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Unread 07-04-2015, 23:39
sanddrag sanddrag is offline
On to my 16th year in FRC
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Re: Team 5012 looking for feedback on pit poster

Here's my $0.02. Please don't take it too critically, I'm giving my honest opinion as an outside observer who has never seen this poster before.

The 21,000 "meeting hours" figure doesn't seem quite right, along with many of the other "hours" figures. Do you perhaps mean, people-hours? Given that there's only 8760 hours in a calendar year, the 21,000+ meeting hours figure would imply that your team does robotics every minute of every day, and absolutely nothing else (including sleep).

Is the school name spelled out anywhere?

The >100,000 members of the local community number sounds pretty large. Not to diminish anyone's efforts, but how many of these 100,000 people who have been exposed to FIRST by your team have really taken something meaningful from it?

To me, the poster comes across like your team is trying too hard to win Chairman's, which actually does have a criterion of measurable specific impact (which your poster also includes). I'd recommend staying away from the huge exaggerated numbers. I could say we've shared FIRST with tens of thousands of people too, but what does that really mean? They've visited our website? Read my forum posts? Stick to specific measures of success, rather than broad generalizations.

Good luck at Championship. Perhaps I'll see this poster there!
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