How do you manage homework and robotics?

[june_2008]

Our team does homework at the robotics building after school before our mentors arrive. It seems to be a pretty effective system.

[Schneidie]

Originally Posted by legolas52

I am a straght A student, and I'm joining robotics. We are going to be at robotics from after school to about 10:00. How do you guys manage robotics with other E.Cs, and homework.

Well, it's very hard, and I have almost no life outside of Robot, which really brings you close to your team. I generally work on my homework, eat, sleep (minimal), and sometimes eat. The only exception is Sunday.

[Marcel]

Lets see, I go to school around 6:40AM'ish, get out at 2:30PM and than I go to the shop/lab or whatever you'd like to call it and than I work untill about 5:00 even though you can stay later if you want. And than I get home at about 5:20PM, do homework, eat, shower, and than sleep. Rinse and repeat

Oh and I have "RamTech" (we call it RamTech when we go work on the robot, since our team name is RamTech) Monday-Saturday. Even when theres no school or if we have an early release.

[LightWaves1636]

while I program on my laptop, I'm also working on essays, I do homework during class when given and during lunches, in the morning, and gosh I guess I don't take an actual break do I? I'm not even in honor classes.

[Emily234]

Our robotics team doesn't start working until 5:30, so I do most of my homework when I get home after school. As a member of team 234 I am required to keep good grades and stay in touch with my teachers about homework and get help if needed. If someone needs help with homework we can bring it to robotics and get help there from other students. I also seem to get better grades during robotics season because I am always thinking.

[I.U.man_22]

robotics dosent start until five-thirty so i have time to go home and do my hw before robotics. so its not a big deal at all and if we ever need help theres a bunch of smart people that can help us so hw isnt really an issue at all. cyber blue 234

[Morgan Gillespie]

I do something called homeroom work, if it cant be done in homeroom I do it during any free time, and carry my backpack everywhere.
Every assignment I get I give it a rating, 1 - 5 minutes or less ll the way up to 5 - atleast an hour. Then I schedule accordingly. 1-2 are done in hr, while 3-4 done in study hall/during classes, 5 done at home. Sometimes waking up a 5 am and doing my homework then is the only solution. Yet I keep my straight A's and a 99 on Science midterm!

[ballasingh09]

It does take some dedicated effort to do homework and robotics, but robotics isn't till 5:30 and so I have about 2 hours, before, to do homework and i have some time after robotics. So I think theres still reasonable time. cyber blue 234

[ida_noeman]

It's a breeze to get regular homework done even with FIRST, but that requires killing most free time. Big projects however, are near impossible. The last one was a presentation, and my teacher let me go last (because of FIRST), and I was barely done even a week+1/2 extra time. I've got a research paper coming up, but luckly most of the work can be done after the build season. If you are overloaded during the build season, don't be afraid to tell your teachers. They'll most likely be reasonable.

[ctshirk7]

im up till four usually finishing homework... tis hard on mee

[Murf the Smurf]

home work?
Extra Activities?
During First all of thees get pushed to the wayside
who needs good grades when you have a robot

[chinckley]

Our school day ends at 2:30 and we start up at 5 in the evening. That allows students to get some homework done. We are a Tech Center so by 2:30 the students have gone back to their home schools. They then come back at 5 pm. Also, I recommend they have books with them in case they get some down time. Soometimes they do not come if they have too much.
We are now on 7 days a week and a team of 12. Most nights we have 6 kids or so there. We also feed our kids each night. Sometimes parents bring food but most nights teachers/secretaries/maintenance and aides at our school bring meals. We use a signup schedule. Kids don't like to miss since we really feed them well.

Carolyn

[Nita]

I found out that I have the least amount of time for homework on weekends (with church commitments)! Everything I can get done during the weekdays are usually most of what I get done.

[234smidget]

we have our robotic meetings at 5:30 but one of our rules is homework first some of the team members will bring homework to robotics and work on it and get help with it the mentors don't mind but it is hard to get all homework done and robotics at the same time since robotics season has started i really use my study hall now compared to last semester

[mizscience]

Balancing robotics and homework/extracurriculars/other obligations can be diffiult. Even after almost 6 years of participating in FLL and FRC, it still gets annoying. Ways to help this is to have a robotics homework session right after school for about 30 minutes, no joking/robo talk/etc., where you all just do some of your homework. Also, doing it during lunch, easy classes, or before school helps too.