do you guys attend classes regularly during the time between kickoff and shipment?

[Freddy Schurr]

Yeah, with college classes, mentoring Team 204, and FIRST volunteering and trying to find a new job, it is pretty stressful but enjoyable. We work from Mon to Thurs 2:30 to 6:30 and the last 3 weeks of build season, we come in on Sat from 9:00 to 2:00. But like I tell my students and even myself sometimes, classes and maintain good grades are more important than trying to figure out why a CIM motor goes in a wrong direction. You need to stay on top of your classes or you will be back as a returning freshman on next year's team.

[Kim Masi]

I attend 6 classes a day but i take 8 classes at a time. Its been so stressful the last few weeks with quizzes, tests and other various essays and projects. I am also going for my gold award in Girl Scouts, so that takes a few hours out of my week too. Thank goodness for vacation next week...

and think of it this way, build season is heading into its final two weekends...almost there you guys!

[Greg Needel]

I am in the same boat as other in this thread... I am on co-op working instead of classes. I am very lucky that my workplace knows all about FIRST and supports it so i can take time off for working with a team and going to competitions. I learned my early years in college that the only thing you get from doing college and classes is a low GPA.

[paulcd2000]

apparently we're different, because we only work until like 8 at night, and so we can't miss class, because we don't have any at night

[Nimmy]

oh I don't have any class at night, but since we are at school until 6-7AM the school lets us sleep during school times, the bummer is that in the end of the project I'm gonna have a tough problem shifting the hours back so I go to sleep at the evening time and wakeup at 7AM and not vice-versa

[Nita]

We work from around 3PM to 6PM everyday after school, 10AM to 5PM(usually) on Saturdays, and don't meet at all on Sundays so there's no excuse for any of us to miss any classes. D:

[ida_noeman]

We work:
Wednesday 3-8 after school
Friday 3-9 after school
Saturday 10-5
Sunday 1-6
I wouldn't miss school for FIRST, anyway, unless it was extremely important

[Zyik]

Block Classes and no free bits. It sucks. School doesnt understand the size of first so we can't even turn in homework late. They treat it as if it was just a small after school 3-4 program.....

They only just allowed the mentor who works at the school to take study hall off.

[vadyr]

im just addicted to first and classes are 2nd priority...first comes animation lol....yay for first

[Steve S.]

we work on our bot only 3 hours a day, every day except sat, sun. on sat we work from 7:30-2:00 so we dont miss classes and our principal is a ^$#&^%$$&*($@(*&&*&($&*$!$&*^ so we couldnt miss class anyways.....unless we go around her and get permission from the super because its a district supported activity in Greece, we probaly could if it comes down to it......

[Rohith Surampudi]

although we have one of the best records out of any team in our school, it is only now, 12ish years after the team has been up do they know more than those kids that build the robot every time Team RoboRaiders is mentioned. Even the teachers that are advisor's don't let us off of homework, or anything.

[Wolf103FM]

I work from 6:30am to 5pm mon-thu, get off, drive a quarter of a mile, and stay at the shop until everyone else leaves (usually 9 or 10), I'm off fridays and weekends so friday I'm there at 3 until whenever and saturday starting at 9am, and sometimes sunday if we are working sunday (only day I missed was this past sunday when i woke up feeling like total crap and saw that it was snowing)

[MrBamboo]

attend my classes? yes

do all my homework? yea right

[windup zeppelin]

hman, my grades dropped a few points in each class , but my art class was wrecked( an entire letter grade down!!).

[alphastryk]

well...our school doesn't give us any breaks...so we have to plan our classes for the spring semester to deal with it...

we do, however, get competitions as field trip/excused absences