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FRC #2834 (Bionic Black Hawks)
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Re: Student time tracking?

At 2834 we still use an Excel Spreadsheet that we are easily able to add more students in (currently 40 + our old members and alumni being another 20) we haven't had an issue with sign in time taking too much time. What we do to make the process faster is use a barcode scanner to scan our students numbers into the system taking about .5 seconds to log in or out.

When the system was made by our old coach he wrote quite a few macros for excel and that was what he knew how to work with. we don't foresee switching from Excel anytime soon as its going to be able to accommodate for what I would say about 60 students. (our mentors and parents are also in the system as well with custom printed barcodes (i.e. a laminated card with the barcode 00000001) but they rarely sign in so the system has a list of over 80 people that could log in at any time.) I may try posting this here later if anyone would like to attempt to use it.
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