[gblake]

Originally Posted by team F.T.C 4240

We put most everything in the notebook, like community service, tours, events (like helping with local FLL events), ect. The main things we put in is our first drawings, prototypes, and how we got to our finished product, this year we will have a picture book of our prototypes instead of bringing one or two of them into judging. Another thing is to put page markers/tabs into the engineering notebook to mark the more important pages/the pages you want the judges to see most. Hope that helped, good luck teams.
~4240 Techno Clovers

Here is a thought - A notebook that is full of so much non-technical material that the applied physics, strategy analysis, software design, and other engineering topics get lost in the clutter; might be at a disadvantage during the judging process.

Always go back to the criteria the judges are asked to use to evaluate the submission; satisfy them well; and then trust the judges to stick to using those criteria.

If a team has a fundraising car wash (or whatever), that is an excellent source for things to tell judges aloud, or through other means (such as a second notebook/diary); but I don't see a reason for it to appear in an "engineering" notebook. There is a reason the engineering notebooks aren't called "Team Diaries".

Blake