[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Bob Steele

It's good you got it in when you did Madison... it was a 9:00 am deadline.
(for us west coast types at least)

I did write to FIRST and ask them to consider an extension for teams on the west coast that tried for a long time last night to get in and could not...
I had already gotten ours in this morning...so this was not for our team...

Here was the response from them:
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We understand that last night’s technical issue negatively impacted teams, and we are very sorry for the inconvenience. We thank you for sharing your feedback about this, but we will not be considering a deadline extension as the Dean’s List Award was open for submissions from November 14th-February 20th.

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interesting and not what I expected... but I understand their point....
If I did not extend a deadline in my classroom after I was the one that had problems accepting an assignment on the last day that the assignment was due...... I would have major problems....

I am a little disappointed with this response from FIRST.
While our team submitted a week ago and recently had added/revised a few parts with success, I hope others didnt miss the deadline due to this.
The build season is a big factor when considering students. I fail to see how any good writeup, especially for a 1st year student can be done during the November 14th opening when school isnt even 1/2 way through yet nor was the experience of the student in an FRC program at its peak during build season.
Some of the posters here are also mentors who help build robots. Its not like they are procrastinating with so much free time to spare.
My only suggestion would be to extend it the same amount of time that it was unavailable for teams to submit.