Time Spent per Week on Robotics

[Madison]

I work an hour on my own for every hour the whole team meets, I'd wager. The team meets about 16 hours per week.

[DCA Fan]

Can't afford to do too much, right now I'm scheduled to help 9 hours a week, but I usually end up doing 11.

[artdutra04]

During the main build season, I spend about 33 hours/week doing robotics-related things. But during the crunch week, I usually spent 14 hours/day (or in other terms, over 70 hours during the week before ship!) at robotics getting everything finished in time to ship.

(I have winter vacation during the last week of the build season every year, so I can spend all day from 9 AM to 11 PM at robotics. )

[arabsponsor]

Our students spend about 25-30 hours a week on the robot. Everything at night. As ship deadline gets closer the hours always get longer. The sponsors on the other hand work all the hours the students do plus hours during the day when we should be teaching. There are always calls to make, agendas to work out, and orders to place or track down.

[dubious elise]

Easily 2 hours per night on weeknights (this week has been finals week, so I can't do too much more than that...until Monday!) and 3+ hours on Saturday. If we need it, we'll do Sunday afternoons as well, but most students are either making up homework on Sundays or have church/family activities so its kinda tricky to meet.

I say 26-30 hours per week because of the hours I put in at home, at school, and, just once in a while, on ChiefDelphi

[Katie Reynolds]

47.25 hours since kickoff (we have to keep track of our time for the class college mentors take) and it looks like it'll be 3 more hours tonight and at least 9 tomorrow.

[Josh Murphy]

i get to school at 6:30 in the morning my first 3 hours of the day is our robotics leader and i work on it then until about 10:00 then i go to my 4th hour finish my work come back down here and work until about 12:15 that's through my lunch hour then i go to 5th hour don't come here then go to 6th hour at 1:15 get my work done at 1:30 come back down here and don't leave until about 6 to 8 o clock at night that is just mon-fri this week we did not have school on monday and we came at 8:30 and left at 6:30 today we do not have school but we got here at 9:00 and are aiming to leave at 2 tomorrow which is saturday we will get here at 7:30 and leave at 3:30 so during First season i spend alot of hours at school. I go home and they all say you look tired. more tired than u normally look and i tell them u go to school from 6:30 am to 6:30 pm on most nights. so yeah but i really enjoy it so as lomg as i am happy i will be fine it is only for 6 weeks

[devicenull]

Lets see..
7-10 weekdays (until we get closer to ship, then it becomes 7-11)
10-whenever (usually after 7-8) weekends.

[Excelsior]

I typically put in about 25, I'd have more hours in, but having a job stinks.

[Tomasz Bania]

Originally Posted by devicenull

Lets see..
7-10 weekdays (until we get closer to ship, then it becomes 7-11)
10-whenever (usually after 7-8) weekends.

I WISH! Our Team meets monday-Thursday 3-6 and FRIDAY 3-5. That was our preset schedule, and i don't know how, but each sub-team has 1 week more worth of projects done then they planned, and it's going pretty good.

[TheAnsweris42]

Eh, considering the schoolwork most of us have to do... its a weird situation. We meet for 3 hours/day after school mon-thurs, and for 6-8 hours on saturday. Myself, I spend a lot of time reading the rules and these forums at home too, so, myself, at least 24 I think. The issue, I think, is that we have some people on the team who ONLY come on the saturday meetings, and the mentors give their votes equal weight. Its really not fair to those of us that are there consistantly, every day, and now we are making a robot design that I, personally, am extremely skeptical about. Especially as we're a rookie team... it worries me...

[Rick TYler]

I see people who don't build robots. Walking around like FIRST people. They don't see robot parts everywhere. They only see what they want to see. They don't know their lives are dull.

During build season I'd say I spend about 167 hours per week working on or thinking about robots. The other hour is spent pitying the masses.

[Dan Petrovic]

Originally Posted by Alekat

Much less this week however. Our school has had finals this week, ahh! In fact I should probably be studying for my gov final right now...

Us too, but that didn't stop me

[BRosser314]

Since I am a Co-op student and I work at delphi, my job is to work on design and making parts. for my robotics team. I average between 15-20 hours a week at work. I work from 2:30- whenever. And our meetings are Tuesday,Wednesday, Friday 6-9? and Saturday9-3? u really think we go till 3 try like 6 or 7. So with work and robotics and time I spend od CD and FIRST it rounds off to about 34-39hours a week. And that is only with three days u should see how many hours i put in last year without work. I was averaging about 40 hours a week with just meetings.

[KTorak]

I have to say we average about 4-5 hours per evening, then around 5-6 on saturday. As the ship date approaches, we've been known to spend all day working on the robot as opposed to going to class...unless we have a test inwhich we'll go take the test then go back to working on the robot