How much time do you spend on FIRST?

[russell]

This is something that has been interesting me. How much time do you spend on your robot (or animation, website, whatever)? I noticed that some teams seem to only meet a few days a week, whereas others seem to meet every day. So my question could actually be broken down into
a. How often and for how long does your team meet?
b. How much time do you spend outside of actual meetings working on material related to your robot?

I know that my team met every single day from the day of the kickoff to ship date. On school days we met from 2 until six or six thirty (and later near the end of the season) and on weekends and holidays (and inservice days and such) we met from 10 or 12 until 6 or seven (though it was more like 11 the last few days). I went to every meeting, though I had to leave early one day but altogether I totaled more than 220 hours in our shop. But then again we only had six people and only three of us really worked, and of those only two of us had done FIRST last year. So I got stuck designing and building the superstructure of our bot, the arm of our bot, and doing everything related to the camera and programming of our bot. Did we just not make very efficient use of our time (Actually I know we didnt), or do other teams spend this much time working also?