Problems in School :(

[Bertozzi1990]

Well one of our teachers is a little bothered by us going to Robotics trips and wants us to ask a couple of questions to other team members and report back to him ... so pleaseeeee if you can answer these questions for me , and other members of the team that has the same teacher ... .. thankss

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First Initial , Last Name, School , Location

1. What classes are you currently taking
2. What is your toughest class? Easiest class? What makes them so?
3. What are the requirements to be on the robotics team in your
school?
4. How long have you been on the team?
5. What is your GPA?
6. What college do you plan on attending?
7. How much time do you spend a day? week? month? involved in extra-
curricular activities including the robotics team?
8. How much time do you speand a day? week? month? doing community
service?
9. How many required books have you read so far this year? How
many personal books have you read?
10. Do you have an AP classes in your school?



We have to write a paper based on these information ... and it means alot if we get you guys to help us out ... Thanks

Panthers,
#714

[prettycolors91]

M. Crowley Milford HS Michigan

1. Band, German, AP US History, Advanced American Lit and Comp, Chemistry 1, Geometry
2. Chemistry, because we move fast, and some of the concepts are hard to understand. English is my easiest, because I love to read and write
3. A 2.00 minimum GPA (out of 4.00). We have to write an admission essay with our application, also.
4. This is my second year on the team
5. 3.0
6. Grand Valley State University or University of Rochester
7. In the fall, I spend 3 or 4 hours per week mentoring a local FLL team. During the fall, I also have marching band (3 days a week, 3 hours each. Friday night football games, and all day on saturdays (which is usually 7 am to about midnight)). In the winter, I have FRC (which is 3 week days, 2 hours each, and an 8 hour meeting). I also have Robofest alongside this, which is for about 4 hours each week, running from the end of december until may. I also volunteer for the public library, but those hours are not very much during the school year, though I volunteer a few days a week in the summer.
8. I volunteer 3 or 4 days a week for the milford library in the summer. I mentor a FLL team in the fall/winter. The HOT team also does road cleanups (2 per year), a river cleanup, parades (4th of july, thanksgiving day parade), freshman orientation (for two highschools), and tries to hit all of the elementary schools in our district for demonstrations. You do the math
9. 6 required. about 100 not required (literally)
10. Yes, we do have AP classes

Hope I helped a little bit!
~Megan

[peaseonearth]

P , Pease, SHS , Suffield CT

1. AP Bio, AP BC Calc, AP/UCONN English, AP Computers and CIM
2. Toughest class: BC Calc. Easiest: AP Bio. BC Calc is hard because calculus is a pain and Bio is easy because it's straight memorization.
3. Something like a C average, same as for sports.
4. 4 years
5. 3.56
6. Boston University
7. 3 hours per day, 35 per week hundreds per month.
8. 1 a day 5 a week 21 a month
9. 8 required books, 3 personal books
10. Yes, 4 in fact

[JackN]

J. Nowakowski, Goodrich High School, Goodrich Michigan

1. BLOCK SCHEDULE (1:30 Classes) Speech and Drama, AP English (Language), Environmental Science, Physics
2. My Toughest is English because it is a college level class. My easiest is Speech because I am already a pretty good public speaker and I took because it is a Blow Off class
3. 2.5 GPA and come to meetings twice a week
4. Since my freshman year
5. 3.825
6. Michigan State or Specs Howard School of The Broadcast Arts
7. Probably about 10 Hours a week normally and 15-20 Hours during build season. Marching band, NHS, Boy Scouts, and Robotics are what I do.
8. This school year I will have done a little more than 50 hours of CS.
9. I have read 5.5 Required books (Halfway through The Sound and The Fury by Faulkner) And about 10 non-required
10. Yes we do, US History, Both Englishes, Government, Chem is in the works for next year and you can take any other as an Online Course. I have taken APUSH and am taking APENG.

[whytheheckme]

J. Komar, University High School for Science and Engineering and The University of Hartford, Hartford CT

I am currently a Junior in High School and a Junior in College. My major is Computer Engineering. I am 14 years old.

