Forum: General Forum
02-11-2016, 10:05
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Replies: 72
Views: 6,899
Re: Phone Policy
Our students are supposed to be working when they have work to do. So if they are distracted (whether they are on a cell phone or some other form of distraction) someone will talk to them. Often it...
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Forum: Programming
31-10-2016, 21:35
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,032
Re: JAVA 101 help
When you evaluate door == "t" it is not checking to see if door has that value. It is checking to see if the bits are the same. In the case of a String object, that means "are they pointing at the...
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Forum: General Forum
24-10-2016, 21:21
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Replies: 69
Views: 6,380
Re: [FRC Blog] Stop Build Day Survey Results
I think 10 hours might be a bit much, but in principle adding some limited time each week with robot access is a good compromise. It would limit the workflow and not require the kind of time...
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Forum: Programming
24-10-2016, 13:35
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Replies: 13
Views: 948
Re: Suggestions for moving from Labview to Java
My first piece of advice is to take some simple working robot code (either sample code or from a team's public repository) and have your students examine it. Ask them to identify what and where for...
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Forum: General Forum
24-10-2016, 13:28
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Replies: 69
Views: 6,380
Re: [FRC Blog] Stop Build Day Survey Results
That would be us. For the last few years (either six or eight depending on how close a copy you want) we have built a practice robot that is a pretty close copy of the competition robot. Not always...
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Forum: General Forum
23-10-2016, 22:06
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Replies: 69
Views: 6,380
[FRC Blog] Stop Build Day Survey Results
We were talking about how rules were set, not how competition was divided up. In HS sports the rules are not set by schools at all. There is no voting. Like there is no voting here. A governing body...
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Forum: Programming
23-10-2016, 22:03
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Replies: 13
Views: 948
If you would like some suggestions, I can tell...
If you would like some suggestions, I can tell you some of our steps going from LabView to Java, and give you learning suggestions. Robocode is one of the first suggestions for kids new to Java...
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Forum: General Forum
23-10-2016, 20:39
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Replies: 69
Views: 6,380
Re: [FRC Blog] Stop Build Day Survey Results
Also, the "owners only" is the model for pro sports rules. It is not the model for high school sports. In HS sports there is generally a national federation that establishes the general "game rules"...
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Forum: General Forum
23-10-2016, 18:23
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Replies: 69
Views: 6,380
Re: [FRC Blog] Stop Build Day Survey Results
It is similar to the district model. It's different mostly because of scale. I think that most folks are right that there will probably never be FRC in every school, just as not every school has a...
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Forum: General Forum
22-10-2016, 10:54
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Replies: 69
Views: 6,380
Re: [FRC Blog] Stop Build Day Survey Results
My own feelings, expressed more than once here, is that I agree that there would be a higher percentage of "good" robots at competition if we got rid of stop build. There just doesn't seem to be any...
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Forum: General Forum
21-10-2016, 13:11
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Replies: 69
Views: 6,380
Re: [FRC Blog] Stop Build Day Survey Results
The wording on the survey was not great, and any detailed survey like this is obviously trying to do a more nuanced evaluation than simply "eliminate or don't eliminate." One thing that strikes me as...
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Forum: General Forum
18-10-2016, 20:33
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Replies: 54
Views: 4,206
Re: Eliminating "Start Build Day"
I think that it would be really difficult to secure competition venues in January or February. Most of these competitions take place in college or high school basketball venues. That are almost never...
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Forum: General Forum
18-10-2016, 20:32
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Replies: 54
Views: 4,206
Re: Eliminating "Start Build Day"
It is an interesting idea Sean. I actually thought about it while involved in several of the long "eliminate stop build day" discussions. I have a couple of thoughts. My first is that in my...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
06-10-2016, 12:54
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Replies: 30
Views: 2,465
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Forum: General Forum
06-10-2016, 12:24
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Replies: 288
Views: 6,647
Re: Registration 2017
I was waiting online and logged in at 12:00. Clicked to register at Miami Valley, crash. No confirmation email. Can't log back in.
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Forum: General Forum
06-10-2016, 12:15
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Replies: 288
Views: 6,647
Re: Registration 2017
They also sent out an email blast. But this is starting to go from comedy to farce. Another day of constantly checking and refreshing. And I don't see how they can even fairly restart now. If they...
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Forum: General Forum
06-10-2016, 12:03
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Replies: 288
Views: 6,647
Re: Registration 2017
I was frozen out before it said that I had registered. I will be so infuriated if this keeps up for another hour. And if we don't get our first choice, which was open and we should have gotten, it...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
06-10-2016, 12:01
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Replies: 30
Views: 2,465
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Forum: General Forum
23-09-2016, 08:37
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Replies: 288
Views: 6,647
Re: Registration 2017
I would like to see a system where each team submitted a first and a second choice or just a first choice. Try to give as many teams as possible their first choices, using a lottery or auction model,...
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Forum: General Forum
22-09-2016, 12:15
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Replies: 288
Views: 6,647
Re: Registration 2017
Agreed. A lottery would make much more sense, be less stressful and be more fair to teams who may not have a mentor free at noon EST.
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Forum: General Forum
22-09-2016, 11:58
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Replies: 288
Views: 6,647
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Forum: General Forum
22-09-2016, 11:54
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Replies: 80
Views: 5,693
Re: STEM vs. STEAM
Not sure I buy this distinction is warranted. It seems like you wrote a definition of art in order to get this conclusion but even so, how does this conclusion necessarily follow?
There are plenty...
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Forum: General Forum
21-09-2016, 09:32
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Replies: 80
Views: 5,693
Re: STEM vs. STEAM
As a teacher, the appeal to me of STEAM over STEM is twofold. The first is purely pragmatic. Aesthetics matters when you design and build things you want to sell. Teaching students that it is a...
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Forum: General Forum
20-09-2016, 13:27
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Replies: 86
Views: 8,887
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Forum: Regional Competitions
20-09-2016, 10:30
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Replies: 30
Views: 2,465
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OK, repeat after me "FIRST is not about the robot". - Foster [more] 
