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Re: Scouting Using Scantrons

Yes, it was 1503. We didn't use "official" Scantron sheets -- we made our own, by adding boxes to the scouting sheet that the scouts in the stands would fill in. We had a consumer-grade auto-feed scanner set up in the pit (where there's guaranteed power) and a custom computer program that would read each sheet and populate the scouting database. No computers or power were needed in the stands.

I'm not sure what 1503 did this year, but last year when I was coaching I had an Android tablet that I would dump the data to before seeking out our alliance partners to strategize. The fact that the scanner/computer was located in the pit made this really convenient. Overall, the system was really effective.
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