Build Season Schedule Questions?

[ABreyen]

Originally Posted by MechEng83

Heat map of teams' hours per day: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing

Better than I could have done xD

Thanks!

[Tsukunea]

6065 goes everyday during the week 3-6pm, and Saturdays 10-4

[MechEng83]

As of the previous post, some compiled stats from the heat map:

Average Build Season weekly hours - 26.3
Most likely times to find an FRC team in thier shop: Saturday 10am-3pm
followed by Thursday 6-8pm, then Tuesday 6-8pm.

[HolyDollar]

I'm kind of glad someone said something about this sort of issue, because our team has a similar struggle. We represent a Catholic School and Parish, and we meet in the Parish Center, so we're basically allowed to stay there until the building closes, and that's about it. Because of this, our typical meeting schedule during build season looks a little something like this:

Mondays-Wednesdays: 5:30-7:30pm (We have to wait for our mentors to get off work and then, again, we stay until the building closes)
Thursdays (for Programmers only, Knights of Columbus also meets that night, so we have to keep the noise down): 5:30-7:30pm
Saturdays: 10am-2pm (Sometimes later if we decide to move the whole shop to our lead mentor's garage and work )

I'm not sure how helpful this is, but I'm sure if your school is super strict on when they want you in the building, then there may be other teams in the area that are willing to let you use their space (or even a practice field if they have one!). There were a few teams that did this for us last season (Thanks 2137, 3539, 2612, 3098, and Bob Nichols of Kettering University!) and it really made a huge difference in how much we were able to get done (and how successful we were in competition).

[mman1506]

I've always liked skipping Mondays and Fridays (unless Monday is a holiday) and doing the rest. Seems to help with burnout as the breaks are evenly space time wise.

[catmanjake]

Glad to hear most teams take Sunday's off for rest. the only sunday we did last year was on Kickoff weekend and it was only in afternoon for a few hours.