how often does your team meet during build season?

[vivek16]

I had no idea that people had build sessions so long. I am going to be leadership this year and I was just wondering if there should be someone there all the time?

Wow, I am stunned at how much people meet. I think we might stick with until about 6 each day after school(our school starts at 7:30 and gets out at 2:30) so we will have a good 3 hours of build time everyday. We probably will have saturdays mandatory unless religion requires otherwise.

That is just what my opinion right now. I am taking out the time requirement part of the rookie presentation and it will require some serious discussion on the veteran members' behalf. Thank you guys and please keep the opinions coming.

thanks, vivek

[EricH]

Saturdays 9-5; after 5, break for church (one of the services starts at 6:00, but there is a meal at 5 and we build pretty close by). Required to show up for a little while.
Sunday afternoon: typically around 1 or 2-whenever. I often left at 6:30 for Scouts. Not required.
Monday -Thursday: After 7 or so to around 9. Wednesdays were pretty sparse due to other commitments from a large portion of the team. Not required; pretty much just subteams.
Friday: 7-whenever (remembering the marathon the next day). Mandatory; usually a status update and future planning happened either here or Saturday morning. Also travel and other "miscellaneous" meetings at this time.

Translation: Someone will be in the shop almost every night and at least half the day on weekends. Exceptions: Super Bowl Sunday (nobody shows up) and Valentine's Day (no married mentors allowed in the shop, unless they have made other arrangements for another time, though we've eased a little on this).

[Vexkingof716]

Team 716 has a schedule that changes week by week. We start with the sunday after kick off from 12 to 5. that is the only time we meet on a sunday unless the robot was totally massacered from winter warzone scrimmage. then we meet monday thursday saturday, then after 2 to three weeks monday thru saturday. during the weekdays we meet 5 to 9, and saturday 9 to 5. the day before we ship on that monday we start at 9 till the robot is ready. in the past they have had to work till midnight, luckly we ship our robot from a factory that runs 24/7.

[Koko Ed]

We meet Wednesday's 5-8
Saturdays from 9-5
Plus extra hours are required.
Face it. If you're just working build season on your scheduled hours then you're just doing it part time.

[=Martin=Taylor=]

Our mechanics sub-group meets almost every day during the build season. During the workweek we only meet for three or so hours to discuss strategy and design, and to order parts. We almost never build anything during these days. This allows the students to focus on homework and school.

Friday and Saturday are the days when we actually build things. We work until the parts are finished. If they're done at 7:00 that’s a good thing If they're done at 1:00... that just sucks. We figure that no one is actually going to be doing homework on these days anyways, so robotics won't interfere with school.

We also work on Sunday, but only until 4:00 so people can finish their homework.