1. I am currently taking Electronic Circuit Analysis II (with lab), Microprocessor Systems, Engineering by Design II, Western Heritage, and Gym.
2. My toughest class (not this semester) probably was Lit (writing). This semester, the toughest class is probably Gym . My easiest class (not this semester) was probably Calc IV, and this semester, probably Microprocessor Systems.
3. 50 Build Hours, 70 average failing no subjects, participate in 2 fundraisers and visit 6 buisnesses, raising a total of 300 dollars. We also require 6 hours of team community service (and our school requires 70 hours of individual service over your 4 years.) I have completed about 300 Build Hours, have a 91 average (including college courses), and have done all of the fundraising reqs ($450). I run a non-profit corporation, and have put in thousands of hours over the years.
4. This is my third year.
5. 3.81
6. I am attending the University of Hartford
7. During build, I spend between 13 and 18 hours a day 7 days a week at robotics. Off season, I spend about 10 hours a week doing robotics related activities.
8. I spend every spare minute not doing school work or robotics working on my corporation. This is perhaps between 40 and 70 hours a week on off-season.
9. I am not enrolled in english this year, but have read 6 required books for Western Heritage. I have also read about 15 pleasure books sinse September.
10. We do have AP classes at my High School. I do not take any of them.

Hope this helps!

Jacob

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[Stvn]

Originally Posted by Bertozzi1990

First Initial , Last Name, School , Location

1. What classes are you currently taking
2. What is your toughest class? Easiest class? What makes them so?
3. What are the requirements to be on the robotics team in your
school?
4. How long have you been on the team?
5. What is your GPA?
6. What college do you plan on attending?
7. How much time do you spend a day? week? month? involved in extra-
curricular activities including the robotics team?
8. How much time do you spend a day? week? month? doing community
service?
9. How many required books have you read so far this year? How
many personal books have you read?
10. Do you have an AP classes in your school?

S Rhodes, Woodside High School at Woodside, CA
1. AS English II, H AS Chem, Modern European History, Pre-Calc, Latin II, Band
2. Toughest/Funnest: AS Chem - Good labs, I learn stuff. Easy : Pre-Calc - I've slept through multiple classes, Math is easy for me.
3. Show up and do stuff.
4. 3 years
5. 4.17
6. Hopefully CalTech, but who knows?
7. 2-4 hours a day, unless it's build season.
8. It depends. Maybe five hours a month or so.
9. Required: 4, Personal: 20+
10. Since the only AP class sophomores can have is AS Chem, I have only one.

[Andrew Blair]

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Andrew Blair, Corry Area High School , Corry, PA

1. Block Scheduling: CADII, Advanced Robotics, Honors English, PhysicsII, Concert Band (Physics and Band are a split block I shoved together)

2. Toughest class this semester is probably Honors English. But it's a godsend compared to AP/ChemIII last semester. Easiest class is Advanced Robotics this semester. ChemIII was hard because of the teacher compounding the understanding of the material mostly, along with AP Calc on top of it all. AP Calc was easy, but the workload aggravated my ChemIII class and frustration. Advanced robotics is easy because we just build the robot!

3. 75%, proficiency, as required by sports and all other activities.

4. Since 9th grade, when you can first join. Before that, I was on our FLL team from its pilot. So, 4 years in FLL, approaching 4 years in FRC.

5. ~98.1, 3.92, as I can remember (unweighted).

6. Wish I knew. CMU or RIT perhaps.

7. During build, I spend about 20-30+ hours a week, as well as during soccer season. In the few months not encompassed by sports or FIRST, perhaps 30-50 hours a month.

8. Depending on the time of year, 3-10 hours a month is about usual.

9. Haha, this year? Two books have been required, and apart from that, I've slacked. Honestly, I haven't read a personal book since summer, though I actively read Popsci and National Geographic.

10. AP Calc is the only official AP course we offer. ChemIII offered the AP exam, but the class was not officially designated. We do have many honors and advanced courses however.

