School Closings

[Kat Kononov]

My school is residential, and it makes everyone go home every 6 weeks for an extended weekend. Well one of these weekends happens to fall on Feb 14 through Feb 18 (the last 4 days!!!). Last year we moved all of our stuff to a teammate's garage where several space heaters weren't able to bring the temperature above 40 degrees. We finished the robot somehow though. This year we are moving to my basement, which is at least insulated so it should be much better.

[usbcd36]

Last weekend, we were locked out of the school because of a bomb threat. Luckily, we'd left almost all of our stuff at one of our sponsor's places. This weekend, we weren't so lucky. Our advisor insisted that we not take too much stuff there, so we didn't. We have the robot in his van, but no OI, programming cables, or kit parts not already on the 'bot. Then they closed school today, preventing us from working.

[FTCmisfit]

On team 11 we do hear they story as 11mort11 said at least 100 times a week

-Misfit

[artdutra04]

Snow days and school closings just mean bonus hours to work on the robot instead of going to class.

If you do get them, enjoy the extra work time. If for some reason you can't get into the shop to work on the robot, then pick up a sled, a ton of snowballs, and some friends and go have fun.

Because in only a few more years, having college classes / work canceled for snow will be a very rare event.

[wendymom]

One of the advantages of being a 4-H team is that we don't have to worry about school schedules. We build at the sheriffs barn. Besides...it never snows here......now if build was during hurricane season it might be a bit different.

[AJ R]

School closings and snow days are great for our team. We don't meet at the school so we can work all day.

[gurellia53]

Originally Posted by AJ R

School closings and snow days are great for our team.

Same here. If there's a snow day (in Peoria, that means anywhere above 3" of snow overnight) we try to call the team and go work on the robot. Most of us don't go to the school where our shop is so the robotics team is more of an out of school activity than a club. This lets us be somewhat independent of school schedules and such.

Tomorrow is Lincoln's birthday and only 4 of us are in a school district that has it off. We're planning to be in the shop most of tomorrow.

[Beth Sweet]

Our rule for being at the school when the school is closed: don't go past this doorway, or you'll set off the alarm and the police will come and take us alllll to jail (which will make it so the robot doesn't get done)

[Cactus_Robotics]

This is the reason I love living in Arizona...
Todays Weather:
Mostly Sunny, High 71
Low 59

Current Conditions: Sunny 70 degrees

[usbcd36]

Today's weather in Solon, OH:

Sunny
High: 15°F
Low: 9°F
Current: 10°F

The school closing announcements were made last night because it was too cold for salt to work. Because of this, there was no way to retrieve supplies to work on the robot.

[Laxphan1525]

We have had 3 snows days but we have one other problem our fearless mentor takes up the sole role of plowing his communities roads and driveways so we are unable to during the snow storm generally. However we did arrange for another mentor to come in once but typically we have to close down a lot this year because of the biggest snow season in three decades in chicago.

[team877]

If you get out of school just because of -5 degree and 14" of snow...you are lucky....if you live where I am from we just had a week of -50 degrees with wind chill and still going to school.

[Scott Carpman]

I've only had one snowday in the past 5 years...we don't get them. As anti-politically correct as this may sound, the NYC school system exists to be daycare for the poor, not to educate youth. Any knowledge gained is a side effect. As such, schools must be open in all weather, so the kids can get breakfast and lunch. It's a sad state of affairs, but it unfortunatley won;t change anytime soon.

Oh, and the weather right now outside my window: 18F degrees, 35 mph gusts.

[Jeff Waegelin]

Originally Posted by Beth Sweet

Our rule for being at the school when the school is closed: don't go past this doorway, or you'll set off the alarm and the police will come and take us alllll to jail (which will make it so the robot doesn't get done)

Back when I was in high school, we actually had the police come because we set off an alarm! Our teacher had a key and the alarm code for the school, so he could let us in on weekends and holidays, and one Saturday, we were working in our shop, and the assistant principal came in to use the weight room. When he left, he armed the alarm for the whole school, instead of just the gym area. So, of course, since we were still in the building, we immediately set off the motion detectors for the alarm. The police showed up a half hour later, with guns drawn They were very surprised to see a bunch of students working in the auto shop, to say the least. They didn't give us too much trouble for it, though I think the assistant principal got a phone call...

[Sunshine]

3 snow days during build season and the policy means no school with no exceptions ..... period. No one may come in for safety reasons. No sports teams, no robotics teams, students may not enter the school.