Meeting Length

[drewcampbell]

I was just wondering, how long do other teams usually meet - and on what days? Also, where do you usually meet? Do you have a special room or place at your school?? Or your own building?

ALSO - how many do you have on your team?

Our team, DART 1284, meets Mon - Friday from 3:00 to 6:00, except on Wed. and Fri. we meet from 3:00 to 5:00.

Thanks for the feedback

[Elgin Clock]

M-F 4-8pm

Last two weekends from like.. 9am(?) till about 9pm(?)

We have to pay to use our school on weekends.. so.. ya know.. that's why we don't use it that often.

But, other clubs and activities don't have to pay... so...

We go from 5-9 on weekdays and 9-5 on saturday. However, many adults cannot make it to the weekday meetings until 6-6:30 because of work.

We meet in a tech. room in school for this period. On weekdays, many students choose to stay at school until 5. The district requires us to have a certified adult (teacher) to watch over us when we machine things.

[Bcahn836]

School nights from 6:00 Pm until 8:00 (in the last few weeks it will be whenever we finish or the janitors kick us out)
Weekends and or holidays 9:00 am until whenever (usually around 3:00 pm or when ever we finish)

[henryBsick]

M-TH: 6-whenever (8:30-9:30*)
No Friday*
Sat: 9:00 till whenever(6:30*)
Sun: 10:00 till whenever (6:30*)
* Average times/ Days

-Henry

/edit:
Once the deadline approaches, like in the 5th week we stay MUCH later.

[Jay H 237]

Team 237 meets Monday thru Friday starting at 4pm until 8pm at the high school our team is based out of, Watertown High. The only time we meet at the school on a weekend is usually the last weekend before the robot ships to finish up any loose ends. We try not to meet on weekends because we're required to pay for custodial coverage on weekends, but if we do we usually do all day, 8 or 9 in the morning until 5 or so.
If we know the school will be closed because of weather or a holiday we meet at one of our sponsors shops. We only ask the mechanical and electrical people to show up and whatever stuff we need or is being worked on we take the night before from the school.
We don't have a dedicated room at the school. We use the woodshop, metalshop, graphic arts, home ec, electronics room, and the cafeteria. The rooms aren't all next to each other but they are all in the same wing of the building so it isn't too bad. The main problem is since these rooms are used during the regular school day we have to drag everything out at the beginning of the meetings and then pack up again near the end. We also clean up any rooms and machinery we use.

[NoodleKnight]

Every Thursday @ 7:00PM we have a general team meeting (usually lasts for one to two hours) - this meeting happens every week, no matter what season (unless it's cancelled due to some circumstance)
During build every day is pretty much a work day, weekdays: 3-6PM, weekends 10-3PM.

[drewcampbell]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

M-F 4-8pm

Last two weekends from like.. 9am(?) till about 9pm(?)

We have to pay to use our school on weekends.. so.. ya know.. that's why we don't use it that often.

But, other clubs and activities don't have to pay... so...

That is CRAP! You have to pay to use your school? If you don't mind me asking, how much?? and why???

We don't... thank the lord.

[Lisa Rodriguez]

RAGE has all team meetings on wednesdays from 630-830 (usually people are there till 9 or so) other than that committees have thier own scheduled meet times, like spirit meets once a week, programming 3 times week, and build every day (not right now, but soon) We meet usually at our facility in East Hartford (gradciously donated by a realtor in EH because no one wants to rent it and there's a billboard used for income on the property, for more info pm me) But the robot is built at Rockville High school, because we have a machine shop (half machine shop half closet? used to be the whole school's machine shop but it's not anymore) and most of the kids on build are from RHS and not EHHS (kids' choice, not determined by school)

We are in the school until the janitors leave (kick us out) around 1130, and on weekend, we stay as long as there are janitors there (wrestling meets, rec basketball, etc) which is usually from around 9 am to dinner time or sometime after (the janitors like us, we descibe what we're doing, some came to the local compeition last year)

We have an almost full sized playing field at our faciliy in EH, we love to share it, if you're in the area and want to come, pm me

[Marinesniper77]

We are only a second year team and meet only monday-thursday after school. The 'meetings' last from 3:15ish until 5ish with only a few people doing some menial tasks. I am the president and even i don't make it every night. We barely have access to any shop rooms so our robot is going very slowly. [/rambling]

Anyways it sounds like everyone is doing alright with time.

[Philip W.]

Team 188 seems to spend the most hours on their build season so far. On weekdays, we work from 3:00 PM to 11:00 PM, 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM on Saturdays and 1:00 PM to 9:30 PM on Sundays. That's a total of 57 hours a week. Not all members stay as late as 11 PM but only the most dedicated ones of course. Waves of 30 members may come in afterschool, but tend to leave at around 6-7 PM (after dinner...hah) leaving around 6 members that stay later, and even less that stay until the doors close.

Working at these hours is very tiring I very well know because I've been at every meeting for every second, but it's definitely well worth it. With no doubt it's fun, and also, the results from team 188 seem to be largely because the time we put into it (as well as other things) that compensate for our lack of resources (e.g. no CNC machine). We cannot appreciate enough how much time mentors spend dealing with us students.

[CyberWolf_22]

The Cyber Wolf Corps meets Mon-Wed-Fri from starting about 4 and ending from 7 to 9. On Tue and Thur we normally have shorter days because our mentor teach a college class those days so we normally only stay till about 6 or 7. We also meet most Saturdays and some Sundays from about 9 in the morning till about 6 at night. The reason we meet so long is that we really don't have a lot team members so we have to spend a lot more time on the robot.

[KTorak]

M-F: After school to 5pmish or later.
Sat: 12 to 5pmish or later.

When I did FLL, we spent many nights there to 11 pm and developed a very good relationship with the janitorial staff.

All our meetings get posted on our website at: http://www.bedfordexpress.com/calendar.php

[Mohsin]

Team 772 usually meets after school till 6 or sometimes 8. Though some time wwe stay longer on Fridays. we really dont meet on the weekends. The Teacher cant make it , so anyway, we end up staying later, and later, as the 6 weeks of building goes on . yep. but it really depends on if you can and when u can

Mohsin
Team 772
My Name is not MOLSON!!!!

[Sscamatt]

We meet:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - 6pm-9pm (maybe a little later)
Thursday - right after school until like 5-6ish
Friday-5pm-9pm
Saturday-9am-12pm

Times will increase once we start building the actual bot, we get kicked out by janitors and would have to pay for them to stay later so it kinda sucks.