Snow days

[Anthony4004]

For 4004, we will see how the road are in the afternoon. If the road are decint then we will have an extra long meeting for those who can make it. Mainly it depends on the student's decision.

[redneckrobot]

mine is not a school. and if rode's are that bad I can pick up the team on my sled. small town only 4 team members

[Riverdance]

My team is from Connecticut. We have this very unfortunate situation this evening involving the fact that all day today it's been over 50 degrees and raining steadily... and tomorrow the absolute high temperature is 15 degrees. The temperature drop and flash freezing starts tonight.

The snow days and mass cancellations of after-school activities have already cut out tonight's 6:30-9:00 meeting, and if we lose tomorrow's school day, which it's likely that we will, that's another one out the window.

Our team likes to treat snow days as "No school? Let's treat it like a Saturday!" (on Saturdays during build we meet from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm), but it's a little different when the roads are coated in ice.

[Kyle Love]

We have lost 5 days of school now due to snow. We had to go directly from the kickoff site in Indy to our homes (could not stick around to brainstorm or read rules) and could not meet again until today. It was very inconvenient, but we finally got to meet from 12-4 today and seem to have 5 days worth of brainstorming slammed into one day. We are cancelled tomorrow, but will be able to have an open shop for kids to come in and work on designs and CAD. We will find a way to get stuff done, one way or another, the snow days just make things more interesting .

[gxlden_queen]

i know we are trying to increase are working days. last week we had three days of snow and missed all three because robotics is a school activity,and guess what we are about to have a snow storm

[SarahBeth]

Originally Posted by fox46

Our title sponsor who supplies us with our build area, equipment and much of our materials is a Snowmobile and Powersports Repair shop www.jtsnowmobile.com. Getting around in the snow is never an issue. A snow day for us means the team can build all day at the shop! Many of the kids have their own sleds (kids as young as 12 yrs old can get an operator's permit) that they ride to school every day which makes finding rides that much easier.

Go ahead nature - do your worst!

LOL, you win.

We lost 2 days this year due to a blizzard we got a couple of weeks ago - lost all day Friday and all day Saturday - if school is closed then we can't have robotics at night (Even if the roads are ok) and if it's bad weather on the weekend, its our call if we want to have it. However, with Nemo (Also known as the Blizzard of 2013) the whole state was shut down with a driving ban so getting to the school was not an option, LOL.

[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by Squillo

What is this "snow" you refer to?

Never been to the big island, Cynthia? Mauna Kea is up there in the snow-zone on top of the world's tallest mountain.

[MooreteP]

Many teams in Southern New England lost four days to winter storm "Nemo".

This was in the next to last weekend before Bag and Tag, which is typically the most productive. Some teams build space is based in schools, which were shut down due to +2 feet of snow. Friday through Monday.

At the Suffield Shakedown, almost half of the teams did not even show up, including the always competent Aces High, who sponsor the event.

While we have had winter storms affect our build seasons in the past, this was one of the worst.

[electroken]

Originally Posted by MooreteP

While we have had winter storms affect our build seasons in the past, this was one of the worst.

Exactly right, and the reason why the Gaelhawks were no-shows at Suffield.

[2544HCRC]

We only ended up with 1 snow day. We don't meet every day and I can honestly say that after doing build season differently, less is more. Having a couple of days off a week didn't change the amount of work that was done in total. It did change the amount of youtube watching and just sitting around chatting by the team. People came in and worked. I was very pleased. It also allowed for orders for parts to be placed and time for those parts to arrive. We spent almost every day working the last week, but doesn't everyone? A snow day then would have hurt.

[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by CLandrum3081

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Maybe someday, one of the geniuses in FIRST will invent a weather machine so that it's always 65 degrees and mostly sunny with a cool breeze whenever anything having to do with robotics is going on.

Make that "the geniuses from FIRST". It could be coming. Next year's FLL challenge is titled "Nature's Fury." We may change global warming to global control any decade now.

[jdunston94]

We were fortunate to only have 2 snow days and enough parents and more experienced student drivers with big cars(benifits of Michigan is snow really doesn't bother a lot of people. I actually enjoy driving on and in it) but we made those optional meetings. Seemed to work well enough no accidents this year to my knowledge in transit to and from build space!

[jds2001]

We lost some days due to weather as well. Add to that not being able to work late most of the time (working past 8PM is an almost impossibility in our school - security has to be around if the building is occupied, and we share space with 3 other schools, so the principal of our school really has no control over what happens in the building), and you have a really compressed build season.

Fortunately our team captain graduated early, so during most of build season he was able to come all day and work on stuff. Sort of a double-edged sword though - he's the only one that knows a lot of stuff (including the mentors - look at my rookie year ), so I'm really scared for what happens to the program next year. He's said he'll come back when he can, but it's the "when he can" part that scares me

[ctccromer]

Y'all are lucky. I think I can count on one hand how many times its been below 40 this year in Louisiana. Only snow day I've ever had was in 8th grade, for half an inch of snow! Needless to say, a snowball fight was had.

EDIT: At the same time though, we had an entire week off last week for Mardi Gras, and that did mess with out schedule some.

[BBray_T1296]

Originally Posted by ctccromer

Y'all are lucky. I think I can count on one hand how many times its been below 40 this year in Louisiana. Only snow day I've ever had was in 8th grade, for half an inch of snow! Needless to say, a snowball fight was had.

EDIT: At the same time though, we had an entire week off last week for Mardi Gras, and that did mess with out schedule some.

I can count to 31 (32 including zero) on one hand (1023 on 2 hands!)
Thank you binary