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Originally Posted by Amanda Morrison
I think my next step is an old-fashioned pros and cons list.  |
I support this but I worry that such a rubric would be royal pain to scope.
This would require some serious thought to do and I doubt it would be as straight forward as a vote with no context.
I guess the first step is to agree there's a good reason to consider it and that it will result in action from FIRST who governs all this.
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Originally Posted by MrForbes
techhelpbb: You already have the rest of the year to learn all that fun stuff.
I'm surprised how many people seem to think that you can improve teams' time management skills by simply giving them more time. It doesn't work that way.
It only takes 3 days to build a robot.
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Actually we really do not have the whole year:
It is very likely you can loose the summer if the school is where the tools are and the tools are not mobile.
If the students participate in other activities it is hard without a structure provided to keep them engaged. Yes the deadline serves this purpose but there are better ways.
On the other hand, as I pointed out before, weather can be dangerous and storms do not move just because someone sets a deadline. Also a lot of business have critical deadlines in those first 6 weeks of a year. When it comes down to it this is about time management: do you manage the time that pays the bills and feeds you family or do you manage the time for something that extends critical missing skills into your school system that taxes the money you earn to continue to operate?
Again I can build a robot in 1 day with the parts in my barn right now. What does it do for my community to do that?