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

[Nimmy]

I suppose if someone cuts everything for you that's correct
but we do not have those rescources, nor do we feel we should use outside help
infact it's a bit of a matter of pride not to use professional workshops\factories to assemble our pieces, the only thing we did want to get by a plant is that we wanted to make part of our robot out of composite materials (carbona fiber+kevlar sort of material) that are only assembable in a special high-degree oven, though I guess it would cut down on a lot of our work

[irishninja]

Yes. Yes, we do. Our school doesn't even recognize us as a team, they think of us as a club. They give us no money. Most kids don't even know we exist. We are the third biggest club in the school, with a total population of around 3200. Our teachers wouldn't except, I'm working on my robot, as an excuse to miss hw much less school. And i'm a second term Junior, so i have tons of work.

[Master Dictator]

Well I go to high school half the day then the other half at tech. So from 12pm -10 pm I work on FIRST, everyday.

[nkauj_ntxoo16]

Our school allows us to work on the FIRST during class hours, depending on the teachers. It just depends on the person on whether or not that person would choose to do the work in class before heading to the project or to do it for homework. The only hard part is having to miss out on the class lecture and other detail information.

[KillerCows456]

our team captain had to drop his AP physics class because he stop showing up. a lot of the teachers in my school will let us out of class to work on robotics. On a serious day of working none of the seniors go to class with or without permission from teachers.

[downhillpat241]

with me it's kind of like this:

"so then, I'm workin on the robot and my teacher comes up and he's like hey kid I thought I told you to...YA WHATEVER!!!"

not really but kinda that's how it goes.

[LindseySAhn]

Skipping classes.... Bad, bad...