Hard to Meet Upcoming Deadlines!!!

[DonRotolo]

Well said, Chuck.

In my opinion, no such additional time should be awarded or considered. Sometimes, in real life, things happen that are completely beyond your control, but you are still responsible and accountable to deliver on time. Learning how to recover from such a hardship is part of the educational experience you're getting from FIRST.

In life, IT Happens. And when it does, professionals get to work to make IT Happen on time.

[JaneYoung]

Every year there are teams who struggle to meet the deadlines for one reason or another. It is built into challenge. Even if every single person involved in FRC could completely clear their calendars from Kick Off through Ship Date, and focus on nothing but the competition - challenges within the challenge would arise, of that I am certain. They are simply built in as part of what teams must grapple with, face, and overcome. I also think that those folks at FIRST who set the wheels in motion each year, monitor and keep a watch out for problem areas and issues. We see that reflected in our updates. We also see that in decisions that are made during the build season. It's not something we should take for granted.

When pressures mount, patience wanes, and stress is strong - CD is a great place to turn to for inspiration. The current threads are awesome and hold lots of humor, thought, advice, and inspiration. (118's latest video comes to mind.) The older threads also hold wisdom, thought, advice, and inspiration. One of the threads that I always look for sometime during build season that always makes me smile and realize the measure of a team, is a good one that provokes thoughts and soothes the soul. This post in the thread is one of my very favorites and I'm grateful to Heidi for the beginning of the story and to Dave for the rest of the story. (Heidi's post is included as a quote in Dave's post.)While searching for this post, I came across some threads that were concerned with schools closing, snow, shipping problems, etc. Those challenges are part of our history in FRC.

Try not to waste your energy and time thinking of alternative solutions to avoid the deadline. Instead, dig deep and meet it. You can do it.

Jane

[rsisk]

If rendering on the schools computers, is there no way to Remote Desktop into them to do the rendering remotely?

[nikeairmancurry]

Depending on the school, No... At my highschool, I can't even get to Chiefdelphi... and trying to ask for that is a pain in the butt... Asknig for remote acess to the school, is out of the question for most highschools.. Until I came to U of Michigan.. I never knew of remote acess...

[Cyberphil]

Thank you for your input everyone. I'm not as worried about our team as I am about other teams. We can remote access our computers at school (which we do), and we can put the program on our home computers (although that would be a complete waste of time in my opinion). I do now understand that FIRST intended it to be this way, which is an idea that I have never thought of before, and now that I think of it, I'm sure that FIRST intended it to be this way. This thread has somehow given me a new appreciation for FIRST.

Thank you all very much.

[Cyberphil]

If anyone is unaware, this deadline was extended to wednesday, Febuary 17th. I guess Autodesk made an exception this year...