Crunch Time... What Do You Do...

[Jaime65]

What do you team do during crunch time? Do you stick to your normal meeting days or do you extend hours?

[Billfred]

Since about Week 4, 1618 has stepped up from its usual two afternoons a week to four afternoons (extending into evenings) a week. Weekends have largely remained a Saturday-only affair.

[jackie Ha]

When we're crunched for time, we have extended hours. But on the rare occasion that it gets really bad, we pull over nighters, working in shifts.

[pheadxdll]

Towards the end, the times for meetings usually get extended. Towards the begaining of the 1st week we meet everyday from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM. This past week we've been starting at 3:15 PM and ending at 11:00 PM. My record lastest time was 11:30 PM

[MrForbes]

wow....1726 has been meeting from early afternoon till 8pm 6 days a week, then a week ago started staying till 9, and the next few days will be 12 hours or so a day, most likely, including Sunday and Monday (a holiday).

At least the robot is actually moving and scoring now...still a lot of driving learning and practice and auton programming to go.

[bubbablahmon]

we end up going later the last week or so... and the day before ship, we stay until its done which is late...

[Guy Davidson]

We've been working into the night for the past week +, and we'll work as much time as necesary this weekend in order to make sure everyone gets the practice they need and time to code and fix.

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Since about Week 4, 1618 has stepped up from its usual two afternoons a week to four afternoons (extending into evenings) a week. Weekends have largely remained a Saturday-only affair.

Wow! We need all the time we can get. We are planning to do 3 straight overnighters with our team this weekend with a rotating work schedule so that progress is made 24/7 before shipping out Tuesday morning.

[santosh]

throughout the first 4 weeks,we did four days a week. Last week we moved it to five and same with this week. Today we are pulling an all nighter before scrimmage.We don't have school monday or tuesday. Hopefully we will be done by tomorrow morning, but who knows lol
I am just really happy that our mentors love us and are ridiculously dedicated so that they are doing this with us.

[BlondeNerd]

We extend hours, especially since we have had no school for the past week. Today the meeting time was "3:00 pm until the cows come home." I'd say that's extended hours.

[EricH]

For us, it's been crunch time for about 3 weeks. I can only think of one day when nobody's even gone in, and one where everyone left early (Super Bowl Sunday). Build sessions run from roughly 7:00 PM to 11 or 11:30, occaisionally later, on weekdays, and 9-5 on Saturdays, with work resuming around 8.

[Ericgehrken]

195 is going to work late tonight to be ready for team 176's scrimmage tomorrow.

[Madison]

We meet three days per week with students and two days without. It gives the mentor-folk a chance to plan things out, organize tasks for our students to accomplish, and take care of some of he boring work that students can't participate in such as milling.

Since last weekend, we've left the lab on most days no earlier than midnight. Once I go out tonight, I'm not planning on being home again until Sunday. It's better not to raise my expectations too high by thinking of things as exotic as food or sleep or a social life.

I'm sure most of the kids will be there right along side me, but because we meet so far away from many of their homes -- 20+ miles for some folks and completely unable to get home without team transportation -- a lot of parents force their kids home early.

[geekofband007]

Well since we had a couple snow days over the season mainly this week we have had to extend regular hours. basicly this weekend we arnt planning on sleeping like on saturday we are probally going to from 10 o clock in the mornin to like 12 or 1 at night and same with sunday and mabye monday so basicly we are going and aint stopping

[Tim Delles]

we have shifted into over drive (considering we are building 2 of them). We should get both completed and tweaked by monday night for our design review. This last week we held meetings every night (6 - 12am) and saturday 10 - when we all passed out in the morning