School Closings

[Matt C]

Wasn't there some type of extension back in 2k3 due to a blizzard near ship date?

[Jherbie53]

Originally Posted by Matt C

Wasn't there some type of extension back in 2k3 due to a blizzard near ship date?

There was a major snow storm in the north east in 2003 and 2004, so they decided to extend the ship deadline to Thursday rather then Tuesday for both years.

Now we don't officially have it at the school on snow days, but it you are passing by and happen to see some cars outside and are wondering whats going on, you can come in. We also stress that if the roads or weather are bad don't come in. I remember a couple of years ago is was so bad that some of the people from Fruitport, which is about 40 mins north of us, on the team had to stay with one of our mentors for the night. It's not worth getting into an accident at night so you can be at school in the morning.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Jherbie53

There was a major snow storm in the north east in 2003 and 2004, so they decided to extend the ship deadline to Thursday rather then Tuesday for both years.

I thought '04 was due to KOP issues... Both years, 330 was glad of the extension due to two more full days of being able to work on (or repair) the robot.

[Jherbie53]

Originally Posted by EricH

I thought '04 was due to KOP issues... Both years, 330 was glad of the extension due to two more full days of being able to work on (or repair) the robot.

Your probably right, I didn't pay as much attention then as I do now to that type of stuff. But I thought there was a storm around that time, it might not of been as bad as 2003, but I could be wrong. We were also glad for the extra two day as well both years. Of well, it doesn't really matter, unless its to educate others and me.

[chinckley]

We have had 4 snow days so far during build season, including today.
We have also had 2 teacher PD days (so students were not at school) and
had to get back to school. There were 3 other days (the nights before snow days) where it was so bad they would not let us stay. We work in the school, so we can work when they say. So basically we have lost a full week. It really hurts.

There can be more snow days after ship, but please no more this week.
We built in some days, but this is getting out of control.

Carolyn

[Racer26]

I'm pretty sure most of the other South-Central Ontario teams can back me up when I say that the American school boards are pretty wussy when it comes to a little bit of the white stuff. Here in Durham Region there have been exactly ZERO snow days this year, and its nearly been our snowiest winter ever. They're talking about shattering 70+ year old records, and the most they do is cancel the buses. There have been at least 3 different occasions where we received 20+cm (8"+) in a given night this year. Even when there are snow days, its just more time to work on the robot. But unlike some schools, by the sound of it, we're in every weekend too.

[zacattack]

My school sucks, we had 22 in of snow in North Ogden, Utah and they didn't even cancel school! There have also been other times where we got a lot of snow, one day over 700(out of 1800) students didn't even go to school when there was a foot.

[k4r3n2]

Yeah, our two snow days during build season were quite horrible thanks to the fearless mentor's plowing, although the second one was an early closing and we camped out in my fearless teammate's basement to work on the drivetrain after emptying our room at school of all useful things It'll get done somehow!

[Blue_Mist]

This makes me appreciate California weather. Today we had eerily good weather, with sun, a few clouds and a light breeze. Global warming starting to take effect here by the coast... And I've never seen snow in my eleven years in California, but I have seen hail and ice on the roads (not good when you bike to school!). And bit of crunchy frost on the grass soaking through my shoes when it melts.

And we've talked about sleeping in the shop for so many years, but never actually done it. Maybe this'll be the year?

[octothorpe]

Originally Posted by Blue_Mist

And we've talked about sleeping in the shop for so many years, but never actually done it. Maybe this'll be the year?

Just watch, we'll stay overnight at the shop and sometime in the early morning a freak blizzard will hit, burying the school in 5 feet of snow and preventing any entrance or exit. Thus we will be forced to do nothing but work on the robot for the entirety of the four-day-weekend... with dedicated parents dropping pizza slices in through the ventilation shafts in the roof.

[fnsnet]

The Technical Drawing teacher at my School (616) knew the code to the alarm, so snow days were a blessing for us. We'd go to the school about 10am and work all day.

The school building was really 3 buildings attached together though, (Middle School, Technical School, and High School) so once or twice we've walked a little to far up the hallway and set off either the high school or middle school alarm. Those days were fun.


Matt

[catsylve]

Last year security got kind of tired of us being in at all hours so the school re-keyed an outside door for us. They kind of look the other way on snow days, except when the security guy stops by and asks how the robot is doing!
The best part of the snow days this year is that when they cancelled work for the first time ever, our engineering mentors showed up and we took a break to play snow kickball before going back to work. Yeah, we like snow days here too.

[Kat Kononov]

My school is residential, and it makes everyone go home every 6 weeks for an extended weekend. Well one of these weekends happens to fall on Feb 14 through Feb 18 (the last 4 days!!!). Last year we moved all of our stuff to a teammate's garage where several space heaters weren't able to bring the temperature above 40 degrees. We finished the robot somehow though. This year we are moving to my basement, which is at least insulated so it should be much better.