[Ebolagirl]

Originally Posted by Bill Moore

If you do plan to collect a lot of information during matches, try to develop a checklist for your scouts that will collect the information easily. Then have training sessions before competition. If possible, use some of the streamed regionals if you aren't competing the first weekend.

There is nothing worse than the scouts writing out notes longhand, and having them miss half a match while doing so. (What happened? I was writing stuff down!)

It's interesting that you mention scout training. Our team competes in another robotics competion in the fall and I actually used that competition as a pseudo-introduction to scouting. I didn't get to train and organize as much as I would have liked because I had other responsibilities, but at least it gave the newbies a taste of scouting.