REEFSCAPE By The Numbers Part 3

This is the third blog post in a series looking at season data from REEFSCAPE^SM presented by Haas. Catch up on Part 1 and Part 2!

One question I often receive from prospective and new mentors is around how often and for how long their team is meeting compared to other teams. We ask a series of questions about this topic to mentors each season as part of the end of season survey. Table 1 shows the average and median response for each of these questions. FIRST^® staff members use this information when creating Team Management resources for each season.

Table 1: Average and Median Time Spent

*A large portion of responses said something like “we meet every week from Kickoff to Championship”. To help create an average and median, I set those responses to 16. The most common response was 12 weeks.

As with all survey data, there are a few caveats. First, this is all self-reported. Second, the data represents, at best, around 12% of teams. Table 2 shows how mentors responded to questions about a few team demographics that I think help contextualize the results. While the survey results aren’t perfect, I think they give a good baseline for understanding what many teams are doing.

Table 2: Survey Responses Compared to Team Demographics