Limits on Team Hours

[Katie_UPS]

Time caps are limiting. In the real world, you work however long it takes until your project gets done by the deadline.
But, one thing no one mentioned that surprises me: Work smarter, not harder.
If you can't shake this ban, then (I'm about to sound cruel) live with it [/cruel]. Do what you can when you can. If you can't build for the first hour, write chairman's, get homework done, CAD... Do whatever you can do without loud-noised tools. At the school we work at, we can't work (with power tools) until a mentor shows up. That can be up to an hour and a half after the students get there. What do we do in the meantime? Homework, I set up the welding booth, we get stuff out of storage, we get team input on important things, we eat...

Also, I have to echo that it can't be a bad thing. If I'm missing a single assignment during build, my parents don't let me attend meetings. I let everything else go during robotics: I eat/sleep poorly. My friends can't wait till after my first regional. I couldn't have a job because there was no way I could work around it. My parents (and friends and teachers) would LOVE to see this put into effect.

I'm not saying I'd be thrilled to have this put in effect with my team, but I'm saying that it might just be a hurdle. You're gunna have to jump.