Meeting Length

[HPA_Robotics_13]

Originally Posted by 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

HPA Robotics, at this point in the build season, meets Monday-Friday: 6:30-9:00 PM. Weekends are when we get most of our work done. Today, Saturday, our shop was open from 9 AM until 11 PM, and we pretty much had mentors around the whole time. We broke for lunch and went to town for chinese food. Tomorrow, Sunday, we're going to open shop at 10 AM and we'll probably call it a day sometime in early evening. The goal for tomorrow's meeting is to finish constructing our manipulator prototype, and successfully cap our center goal with a tetra manually from the joysticks.

This is HPA Robotics 4th year. The first year (I was a freshman) the weekend before the ship date on Tuesday the 4 or 5 other hardcore team members and I were at school working on our FIRST Robotics project from sometime Saturday morning until Monday morning. We DIDN'T go home. I slept through my first 2 classes on Monday.

We meet in a small building, about 20 x 40 feet, that is named the Engineering Center. It's nestled in behind our school's monolithic indoor tennis center and gym/pool complex. It was constructed in 1991, the year before our high school sent a team to the Tour de Sol in Europe. The same mentor that went to Europe with that group is our current lead mentor.

Our team has a total of less than 20 students. This year at least half our team is made up of freshman or new sophomores. They are all very enthusiastic, and by their junior year HPA Robotics will be very strong. But right now, myself and the 4 other veterans have a huge job to do: building this year's robot while showing the rookies how it's done.