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Unread 11-04-2012, 20:43
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Re: Scouting Using Scantrons

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Originally Posted by CalTran View Post
...but from what I've heard my teachers say, they're rather expensive per pack of scantrons, and I'd guess that since our school only has like 2 scantron machines, that machines aren't exactly a dime a dozen either.
We have the same problem at our school :/

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Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank View Post
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.
That's exactly what I'm looking for! Thank you! I will definitely look into finding a scanner.

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Originally Posted by nighterfighter View Post
We have a hard enough time getting our students to scout in the first place...
Haha, this is not a problem for us. We already have a scouting set-up, I'm just trying to improve it