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1. Autodesk needs to bring back the panel of professionals for judging. This meant that the judging was consistent because everyone saw every animation.
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Totally agree, as much as the students do on an animation professional should look at it. This is so they know what truely will fly in the professional world. Many student unless they are activly immerssed in the world animation can not acuratly tell what is award worthy.
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2. The animation competition needs to not be at the same time as the robot build. This gives the students an opportunity to work diligently on both.
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Agree because it is a thrill when you see a robot that you built, in some way, competing.
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3. We need a judging rubric. How are we supposed to know what it is that we are being judged on besides general categories?
4. We need a clear objective to achieve with the animation. This will give the animators a goal to shoot for (just like the game). This should not limit creativity.
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In schools even for little assignments a rubric is given to provide an idea, or possibly direction it is intended to go.
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5. Regional judging should be more organized if it is to continue. Maybe there could be a panel of team volunteers (students and mentors) to judge at regional competitions.
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Possibly a change for this could be a judgng that occurs before regionals, maybe later in the season so the students an do both animation and robot, is done by professionals.
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6. We need feedback. The honorable mention awards at least told the 3 teams recognized that they were close to what the judges were looking for.
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Totally agree, if nothing else it recognizes more than just 2 teams in a season. Also it affirms what the judges like.