Meeting Length

[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.