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Originally Posted by wilsonmw04
I don't know. It seems that way: there was no reward for doing it, it wasn't mandatory, it wasn't advertised. The time frame was all wrong, etc.
Maybe, this whole thread just rubs me the wrong way. I teach and hear excuses about not getting homework done. Some of the posts here reminded me of my students.
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I think somebody already mentioned that many teams don't meet regularly through the summer or even the fall. I think it's rather self-evident why it is impractical or unrealistic to expect those teams to make a video, so I'll focus on why my team (a team going into our eighth competitive season, having won a couple of Engineering Inspiration Awards and a RCA along the way) didn't do the homework.
We didn't do the homework.
That's the summary of "why we didn't"-- heck, we even have a student that loves to do videos that, had he heard about this, would have leapt at the opportunity. Sometimes there is no excuse-- and sometimes there isn't any real consequence either.
That being said, I would hazard a guess that many of the teams that fall into our "boat" of having the resources but not making a video certainly have made good usage of their time during the fall-- we've been busy mentoring the seven new FTC teams that we started this year, thank-you-very-much, in addition to doing our own recruitment and fundraising.