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Originally Posted by wilsonmw04
Wow, I see a whole lot of excuses here. It's a two minute video. Most everyone has a video camera in their pocket right now. There are various free video editing software suites for educational use. Even if you don't meet during the summer, there were 3 months from Sept to now to get something together.
If it wasn't a priority, that's fine, but don't blame FIRST or Dean if you didn't get your homework done. Blame yourself.
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Personally, I don't want to submit something that's half-heartedly done. If I do something, it should have quite a bit of effort in it. So a two minute video taken with a phone with impromptu planning is not exactly something I would call "done with effort."
What happens is you have about 20 or so "core" students who do a majority of the items the team does (not true for all teams, but several that I know of this usually happens). Once the school-year starts, we get back into the robotics mood, and then we worry about things like website, recruiting members, several PR events, among the students' other extra-curricular commitments.
Because there is an endless queue of things with immediate consequences, Dean's Homework I'm sure kept getting pushed back in that line repeatedly because there were no immediate benefits or consequences to completing it.
I don't think anyone was saying FIRST or Dean was to blame.