Does a School Closing affect your progress during build season?

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by kmcclary

Personally, in the future I'd like to see a rule that gives teams the ability to appeal their ship date with FIRST whenever "natural disasters" delay their build season. I'd like to see an "add one day per snow day to the ship date" policy instituted (limit 5 additional?), given a written statement from the school that "they were not allowed to meet at their build location for XX days, due to factors beyond the team's control" (and outline them).

If the build was totally "equal opportunity", this wouldn't be needed. But that's not true. An extension policy for "extenuating circumstances" only seems fair. Southern teams don't encounter snow days like northern ones do. Mid-continental teams never encounter down time from coastal hurricanes or floods. Plains states don't see CA mudslides. ANY team's town may encounter a major power grid outage, or an epidemic "shutting down the town" (etc, etc...).

Just my $0.02...

- Keith McClary
Chief Engineer, Team 1502 "Technical Difficulties"

I understand what you are saying but as it has been said many times FIRST isn't always fair. Just like in the real world weather may delay your work but your customers deadlines don't change. All part of life and the real world.