[Katie Hans]

We use scouting sheets when we're in the pits, as well as take pictures with a digital camera. Additional information on the robots can be written on the back of the sheet, since it's blank (or at least the ones we used this year are).

Anyways. After the scouting is more or less finished, the information that we wrote on the back of the sheets is transferred to a Word document and saved as that team's number, and the same goes for the robot pictures. That way, it's a little easier to find information and match it to the robot.

The night before alliance selection, we have a scouting meeting, attended by everyone who helped with scouting and the team leaders. That's when we review information and pictures, and that's when we make the decision of who we might pick as alliance partners if we're seeded. Or, we try to make a decision.

That's how it works on our team, as far as I know. I'm not very experienced, but that's how we did it when I was helping.