[FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

I guess at the end of the day I find myself still incredibly puzzled by your plea to keep stop build day in place. You discuss how the potential removal of it could negatively affect your team. However, none of the issues you state are necessarily involuntarily out of your control as a mentor.

The current rules package for FRC robot fabrication causes my team, and many others, to have to adjust way out of our comfort zone to to meet everything from routine schedules up to overarching goals. Have to shut down fabrication for almost 1 out of 6 weeks during build season for midterm exams? "Sorry, that's out of your control as a team, but you have to work around it." We do. Live in a place where they shut down schools and virtually padlock the doors to keep you out over the threat of snow? "You'll come up with something! It's all part of THE PROCESS™." However, these problems are out of our control and as team leadership, we have made it a priority to not let problems out of our control define how we achieve success as an organization.

When it comes to potential removal of stop build day, your core fear seems to be that you and the rest of your team leadership will fail to adjust for, finalize, and maintain objectives and expectations that could affect the sustainability of your program. Does the mentorship of the team have no say in how often meetings are held? Do students hold your family members hostage with guns pointed to their heads until the student leadership feels like they have had sufficient meeting time?

No one on this board is going to make the decision to keep or end stop build day but each of us has the opportunity to set the guidelines for our teams concerning how we handle either approach.

Furthermore, he's on a team that competes in a district and thus enjoyed substantial unbagging time this season.