Students, Time put into start of build - end of season?

[rkbot]

Its nearly impossible to get a >90% average with that many hours, my marks dropped nearly 10% last year, i tried to limit myself this year but still have done over 500. There are only 2 students on our team with over 500 hours ( clocked by me not the team sign in sheet). This includes me, the next highest amount is 180 (this is of the team sign in sheet as i only accounted for the two of us but team sign in is fairly accurate). Only a few people on our team got over 100 hours and even fewer put there time to good use. It ridiculous how one of your teams has had all of there member put in at least 180 hours.

Also my recording started right when the game was released, ide estimate another 40 hours in little pre-season things.

Connerd, what was your reason for keeping track, mine was in order to actually be able see quantitatively the amount of time put in by the captain and I compared to everyone else.

[Connerd]

Originally Posted by Connerd

I spent ~700 hours working on our robot.

Hahaha, just kidding.
Just reviewed my hour list, and realized that I included transit times inside that 700 hours (I live over 40 miles from my school, and take public trains and busses to and from school, it takes a loooooong time). So, that lowers it ~250 hours. Sorry for not noticing it.

[adammiller3122]

Originally Posted by rlowe61

How do you clock in/out? If PC what software? Trying to find a better way to track student hours.

Thanks

roger

We use a free system called TimeTrex. It is pretty neat. It is meant for workforce management, but it works GREAT! We keep our safety test scores, our team information, our safety violations and many other things in that system as well as our time. It's reporting functionality is awesome. You can create a free online hosted edition here. If you don't need to access it online, but you would be fine with having it on one computer, then use this edition. You can still access this on computers within your network.

PM me if you want more details. I would love to help you guys out.

[Pat Fairbank]

We have a custom web app to track the time that students spend in the lab. Here's a screenshot showing the top few contributors.

[DampRobot]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

We have a custom web app to track the time that students spend in the lab. Here's a screenshot showing the top few contributors.

Wait, the top one is less than 300? I'd assume these are students, not mentors...

[VioletElizabeth]

Originally Posted by rlowe61

How do you clock in/out? If PC what software? Trying to find a better way to track student hours.

Thanks

roger

We actually use a beepy thing (technical term ) and we made barcodes with a label maker, and beep the bar codes, which stores a timestamp on the beepy thing, and one of our parent-mentors does something with the data and excel to make our hours spreadsheet. So I'm not sure that's quite what you're looking for, but I hope it helps.

[Jacob Bendicksen]

We have a fingerprint scanner to clock in and out for emergencies and hour tracking. I'm at about 250 right not, not including competition time and the time I spent working on Chairman's at home (probably putting me way above 300, but I'm not sure exactly).

[JustPlyZ]

174 hours during build season. (Class time, lunch time, after school, saturdays)
80 hours during pre season. (class, after school)

[Sparkyshires]

probably around 300 hours during build season, another 250 after season, and at least 100 pre season on programming exercises that our mentor had us do so that we had good programming techniques (good variable names, descriptive comments, strong logic, etc.,) and still logging hours! Gotta make sure the code is perfect for St. Loo-wey.

[blaze8902]

My school would be upset if they knew. On paper, everyone was there from 5 to 9 every day, and from 10 to 10 on Saturdays. Around 40 students makes that about 8,000. I believe that accounts for about 70%. So Definitely at least 10,000 Man hours. Highest individuals...about 498. There were about 3 students like that. (None of our grades are great...) I think all of those calculations are neglecting Sundays.

P.S. All of these are just build season hours.