Meeting Length

[HPA_Robotics_13]

Originally Posted by drewcampbell

I was just wondering, how long do other teams usually meet - and on what days? Also, where do you usually meet? Do you have a special room or place at your school?? Or your own building?

ALSO - how many do you have on your team?

Our team, DART 1284, meets Mon - Friday from 3:00 to 6:00, except on Wed. and Fri. we meet from 3:00 to 5:00.

Thanks for the feedback

HPA Robotics, at this point in the build season, meets Monday-Friday: 6:30-9:00 PM. Weekends are when we get most of our work done. Today, Saturday, our shop was open from 9 AM until 11 PM, and we pretty much had mentors around the whole time. We broke for lunch and went to town for chinese food. Tomorrow, Sunday, we're going to open shop at 10 AM and we'll probably call it a day sometime in early evening. The goal for tomorrow's meeting is to finish constructing our manipulator prototype, and successfully cap our center goal with a tetra manually from the joysticks.

This is HPA Robotics 4th year. The first year (I was a freshman) the weekend before the ship date on Tuesday the 4 or 5 other hardcore team members and I were at school working on our FIRST Robotics project from sometime Saturday morning until Monday morning. We DIDN'T go home. I slept through my first 2 classes on Monday.

We meet in a small building, about 20 x 40 feet, that is named the Engineering Center. It's nestled in behind our school's monolithic indoor tennis center and gym/pool complex. It was constructed in 1991, the year before our high school sent a team to the Tour de Sol in Europe. The same mentor that went to Europe with that group is our current lead mentor.

Our team has a total of less than 20 students. This year at least half our team is made up of freshman or new sophomores. They are all very enthusiastic, and by their junior year HPA Robotics will be very strong. But right now, myself and the 4 other veterans have a huge job to do: building this year's robot while showing the rookies how it's done.

[mtaman02]

The schools I help / work with


One School - Takes about 1 hr or more depending on what needs to be covered / If there is any actual work going on Afterwards.

The Other School - Thats TBD but I'm pretty sure its more then an hour since there in class the entire day.

As far as students at the meetings it varies, and is at least a dozen or more for both schools

Meetings are held on multiple days and on weekends if necessary

[AIBob]

in the beginning of the year:
M-Th 6:00PM to 10:00PM
Fri: 6:00PM to 10:30PM
Sat: 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun: no robotics
later in the yr:
it just goes a few hours later.

[drewcampbell]

Thanks for the feedback guys....

[VideoMan053]

Our team usually meets from 6-9 on weekdays and 12-5 on Saturdays and 2-5 on Sundays!

[MikeJ675]

We had a meeting that lasted from friday at noon until saturday at 8am recently. Many are still recovering.

[Kyle Love]

Monday-Thursday 230-6*
Saturday 9-4*
Sunday 1-5*

*We don't leave at that time every night, it just depends how much is left to be done.

Mon- Thur 6-9
Sat 10-4
Sun 1-4

Im sure those hours will increase in the next few weeks

[killerofkiller]

hmmm...
Monday - Thursday 6:30-8:30
Sat - 10-4
sundays no meeting unless needed
night before shipping- 630pm- 720AM (aka school starting)

we meet in "the pit" we have an old ROTC bulding in the back of the school by the baseball fields. it's real long and real narrow. the back section is divided into a musty software room and parts/old robots and field parts.sid
it's the kind of building that no one knows about. people see it at night and only see cars parked outside, lights comming out of the doors and the sound of machines rumbelling