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Unread 13-12-2002, 22:31
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We do the majority of our robot work at school...no matter what the weather. We have access to the school on snow days, holidays, weekends and late at night.

We are fortunate to enjoy the support of our Board of School Directors and the Superintendent of Schools. The manager of the Facilities Department has been involved with our team as our "Director of Special Projects". I am an administrator with the school district and part of my role as a team leader is to foster and promote these relationships.
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Re: How & where do you build the bot when it snows and your robo-base (school) is closed?

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When our town decides to close our school, they don't let ANYONE in at all, not even to grab some stuff to work on. This is really frustrating when your robot is due in 3 days and we can't get in the school to work on it.

How do you other teams deal with this problem?
If you stay all night, do they kick you out? If they do than just say that it's more dangerous to go home han to stay, and while your there you might as well get some work done
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Unread 14-12-2002, 15:42
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pshhh, snow is child's play compared to the predicament our team is in... (and every other NYC team at that.) on snow days, we can get to school no problem, but when there is a MTA Strike, were all screwed. (in case you don't know, the MTA runs all the busses, subways and ferries i believe in NYC). at least this is happening now, and not at the beginning of the season. but who knows, this may go on for weeks to come. people NEED to have the subways and busses to get to school, virtually no students get rides, especially high school students.
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Unread 15-12-2002, 16:20
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Well, my school rarley has snow days because it's usually no matter how much snow there is, we have school, so that problem has yet to arise.
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Re: How & where do you build the bot when it snows and your robo-base (school) is clo

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Katie's right about that. Were lucky if we get two hour delay (more time to sleep) ! So far this year, we haven't had any snow stay on the ground.
Our school never closes either! Last year, we got to leave 10 minutes early one day. We were the only school in the area (maybe even the whole state) that stayed open after noon. It was great. Yay for Minnesota!
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Re: How & where do you build the bot when it snows and your robo-base (school) is clo

If school is closed and the weather is bad past noon or so, then we don't meet. If the weather clears up and the roads are clean enough to meet, then we will.
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Re: How & where do you build the bot when it snows and your robo-base (school) is clo

The robot was finished in my garage last year when the mid-Atlantic got the 4in of pack ice from the sky.
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Re: How & where do you build the bot when it snows and your robo-base (school) is clo

We don't build at the school, and this year we haven't had a problem with snow. However we did call off a build day last year because of it. Our general rule is that if the school thinks it's dangerous for the students to come in to school, then it's also dangerous for them to come to our build space. For the most part, students have 2 years or less of driving, which really isn't sufficient experience to be safe when it's snowing heavily out or the roads are real bad. Even now, i avoid going out if the roads are bad if it's at all possible, and i have way more experience driving in bad weather than any students in FIRST do. Safety FIRST!
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Re: How & where do you build the bot when it snows and your robo-base (school) is clo

Our school never closes because of snow(we live in MN and we never close) All the schools around us end up closing but White Bear Never Closes. The only thing they close on is Sat, Sun, and some Holidays, but school is ussually still open and we will work on the robot if any of the mentors are available to miss work to come to school.
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Re: How & where do you build the bot when it snows and your robo-base (school) is clo

We have been able to get the Vice Principal to unlock the doors for us, and we also have a secondary warehouse.
Its all about how nice you are to the people with power at the school. if you do things for them, they do things for you (and your team).
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Re: How & where do you build the bot when it snows and your robo-base (school) is clo

When school is closed here, EVERYONE is locked out. The alarms are armed, and no one is allowed to be in, or enter the building. They're serious about this.

We've had three school closings during build seasons: one last year and two this year. Last year, they announced at the end of the day that the snow was coming down too fast, and after-school activities were cancelled. That time, we packed up and took the robot to my house, where we continued to work until the end of the build season.

This year, we had two closings: one because of a bomb threat, which didn't hurt anything, since we had chosen to leave our robot and supplies at the machine shop owned by one of our sponsors. The other closing this year was because of a snow day, and although the robot was in the teacher's van, most of our supplies were locked away in the school. Thankfully, it was not problematic because we didn't happen to need any of that stuff (we were mostly doing new fabrication that day), but it made me realize that we can be shut down very easily for something minor. If that day was supposed to be for programming or electrical and we'd left the laptop or wire and crimp terminals at the school, we would've been stuck trying to figure out what we could do.

When you have the possibility of heavy lake-effect snow, it's good to plan ahead to help prevent wasted days. I am thankful for the fact that we don't have as many problems with weather as some other teams. It would be horrible to be locked out of the school for five days, or have your shop flooded (which I believe one team had a few years ago).

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Re: How & where do you build the bot when it snows and your robo-base (school) is clo

Like your team, we were unable to build our robot, however we made up that time by doing 16 hours days the weekend before we ship! Due to an excessive 3 snow days this year, all which happen to be within the 2 weeks we whipped our robot...
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Re: How & where do you build the bot when it snows and your robo-base (school) is clo

Ya we are able to have the principle unlock the school doors on the sunday before shipping, and it is true knowing an being nice to people in power
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What is this thing "snow" you talk about. I have never seen it.

Guess thats one good thing about being a SoCal team.........
Heh, I was thinking the same thing when I saw the title of this thread . We only ever get frost down in southeastern AZ... I think the coldest it got this year was ~30 degrees
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