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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

apparently we're different, because we only work until like 8 at night, and so we can't miss class, because we don't have any at night
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Re: do you guys attend classes regularly during the time between kickoff and shipment

oh I don't have any class at night, but since we are at school until 6-7AM the school lets us sleep during school times, the bummer is that in the end of the project I'm gonna have a tough problem shifting the hours back so I go to sleep at the evening time and wakeup at 7AM and not vice-versa
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Re: do you guys attend classes regularly during the time between kickoff and shipment

We work from around 3PM to 6PM everyday after school, 10AM to 5PM(usually) on Saturdays, and don't meet at all on Sundays so there's no excuse for any of us to miss any classes. D:
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Re: do you guys attend classes regularly during the time between kickoff and shipment

We work:
Wednesday 3-8 after school
Friday 3-9 after school
Saturday 10-5
Sunday 1-6
I wouldn't miss school for FIRST, anyway, unless it was extremely important
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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

i work till 11 and stuff on the robot, drive 30 min back, and then finally start 3 AP classes + other classes worth of hw.
i have a full schedule i cant miss. missing them for the competitions is gonna be hard enough. im actually wondering if i really wanna take those tests.
oh and no excuses on the missing hw or lack of attention.... thank god we're almost there.,
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Re: do you guys attend classes regularly during the time between kickoff and shipment

Block Classes and no free bits. It sucks. School doesnt understand the size of first so we can't even turn in homework late. They treat it as if it was just a small after school 3-4 program.....

They only just allowed the mentor who works at the school to take study hall off.
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Re: do you guys attend classes regularly during the time between kickoff and shipment?

im just addicted to first and classes are 2nd priority...first comes animation lol....yay for first
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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.

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

we work on our bot only 3 hours a day, every day except sat, sun. on sat we work from 7:30-2:00 so we dont miss classes and our principal is a ^$#&^%$$&*($@(*&&*&($&*$!$&*^ so we couldnt miss class anyways.....unless we go around her and get permission from the super because its a district supported activity in Greece, we probaly could if it comes down to it......
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Re: do you guys attend classes regularly during the time between kickoff and shipment?

although we have one of the best records out of any team in our school, it is only now, 12ish years after the team has been up do they know more than those kids that build the robot every time Team RoboRaiders is mentioned. Even the teachers that are advisor's don't let us off of homework, or anything.
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