Meeting Length

[Goobergunch]

Our build season meetings are at CTDI (the company warehouse where we build our `bot) on weekdays after school from about 3:30 to 5:30 (sometimes longer) and on Saturdays for about three hours (11 AM - 2 PM, although it'll probably get longer as the season progresses).

[Charly]

To actually work on the robot we get very limited time in comparison to other teams.

Wednesdays 3:30 - 7:30 PM
Fridays 3:30 - 7:30 PM

Since we work at a college (NJIT), on the days that we don't meet I normally take the eletronics with me back to our school and work on them there. Otherwise we get very little time in and this storm isn't helping in the least.

[rocknthehawk]

team 549 meets tuesday and thursday 6-9ish and saturday 8-3ish. the last couple weeks we meet everyday after school until whenever we feel like leaving (usually something like 10ish).

we meet in our school's machine shop (our advisor is the teacher).

we have close to thirty kids on the team this year i think.

[KORN_lover_2007]

Team 1108 meets on weekdays from 5:30 to 9:30. At 9:30 we have to call our parents if we want to stay later and they have to tell a mentor that we can. On Saturday we meet from 9:00 to 5:00, but some people will stay until late into the night. On Sundays we meet from 1:00 to 5:00, although some people will get there earlier and stay there later.

[Charley]

Our team meets:

MTTF: 3-5/ 5:30
Weds: 2- 5/5:30
Sat: 1-4.

Those are when we say the meetings end, but usually we stay later. This week seemed to be the beginning of extra hours... Last year we had some late (midnight, 1, 2 am) nights which were productive, but driving home was never too fun!.

[AJL930]

our schedule jumps around quite abit but usually we meet 3 or 4 weekdays from 5:30 to 8:30 and then on saturdays from 8:00am to 4:00pm. During the last week or two of the season if we are behind, then we met more days during the week.

[cnield]

Our team (1318) is currently meeting from 2:30-6PM on weekdays (sometimes longer). Saturday we meet 1PM-5PM.

[elknise]

Originally Posted by cnield

Our team (1318) is currently meeting from 2:30-6PM on weekdays (sometimes longer). Saturday we meet 1PM-5PM.

To answer the second question, we have about 10 dedicated students and 6 mentors that come often. At some meetings during the week, we get around 15 or 16 students.

[xKLzKobE08x]

team 696 meets:
wednesday : 3 pm - 8 pm
saturday : 8:30 am - 5 pm
sunday : 1 pm - 5 pm

[Sam Lipscomb]

We meet 6:30Pm-10:00PM on weekdays for build sessions, and 9:00AM-10:00PM on weekends. On Tuesdays, we have official meetings from 7:30PM-8:30PM, where we discuss progress and future events.

Sometimes we stay until around 11:00PM or even midnight, but that's rare now...it'll happen more once we get closer to the end of the six weeks.

[akshar]

team 1568 , my team, try to meet from 3-5,6 M-F on sats we go from 10-6 the last 2 days there was a huge snowstorm so we lost 2 days of buiold time we cant meet on sundays b/c the building we werk at is cloased

[gosling2003]

We meet Monday and thurs from 3 till 5 or 6, tuesday and friday from 3-9, we only have about 10 people on our team.

[DoomdayX]

WHRHS Meets:

Mon-Thurs: 2:30-6pm
Friday: 2:30-9pm
Saturday: 10am-6/9pm

We at least have our own metal shop... (there are no metal shop classes anymore though, and the equipment is 40+ years old )

We have about 14 members, with an average of 8 or so present at any one time, with around 5 that are consistently present every day.

[TLonghorns0593]

On weekdays we meet 5 till 9 or later depending on how much work is getting done. On Saturdays we meet 9 am till 5 or 6 pm.

[TimCraig]

This is our third year. Our first year we used the auto shop to construct our robot. That summer school discontinued auto shop and remodelled the space into a dance studio. However, we were lucky enough to get a small dedicated meeting space out of the deal. Basically, we have one of the service bay areas. We also got an old lathe, a drill press, grinder, stationary belt sander, old manual Bridgeport mill, a smaller Jet mill and drill, and all the hand tools we could squirrel away. It's pretty crowded in there with two active robots, old #1 hanging on the wall, and the current robot under construction. The goal doesn't help much either.

We probably have 20 members who at least show now and then with maybe 10 hard core. Right now for adults there's my wife and I as colead coaches and one parent plus the faculty advisor. The adults have been vetted by the school district so we can meet with the kids without the faculty advisor. The 3 of us also have keys to the room.

Our meeting schedule for the build is:
MTTF 3 pm - 6.
W 2 pm - 6 pm
S 10 am - 5 pm
S 1 pm - 4 pm.

After two years of having no time left to test and practice, we decided to go to the 7 day a week schedule from the start. Of course, my hours go long beyond these with ordering parts and doing detailed design work. And the option to go into real crunch mode exists if it looks like we need it to finish. I've stated that I'm NOT going to be building a robot in the pits.

We always get zapped kind of hard during the 2nd week of build as that's semester end and finals so we give the kids time off. We try to finalize the conceptual design before the kids disappear so I can do some detailed design, order parts, make parts, etc.