[Captain Rich]

I'm not sure, but I believe that he means scouting at the competions. In that case, I would advise getting organised either with lots of papers or a laptop. Our team makes a fairly strait forward sheet asking questons about robots:
Team #, Team name, Drive system (2W-F, 2W-C, 2W-R, 4WD, Other), Brief description of manipulator, Autonomous strategy, Manual strategy,Robot capabilities, Actual robot performance, Points scored, Team record (W-L-T), Comments (miscellaneous stuff that doesn't fit into a major category)

We then explane the sheet to the team, so people who haven't been working with the drive system don't sound stupid when asking questons. At the competion, the team splits up into pairs and interviews a number of teams, then we bring them back to one person in charge of stratagy. Then through the day, we watch the robots and write down notes, like if the robot actually works. Then we decide which one looks the best, and either beg for them to pick us, or pick them.

I think that solves your queston.