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Re: Snow days are killing us
Your best bet when encountering any of these administrative roadblocks is to sit down and ask yourself: Does this rule protect my best interests... 90% of the time you will realize that it does not. My suggestion is to remove yourself from that situation and find a detour if you will. My favorite tatic is the Non-school sanctioned event. Back in the day my team was given an oppertunity to attend the championship however, we were unable to get any staff to chaperone us. The solution was to get all the parents of interested students together and have a meeting. Three parents volunteered to chaperone the trip to the states. Since there was of course no time to conduct background checks etc. We ran it as an out of school trip. All of the parents wrote letters of authorization in case any red tape were to pop up. This entirely removed any liability from the school and there was nothing left to stop us. The robot had already been shipped down so the worst they could have done was accuse us of "borrowing" the robot without authorization- of course they were thrilled we were able to go regardless of their restrictive policies. All in all it was a great trip and nobody got their panties in a knot.
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Mentor, Team 2013 Cybergnomes 2010 - 2014, 2016
Mentor, Team 3756 RamFerno 2011 - 2013
Mentor, Team 854 Iron Bears 2005-2007
Founding member, Team 854 Iron Bears 2000-2005
Mech.Eng.+Mgt University of Ontario 2009
B.Ed OCT Trent University 2015
Professional Education and Product Knowledge Consultant - Toyota Canada Inc.
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