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Re: FIRST Philosophy 101
Gary makes a good point, feedback is important. It would be good for students to have a better way to gauge their accomplishments during the build season - a way for their robots to be rated or judged, for their efforts to be acknowledged.

Driving in to work this morning it occurred to be, maybe the way to answer these recurring questions and issues is to add feedback to FIRST. Is there presently a method by which all students are polled or asked to supply their opinions of the program, how things went this year? (It would be simple to ask: what aspects inspired you the most?)

I think the kind of feedback you would get from a 100% coverage 'student exit interview' would be very useful to fine tune the FIRST program to meet it primary goal.

We can speculate from our personal experiences one by one as mentors and students on CD for months and get nowhere. A ten minute end of season report from each student (and mentor) would be much more usefull and productive.

After all, we are engineers: we know the power of feedback!
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