Chief Delphi - Character Count?

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Azores

11-02-2012 17:23

Character Count?

Hi,

The captain of our awards sub-team is trying to determine if the essay's character count limit is with or without spaces.

Thanks.

ohmysydney

11-02-2012 17:27

Re: Character Count?

Quote:

Submission Format
Regional Chairman’s Award submissions will be submitted on line. The submission, excluding
the Executive Summary, will be limited to 10,000 characters, including spaces and punctuation,
and may include up to four (4) photographs totaling no more than 1.0Mb of memory.

Hope this helps! :)

Azores

11-02-2012 17:32

Re: Character Count?

Yea, she just found that actually. Thanks anyway though!

Waffles

11-02-2012 19:10

Re: Character Count?

Just be careful when you do submit! When you do it via the web, it may have a different count than what Microsoft word gives you. We always give a buffer of extra characters, between 50 and 100.

When you do submit, it will count up your characters. Be sure to check all the apostrophe's and other punctuational tools to make sure they didn't get all funky with: %; and that sorta thing, because sometimes they translate wrong when you copy and paste.

:)

Carol

13-02-2012 13:18

Re: Character Count?

Be creative with abbreviations: year = yr, and = &, two = 2, number = #, etc. You can save a lot of characters that way.

PayneTrain

15-02-2012 23:15

Re: Character Count?

Talked about a landscaping project in our paper. Went back and did a replace of "and" with "&"...

Make sure you check after you replace.

Karthik

15-02-2012 23:58

Re: Character Count?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carol (Post 1125726)

Be creative with abbreviations: year = yr, and = &, two = 2, number = #, etc. You can save a lot of characters that way.

Teams might want to be careful with their use of abbreviations, based on this Q&A:

Quote:

Q. when writing my chariman's submission can I use shortcuts such as: and=& you=U are=R or will it count as low level language/ the judges will see less of my submission?

FRC1943 2012-02-07

A. Hello Team: Thank you for writing. We discourage using shortcuts in the submission. Thank you, FRC Team Support

pfreivald

16-02-2012 10:30

Re: Character Count?

Learning how to write in as concise a manner as possible without shortcuts is an important skill!

lynca

16-02-2012 11:44

Re: Character Count?

Is anyone having errors with the FIRST TIMS database ?

I'm having trouble logging in to submit the Dean's list awards. Maybe the server is bogged

Quote:

Error Information

Error Message: Error in the "team" circuit fbx_Switch.inc file (or one of its components such as an included file or variable).
Error Code: -9948
Error: No tag, type or constant was defined under the name FIRST_user->people_consentrelease_obj.
Error Code: -10010

RogerR

16-02-2012 11:47

Re: Character Count?

Quote:

Originally Posted by lynca (Post 1128034)

Is anyone having errors with the FIRST TIMS database ?

I'm having trouble logging in to submit the Dean's list awards. Maybe the server is bogged

My chairman's student had the same problem, and I'm getting that error when I try to use TIMS.

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