EXAMS

[T3_1565]

Originally Posted by Imprudent

All of the Canadian teams in Ontario are faced with this dilemma - and our exams are a week and a half, so we only get 4.5 weeks of build time, which makes it quite stressful, on top of the stress from the actual exams

Yup not going to lie there. It does manage to be a problem. But our teacher will be in the shop anytime he isn't supervizing an exam, so if we don't have one we can go in and get some work done!

[burkey_turkey]

it sounds like exams are a big problem for most teams. i wonder if first would want to consider pushing back kickoff 2 or 3 weeks or so to avoid conflict with exams. I think it would make build season restraints more consistent if everyone had a very similar number of hours to work on the robot.

[technoL]

Luckily we had our exams before Winter Break this year, so we now don't have to worry about the extra stress during build season. Last year though, it was during week 2 or 3 when we were all eager to get in the shop, and even though school ended earlier, we still had to go home to study for exams the next day.

How about we just have an exam exemption for all FIRST teams!

[Hiteak]

We have exams Tuesday-Friday this week, but we are still having build afterwords. I use build time as a stress reliever after school, especially after I had my AP Physics midterm earlier this week.

And then there is snow. During the past week we have had ice, snain (snow and rain), snow, snow and wind, and ice rain all occur while building. This is especially fun for going back and forth to our pod which holds all of our parts and what we have built so far. Yesterday we had to force the key into the lock in order to get it open and someone shoved to make it earlier to bring our robot cart in and out of our pod which now needs a welcome mat to keep the place dryer. Safety glasses are becoming more useful when going outside because it keeps the snow from going into your eyes when the wind is blowing and making it hard to see outside.

[Caseavong]

Our exams are This week also, Tues - Fir.
The week before us sophomores had it relle rough with like 3 inclass midterms and also 2 test too take on top of it all
I think that was the day my brain was truly in shock

Anywho this week is cake.....

[GMAdan]

My school has mid terms all this week, 2 per day. But we are still allowed to do robotics, they trust that we know how balance school and robotics.

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by burkey_turkey

i wonder if first would want to consider pushing back kickoff 2 or 3 weeks or so to avoid conflict with exams.

If FIRST changed the schedule to make kickoff later, after exams, it would push the competitions out into May and start interfering with AP exams. Unless you mean you want only a 4 or 3 week build period!