[lukevanoort]

J , Van Oort, Riverside High , Durham, NC

1. This semester: AP BC Calculus, UNC-G "iSchool" US History, AP Physics, Honors Molecular Biology. Last semester: AP Biology II, AP English III, AP AB Calculus, Honors Physics I.
2. Out of the entire year, the toughest is AP Biology, because I hate memorization and am not too good at it. Easiest was definitely Honors Physics, primarily because I was already familiar with a lot of the concepts due to robotics.
3. Similar to sports teams, but I can't remember exactly.
4. This is my third year.
5. 4.613
6. Undecided.
7. The amount of time I spend depends on whether you count researching robot designs in the off season. Regardless of whether we have meetings or not, I tend to average near an hour of that every day. Without that, not a lot, since robotics is my only extra-curricular, so about two hours a weekday during the build season and five-six hours a day on the weekend.
8. Unfortunately, none. I did about about 4 a month last year volunteering at at a local elementary school tutoring in reading , but my transportation fell through.
9. I would say something like 5 for school, and about the same out of school. I used to read a lot more out of school, but now I have a lot of trouble finding books that appeal to me.
10. Yes.

[ChristinaR]

C. Rizer, Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School; Bridgewater, MA

1. Pre-Calc, Spanish V, English, AP Bio, AP Chem, and Chinese & Chorale (at a local college)
2. Toughest/Best: Definitely AP Chem. It's hard, but a lot of fun. One of our coaches is the teacher. Easiest: Pre-calc.
3. Raising $650, attendance at team meetings, participation in two of the subgroups of our team (Website & Animation, Build, Art, Chairman's, etc.), at least 30 hours of work for the team (20 for rookies), good grades (Cs and up) and a genuine interest in FIRST.
4. 3 years
5. 3.88 (unweighted)
6. I won't know for awhile. I'm hoping for Columbia!
7. A lot! I've never clocked the amount.
8. It depends on what time of year. Usually it's about 3-6 hours per month.
9. 5 required books, I think. If there were more, we didn't go over them! I read 5 personal books as well.
10. Yes, we have'em.

Good luck with your paper!

[Laura 1547]

I'll give you some Canadian results haha

L. Hildred, Trafalgar Castle School, Whitby, ON, Canada

1. Physics, AP Math, Chemistry, English, Accounting, Law, AP Computer Science
2. Toughest would be computer science because basically I don't understand it and computers hate me. Both those things don't work well together. Easiest would be physics cause I actually like and understand what we're doing.
3. You just have to show up to all or most of the meetings.
4. This is my third year.
5. Canadian to American conversion I'm a 3.9. My average is 86.6% though
6. University of Western Ontario
7. I'm usually busy with something directly after school ever night along with robotics. Going by that it's 6 hours a night, plus 12 hours on the weekend for robotics (24 hours on the last weekend before ship).
8. I usually do a couple hours every month. Right now I'm sitting at about 70 hours in the past 2 years.
9. Required I've read about 3 book. Personal I haven't read any - unless you count magazines.
10. Yes but only AP math, english, and computer science are offered in grade 11. Only a couple more than that are offered in grade 12.

Hope that helps!!

[d.courtney]

(this is Canadian)
David Courtney, Kincardine District Secondary School , Kincardine, Ontario

1. English, Chemistry, Calculus, AP Calculus BC(thats outside of school), Data Management, English Media
2. Toughest - English, reason I am a math science guy, and anything English doesn't come naturally to me. Easiest class-Calculus, all math is just easy for me.
3. None, other then schoolwork comes before robotics... we never want to exclude anyone or make it feel like it is academic only.
4. 4 years.
5. I have a 92% average and a 3.7 GPA
6. University of Waterloo
7. About 5-7 hours a day
8. Volunteer all summer long each year, have almost a thousand hours (among 3 years) in my community service book (in Ontario you need 40 recorded hours to graduate) as far as daily or weekly... during school I don't do so much.
9. Required- none (it should be 3 by now)... for myself -10
10. not in, but you can take them separate from the school after hours.

[JoeXIII'007]

J. Smith; Willow Run High School; Ypsilanti, MI

1. What classes are you currently taking

Two independent studies: Geometry and Advanced Physics (though I intended to go into AP matter, the hour became more of a tinkering phase, exploration/experimentation sort of deal, a lot of fun)
AP Literature
Art
Spanish
Newspaper Publications
Calculus 2 via Dual Enrollment

2. What is your toughest class? Easiest class? What makes them so?

Leaving out the independent studies, AP Literature and Calc 2 are the hardest, Spanish is pretty simple.

