicated team and, though it takes a lot of time and effort, that effort is what makes it all worth it after we achieve our goal.

[indieFan]

Originally Posted by budzilla

Our kids totaled 5,248. 1161.3 for the top 4 dedicated/foolish soles. Mentor hours are unknown because we don't want to know. Way too scary!!
!

You may want to know the mentor hours if any work for a company like Boeing which will donate money based on those hours.