what kinda hours do you guys pull?
Our team last year stayed till all all hours between 2 - 7 AM and slept over for several days straight for the 2001 season.
This year, new advisor and new rules… so we are outta luck.
another question:
do you feel being at Robotics late helps your team? or do you feel that it is better to leave at 9 or so and come back in the morning?
personally, I like to get going on something and stay till it’s done. i find stopping and coming back kinda messes up my train of thought, causing me to spend an hour or so trying to figure out what i was doing Plus, it’s kinda nice to spend that much time with your team. it gives it that kind of family atnosphere.
Last year we went till about 11-12 oclock, then just called it quits and came back in the morning. This year, we have been meeting about 4 times a week for about 6-7 hours each time. We get most of our work done late at night when there are fewer distractions, but I think it helps to come back in the morning again so that you are fresh and maybe you can approach a problem differently. I also think its good to get out of the shop for a while and visit the real world to remember what things are like out there. But staying late does create a cool environment. Unfortunately, people start losing focus after a while and at that point we all realize that we have homework to do…
Jeez. I just realized how little my rookie team works.
We usually work weekdays, 15.45-18.30 or so. Most people leave before 18.00, though. Not much weekend work, but I get the feeling next weekend will be crunch time.
the last weekend is always crunch time. thats why we decided this year to finish a week early, and take the really late nights this weekend, and last weekend, but we have yet to see anytime past 10pm because our advisor always makes us leave early. i can’t remember any time he let us get food twice in one day, his favorite line is “you can go to food, but we won’t be here when you get back”
Now we only stay to about 8-10 but the day or two before shipoff we normally pull an all nighter with a bunch of trips to dunkin donuts :o (we would go to krispy kreme but it is over an hour drive:mad: )
I encourage students and mentors to devote as much time as possible on the team and the robot.
Mentors who are really involved can expect at least 30 hours a week on the project at a bare minimum.
Students probably spend half that much time in the actual assembly area, but do devote more time to chairmans, animation, and side projects where time is budgeted individually.
We meet four times a week as a group.
The robot team meets everyday from about 2pm to midnight, and Saturday from noon till work stops being productive.
All these times are loose…most meetings are scheduled but run well past their scheduled times. Most students can’t stay too late especially during the week. They understand that we work overnight and often finish projects that they start…but this just leaves them more to do the next day!
We’re not stressed at all this year because we follow schedule and get things done on time… very nice compared to previous years.
Weekdays are from 5:30 to 9:00 PM and weekends are from 9:00 AM to 5:00 or 6:00 PM… of course, if things need to be done, we’ll be up all night regardless of school in our head engineer’s machine shop.
We’re a rookie team, and we just started in January ( that is, we didn’t have any pre-season meetings ). Near the beginning we’d leave around 1700-1800ish, but these days we tend to meet ( weekdays )1500 to whenever we finish. Tends to be 2000, but we actually stayed to midnight the other week A bit of advice? If you carpool to a seperate site, make sure you don’t leave your car someplace that gets locked up ( like a school campus ) ] We also meet on Saturdays, from maybe 9 or 10 AM until whenever. We have a tendacy to work in shifts, and a few of us keep blankets and pillows in our cars, and just catnap when needed.
Lots of food runs… there’s a Walmart across the street from us, so we’re good.
our team does Thursday and saturday meetings, this week we also have a sunday meeting. Thursday is 3 - 4:45, but about 5 of us usually stay till 5:30, 6ish. Saturdays is usually about 8-12:30. These rules no longer apply in the last weeks however
you guys stay REAL LATE!!!
we’ve been staying monday-friday from 2:15 until 5… and we were working last saturday from 8-12 and this saturday from 8-2:15ish… somehow we’re getting our bot done, too… amazing.
*Originally posted by Specialagentjim *
**our team does Thursday and saturday meetings, this week we also have a sunday meeting. Thursday is 3 - 4:45, but about 5 of us usually stay till 5:30, 6ish. Saturdays is usually about 8-12:30. These rules no longer apply in the last weeks however **
You can’t be serious!?!?!?!?
How can you get away with three meetings a week for 2 hours and 30 minutes? How does your bot get done?
Our meetings this year have been:
M + Th: 2:30 - 6:30
Hopefully we’ll be able to work more this next week, but our school is very uptight about letting us in over the weekends when nobody else is there.
Last year, my personal record was 36 hours straight (1pm Friday afternoon until 1am Sunday morning). I had also been at school since 7:15am Friday and didn’t finally get to sleep until around 1:30 Sunday morning, which makes for a total of around 43 hours without sleep, most of it with power tools and electricity… :rolleyes:
I’d have to say we stay a reasonable amount of time working on the robot. The Hours are usually Mon- Thurs 2:05 - 7:30ish maybe later but not by more than an hour, Fri 2:05-till about 5:30. and Saturday 8:30 am Till 3 or 4 pm but now the hours have been substancially longer as the Shipping date approaches. But never the less I enjoy working in the metal shop and on the robot and working with the people I do. It really helps having advisors that relate to the students much like ours and also the sense of caring from everybody including advisors. We’ve got eachotha’s backs yah heard?
) ] We also meet on Saturdays, from maybe 9 or 10 AM until whenever. We have a tendacy to work in shifts, and a few of us keep blankets and pillows in our cars, and just catnap when needed.
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