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Originally Posted by Libby K
[perfectly logical and sensible reasoning]
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Sorry, I didn't mean to limit the "method" to only how they assigned it-- I meant to encompass the entire assignment-- from how it was assigned to what the assignment was. I should have been more clear about that.
I'm not entirely in agreement that the timeline was unrealistic-- I think that it's possible for significantly more that the amount of teams submitted to have completed the project.
I think in particular though, the main problem was that "zero-to-sixty" feeling from this assignment-- as was mentioned, previous assignments have been significantly easier. Going from "track your alumni and nominate students for Dean's List" (2012), stuff that most teams should be doing anyways, to "find a story, learn to edit video, find mentors to help to edit video, make a presentable video (to say nothing of making an awesome video)" is a rather massive leap. Perhaps if FIRST wants to scale up to "larger" homework assignments (such as a video), it would be a good idea to gradually scale up the difficulty of assignments-- teachers (at least for high school students) typically don't expect you to complete a final project before you've done any homework-- likewise, some sort of build up of the willingness of teams to take on increasingly challenging homework assignments would probably go a long way towards more teams fulfilling the requirements.