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View Poll Results: do you regulary attend classes during the FIRST season?
yes, I attend all my classes AND work on FIRST 160 80.40%
partially, I attent most of my classes (or I am not allowed to miss any) 25 12.56%
partially, I rarely attend my classes (or atleast im allowed to miss them) 7 3.52%
no, If I attend it's because something special is happening, otherwise im in the lab all the time 7 3.52%
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Re: do you guys attend classes regularly during the time between kickoff and shipment

I wish! Our school won't even let us fund raise during school hours, let alone miss classes. They're even throwing a big stink about a competition we're heading to in a little over a week. They won't let us bring along our Juniors because HSPA's are the FOLLOWING week. Jerks.
We work on it when we can, but only have 2 mentors, one is a teacher, and one is a parent. So we have to work around their hours. This is my first season and I feel as though I've sold my soul to a Devil Driver nonetheless. It's over soon, right?
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Re: do you guys attend classes regularly during the time between kickoff and shipment

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It's over soon, right?
Heh heh. Yes, for a little while. Then there's the regional (fun!), be sure to meet other teams and make friends for next year.

Round about April you'll be ready for another season, and then realize it's not going to start until January....

I cannot believe some of you. Maybe I'm getting old, but it hurts to go more than 6 hours a day - start at 3:30 when the kids get out of school (my boss is very understanding), goes to at least 8 pm, sometimes (like now, crunch time) 10 pm. Kids do the same, AND go to all classes.

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Re: do you guys attend classes regularly during the time between kickoff and shipment

We all go to classes regularly and then meet afterschool and on weekends. The school is really cool about competitions (our pricipal and assistant principal are comming to the regional!) and the teachers love having FIRST students in class (We provide the answer to "when are we ever going to use this stuff?"). our teachers are very flexible about homework and tests, but we usually don't have any problems except on competition days.
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Re: do you guys attend classes regularly during the time between kickoff and shipment

Personally, I can't afford to miss any school, but when it comes down to the last week, the true diehards of our team will "skip" a few days of school and spend the day building
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Re: do you guys attend classes regularly during the time between kickoff and shipment

Wow, I am in envy of those people whose schools cut them any slack in any way. While most of our teachers and staff support the team, academics are always a priority. We always have a semester change in the middle of the season, and I had an easy first semester, so I had lots of time for robotics, then second semester rolled around, and Calculus came into my life. Now I have much less time available, but spend the same time at robotics. Not the best idea I have ever had. The upshot? I attend all my classes and robotics and lose sleep.
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Re: do you guys attend classes regularly during the time between kickoff and shipment

why don't you guys talk with your principal about this?
just tell them that you will do everything during the month after shipment,
this will mean that instead of 1.5 months of extreme stress, you'll have 2.5months of moderate stress, that will clear up more time for the robot, and I'm sure that with more time spent the quality of FIRST will go up, if the quality of this competition (which is already very high) goes up, so will it's popularity AND growth, after all, at the end of the day the goals of FIRST and of your schools are the same, if kids get a brake if they join FIRST, more of them will take interest in engineering and science, it works over here, I know that one of the MAIN reasons I joined robotics was because students who take this class appreciated and get a "break" when one is needed,
one of the school-system main goals is to "create" (if you will), productive-citizens, I don't see a program more suitable to enhance that goal then FIRST.

just my 2 cents =)
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Re: do you guys attend classes regularly during the time between kickoff and shipment?

Nimmy, while thats an amazing idea and something that probably works really well for you guys theres just too much variation in school board and school specific policies when it comes to FIRST. Our teacher-mentor has to fill out at least a dozen pages of paperwork for each regional we go on and we in turn have to fill out just as many to attend them. In my last three years of high school, I was lucky enough to have teachers understand the amount of effort that I put into school and when it came down to the end, especially for university marks and scholarship potential, they were generous enough to allow me a 0.5-1% bump up, unofficially speaking of course. But throughout the entire year, the only classes I missed were for competitions. I never skipped a single class for robotics. Even if you are dead tired, at least show up and explain and see if you can absorb any sort of information. If you are cordial and polite with your teachers, preach the values of FIRST to them, no self-respecting teacher is going to stop you from putting your best efforts into it. Just remember that no matter what, academics should come FIRST!

You work hard, you play hard when it comes to the regional competitions. Spend the time during build season either at robotics or working. It is very very hard not to do things with your friends during this time, but the payoff is well worth it at the end.

As for attending robotics while in university, the great Shawn Lim, my boss and now a fellow alumni mentor at 188 explained to me that it was going to be quite difficult. It was probably more compounded for him since he attended Kettering =P. I am lucky enough be in international business, with only about 15 hours of class time a week at York University, which is only about 30-40 minutes away from 188's home base. I commute back and forth on free nights, usually Mondays, Thursdays to Sundays. Almost makes me feel like I am a high school student again.

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Re: do you guys attend classes regularly during the time between kickoff and shipment?

just my 2 cents:
our teachers dont really care what we are doing....whether we are on the floor sleeping or not, if we are sleeping or not paying attention, we get detention......yea kinda sucks but oh well
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