Hours spent during build season

[Landonh12]

We work Monday, Tuesday, and Thursdays from 4:30 to 8:30.

Wednesdays are MIT InvenTeam days, but during the season we worked on FRC these days as well. 4-6pm usually.

Saturdays are 12-5pm.

Towards the last week of the season, we stayed until 10pm most days and worked on Sunday almost all day.

We also have Engineering class time that the students use for FRC/FTC as well.

I'd say each student logged around 200 hours.

[Chris Endres]

My freshman year (2013), when we still had our field and build space at Motorola, I logged ~550 hours. Monday through Thursday, we met from 5:30-10:00+ every night, plus CAD. Saturday and Sunday we went from 9:00 to 10:00+.

Sophomore year (2014), we lost our field, but still had a build space at Motorola (smaller than before, but still something). I logged ~500 hours, roughly the same time for each meeting, but I think we ended at 8:30 on Tuesday and Thursday.

Junior and Senior year (2015/2016) I logged roughly 350 hours each year. Monday through Friday, 5:30-8:30, clean-up everyday (put EVERYTHING away into a small closet), with all of our major tools and materials in a small orange shipping crate outside our build space (a shared school wood shop), it was more like 6:00 to 8:00. CAD was usually an added 4-7 hours each day during the first two to three weeks. Saturday and Sunday went from 10:00 to 6:00 (10:30-5:30).

So over my time on the team, we have become EXTREMELY time efficient by losing over 150 from years previous. This has helped in rapid building, as well as working in the pit. It kind of sucks losing all of the space and time to build and practice, but great teamwork and persistence can really make a difference.

[TechnoD11]

Originally Posted by 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.

Pretty much the same situation for me. Put in around 400 hours this season, working pretty much as soon as I got home till 9-11PM at night on weekdays. Also spent more class time than I probably should have working on the CAD. Weekends were 24+ hours each.

It was worth it though. At least I hope...

[staplemonx]

6 days a week
6 hours a meeting
6 weeks
33 students
2 mentors

7,560 total hours possible.

We lost 25% of our access time due to snow so 5,670 hours spent this build season.