How much time?

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Posted by bill whitley.

Student on team #70, Auto City Bandits, from Powers Catholic High School and Kettering University.

Posted on 11/9/2000 7:27 PM MST



How many days a week are other teams working on their CDI robots? How many hours a week?

We (team 70) are working 2 days a week, about 6-7 hours and we seem to be pretty well on track.

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Posted by Nick .

Student on team #240, Mach V, from Jefferson Monroe High School and Visteon.

Posted on 11/10/2000 4:05 AM MST


In Reply to: How much time? posted by bill whitley on 11/9/2000 7:27 PM MST:



This last week the team(240) and I have met in my pole barn every day. We will usually work for 2-3 daily hours during the week and 6-8 on the weekend days. Our problem is we keep getting off track, such as standing around talking, instead of getting some serious work done. I think much of this is due to the fact that half of our team made up of rookies who can't seem to find anything to work on without being told yet. We are making quite a bit of progress though

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Posted by bill whitley.

Student on team #70, Auto City Bandits, from Powers Catholic High School and Kettering University.

Posted on 11/13/2000 6:13 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: How much time? posted by Nick on 11/10/2000 4:05 AM MST:



When i thought in the past that my team was struggling due to poor funding & poor facilities. It didnt really come to mind that we weren't working as much as other teams. Unfortunatly, if my team tried to impose those hours, we would have about 4 people on the team. Last year we had multiple members quit the team when it was announced that we would be expected to work 14 hours/week. Thanks for the insight.

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Posted by Nick .

Student on team #240, Mach V, from Jefferson Monroe High School and Visteon.

Posted on 11/15/2000 3:55 AM MST


In Reply to: wow. posted by bill whitley on 11/13/2000 6:13 PM MST:



Last year, for FIRST, we had some students log in over 200 hours

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Posted by bill whitley.

Student on team #70, Auto City Bandits, from Powers Catholic High School and Kettering University.

Posted on 11/16/2000 6:45 PM MST


In Reply to: You think that is bad? posted by Nick on 11/15/2000 3:55 AM MST:



: Last year, for FIRST, we had some students log in over 200 hours

I personally would jump at the chance to be able to put that amount of time in. We are however actually limited on the number of hours we are able to work. Our 'coaches' are only there for about 2 hours a day. Every day after school they take off at 6, with some students still willing to work.

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Posted by John von Linsowe.

Coach on team #494, Goodrich Martians, from Goodrich High School and Tiechon Industries.

Posted on 11/13/2000 11:52 AM MST


In Reply to: How much time? posted by bill whitley on 11/9/2000 7:27 PM MST:



: How many days a week are other teams working on their CDI robots? How many hours a week?

Saturday was a 15 hour day on the robot. Probably about the average.

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Posted by Raul.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling HS and Motorola.

Posted on 11/13/2000 12:29 PM MST


In Reply to: How much time? posted by bill whitley on 11/9/2000 7:27 PM MST:



We cannot afford to burn people out before the FIRST season starts. So we do 3 hours each on Monday and Wednesday and 8 hours on the weekends. Although, this week we will meet Monday through Thursday.

Raul

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Posted by Janna.

Student on team #349, The RoBahamas, from International Academy and Ford Motor Company and Robert Bosch GmbH.

Posted on 11/13/2000 6:32 PM MST


In Reply to: How much time? posted by bill whitley on 11/9/2000 7:27 PM MST:



My team has been working anywhere from 2 to 6 hours after school every day. The weekend time varies...usually both days, but probably around 4 hours per day. We seem to be doing pretty well in terms of time. Hopefully we'll be finished when we see you all on Saturday.

Janna