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Originally Posted by PayneTrain
To add on to this, I think if FIRST is going through the trouble of adding in more opportunities for judging of awards, we need to be getting better feedback everywhere. I was very disappointed and had a confused look on my face when I took the awards lead down to pit admin to collect the nonexistent feedback, but going back over the feedback sheets we did get at Alamo and Virginia, I wish we got better feedback.
FIRST has my email and contact info for myself and the other contacts in TIMS. 422 went to championships to see how we stack up against other teams and learn from them. While we had the opportunity to do that with the robot, it was very disappointing to not get that same experience from judges of the highest honor in FIRST. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that we are miles behind 33, 340, 503, 604, 1108, 2486, or the Hall of Fame teams when it comes to program quality, but I want to know exaclty where we need to be improving and to see if we are missing anything.
I know under the new structure judges are overworked, but I would like the detailed, digital feedback offered at one of Spectrum's events (Dallas or Lone Star?) to be available at every event including Championship.
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Being an alumni from 340 who personally worked on Chairman's, an ex-website judge, and a mentor for many teams now I cannot even begin to tell you how important feedback is! Each year Dean gives homework, but that's often not the only guideline that the judges are looking for. When I worked on website and Chairman's for 340 the information from the judges was imperative when it came to not only improving for next year, but also knowing what we did well. It made it so the team rookies could also read/watch what was submitted and know the same thing. When the website award still existed and I judged, being able to tell the teams what they did and did not do well helped me judge them better.