3. What are the requirements to be on the robotics team in your
school?

I couldn't tell you, but we try and keep people at ~2.5 GPA, and make sure they are doing something on the team, otherwise, we kick them out.

4. How long have you been on the team?

This is my 4th official year.

5. What is your GPA?

4.0

6. What college do you plan on attending?

Lawrence Technological University

7. How much time do you spend a day? week? month? involved in extra-
curricular activities including the robotics team?

I have never kept track. Any given day it could be 1-3 hours on average. At least ten a week. 40 a month, etc, but its not that much, these are just estimates.

8. How much time do you spend a day? week? month? doing community
service?

Community service I do in the fall, and it is at least 20 hours. For the past 2 years, I have been doing at least 30 per year with FLL mentoring and either board representative or NHS work.

9. How many required books have you read so far this year? How
many personal books have you read?

At least 5 books and several long classical poems. Personal books I barely read, but that is not to say I do not read period. I read the Detroit Free Press daily, read the RSS feeds from MSNBC and ArsTechnica, plus read Maximum PC and PC World whenever I get around to it.

10. Do you have an AP classes in your school?

1: AP Literature

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Refer this teacher to Dean Kamen, that is all I have to say...

[koolguy8907]

K Paysinger. Trenton Central High. Trenton,NJ

1. Manufacturing Technology, AutoCAD, Gym, and Structural Engineering
2. AutoCAD is my tuffest. it to much designing. Gym the easiest, i like to be active
3. You have to b in our school community and passing with a C
4. This make my third year being on the team
5. 3.84 is my GPA
6. Mercer County Community College for Automotive Engineering
7. I spend 10hrs a day, 6 days (7 sometimes) a week, all during the building season
8. I do community service during the summer and it varies.
9. I read 6 books so far. only 2 were required
10. not this year last year i had AP classes

[Kim Masi]

1. Sociology, Jazz Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, AP Physics, Anatomy, AP Calculus, AP English
2. My toughest class is Physics- because the material is extensive and we move at a really fast pace
Easiest academic class is Anatomy because its just memorization
3. We dont have any requirements to be on the team
4. This is my fourth year
5. Weighted, 3.9
6. Northeastern University
7. A day-Average-3 hours
a week-25+ hours
a month 100+ hours
8. 2 hours a week for the last two years
9. I've read 4 required books, and 2 unrequired books so far this academic year
10. Yes, chemistry, biology, physics, statistics, calculus, english, world history, government, spanish and french

[LordTalps]

Originally Posted by Bertozzi1990

P. Boyd, Battlefield High School , Haymarket, Virginia

1. What classes are you currently taking
--English 12
--Physics I
--AP Calculus BC
--Advanced Computer Studies
--AP Government
--Certified Internet Webmaster
--Database Design & Management
2. What is your toughest class? Easiest class? What makes them so?
Toughest: AP Government. The volume of knowledge and concepts is simply huge. None of them by themselves are hard, but remembering all of them, their uses, and how they interrelate is a lot to remember.

Easiest: English 12. Shouldn't have taken it, should be in AP English. Slow, slow, slow. Easy, easy, easy.

3. What are the requirements to be on the robotics team in your
school?
Interest, as far as I know, is the only requirement. That and behavior, I 'spose.
4. How long have you been on the team?
2 years
5. What is your GPA?
4.041, as of last year. Would be higher if I didn't screw off as a freshman.
6. What college do you plan on attending?
Already accepted to Virginia Tech
7. How much time do you spend a day? week? month? involved in extra-
curricular activities including the robotics team?
A day, depends. A week, between 10 and 74 (pulled 3 all-nighters in the last week). Average probably between 20 and 30 hours. A month? Oh dear, that's a large number.
8. How much time do you speand a day? week? month? doing community
service?
1 or 2 hours tutoring a week. I also participate in Boy Scout service projects and led my own as I work towards Eagle.
9. How many required books have you read so far this year? How
many personal books have you read?
Required? 2 or 3 I think. On my own time, some random number between 10 and 30.
10. Do you have an AP classes in your school?
Yep, I took 4 AP classes last year along with Robotics, including going to the Championships.

There ya go.