do you guys attend classes regularly during the time between kickoff and shipment?

[paulcd2000]

apparently we're different, because we only work until like 8 at night, and so we can't miss class, because we don't have any at night

[Zyik]

Block Classes and no free bits. It sucks. School doesnt understand the size of first so we can't even turn in homework late. They treat it as if it was just a small after school 3-4 program.....

They only just allowed the mentor who works at the school to take study hall off.

[Steve S.]

we work on our bot only 3 hours a day, every day except sat, sun. on sat we work from 7:30-2:00 so we dont miss classes and our principal is a ^$#&^%$$&*($@(*&&*&($&*$!$&*^ so we couldnt miss class anyways.....unless we go around her and get permission from the super because its a district supported activity in Greece, we probaly could if it comes down to it......

[Wolf103FM]

I work from 6:30am to 5pm mon-thu, get off, drive a quarter of a mile, and stay at the shop until everyone else leaves (usually 9 or 10), I'm off fridays and weekends so friday I'm there at 3 until whenever and saturday starting at 9am, and sometimes sunday if we are working sunday (only day I missed was this past sunday when i woke up feeling like total crap and saw that it was snowing)

[MrBamboo]

attend my classes? yes

do all my homework? yea right

[windup zeppelin]

hman, my grades dropped a few points in each class , but my art class was wrecked( an entire letter grade down!!).

[alphastryk]

well...our school doesn't give us any breaks...so we have to plan our classes for the spring semester to deal with it...

we do, however, get competitions as field trip/excused absences

[orelinde]

Our students attend regular classes during the day and then work after school from 2 till 4 yes only 2 hours. up until this week now we work from 3:00 till about 8:30 with 2:00 -3:00 mandentory homework time. On the weekend however we will work till 10 or later on friday night and then saturday about 9 am till at least 10 pm saturday and Suday same hours. we also have no school monday so we will be working that day as well. we do hope to have some overnight work sessions and have great mentors that are willing to stay with us as long as we remain productive. we do however have food breaks where parents will make us eat icky healthy food (i am a parent)

We have a great group of tireless kids who are very dedicated to seeing this project through no matter what it takes.

[lallamavolador]

Wow! our school we can't miss and classes due to FIRST. Teachers bearly let you make up the days missed during the competition. Also, we need to start working after school (2:30). We don't work on the robot at all during school time, unless you have our mentor for a class and he lets you work on the robot during class.

[Inverted]

Lucky for me, two of my classes are taught by our mentor, so I'm always working on FIRST stuff instead of the actual class work. Other than that, I attend all my other classes, and still put in another 5-6 hours after school, and 10+ hours on weekends and days off.

How about on the final ship date? For the past 2 years (and it looks like tomorrow will be the same), I've skipped all of my classes to do all of the final - hah, yeah, right, final - to continue working on the bot. One year, the paint on the shipping crate was still wet when the FedEx truck came.

[gondorf]

i have to attend my classes. since my team is rookie my teachers dont understand first yet so im not allowed to skip

[greencactus3]

i work till 11 and stuff on the robot, drive 30 min back, and then finally start 3 AP classes + other classes worth of hw.
i have a full schedule i cant miss. missing them for the competitions is gonna be hard enough. im actually wondering if i really wanna take those tests.
oh and no excuses on the missing hw or lack of attention.... thank god we're almost there.,

[CinnamonHopes]

I wish! Our school won't even let us fund raise during school hours, let alone miss classes. They're even throwing a big stink about a competition we're heading to in a little over a week. They won't let us bring along our Juniors because HSPA's are the FOLLOWING week. Jerks.
We work on it when we can, but only have 2 mentors, one is a teacher, and one is a parent. So we have to work around their hours. This is my first season and I feel as though I've sold my soul to a Devil Driver nonetheless. It's over soon, right?

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by CinnamonHopes

It's over soon, right?

Heh heh. Yes, for a little while. Then there's the regional (fun!), be sure to meet other teams and make friends for next year.

Round about April you'll be ready for another season, and then realize it's not going to start until January....

I cannot believe some of you. Maybe I'm getting old, but it hurts to go more than 6 hours a day - start at 3:30 when the kids get out of school (my boss is very understanding), goes to at least 8 pm, sometimes (like now, crunch time) 10 pm. Kids do the same, AND go to all classes.

Every day I thank my deity for Caffeine.

Don

[Nuttyman54]

We all go to classes regularly and then meet afterschool and on weekends. The school is really cool about competitions (our pricipal and assistant principal are comming to the regional!) and the teachers love having FIRST students in class (We provide the answer to "when are we ever going to use this stuff?"). our teachers are very flexible about homework and tests, but we usually don't have any problems except on competition days.