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Originally Posted by Cory
Seriously, diagram out how you expect FIRST to not have championships on the same weekend as VEX champs. ... Any earlier and build has to be less than 6 weeks. Any later and you're in AP testing. Both of those are untenable solutions.
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Interference between FIRST CMP and VEX Worlds is almost as crappy as any of the other options, and becoming crappier as more students become involved in both programs.
Backseat-driving the 2014 schedule, I come up with this:
- -2 weeks (Apr 9-12) Interferes with existing Week 7 events. Resolving this interference would require significant (a) investment in fields and (b) volunteer growth to compress the Regional and District event schedules to 6 weeks. Also requires eliminating the Feb 20-22 slack week so that Week 1 events would immediately follow after Bag & Tag day.
- -1 weeks (Apr 16-19) Interferes with Easter holiday (Apr 20).
- +0 weeks (Apr 23-26) Existing. Interferes with VEX Worlds.
- +1 weeks (Apr 30-May 3) Interferes with SAT testing (May 3-4) and in-class preparation for AP testing (begins Monday May 5)
- +4 weeks (May 21-24) Interferes with final exams, proms, early graduations, etc.
Yes, any of these options would present us with a challenge we'd have to overcome.