[Katie Reynolds]

Logging hours:

We used to do that, but then people started going overboard with it. It was supposed to be "document the time you spend at the tech center. If you get there ar 4:00 and leave at 4:55, you can write down that you were there for an hour, it's fine." But people would go from 4:00-6:15 and say they were there for three hours... or they would say, "Well ... I spent ten minutes at home thinking of robot designs... so that counts for an hour of work, right?" And write that down. Bottom line: It just didn't work out.

As far as fund-raising to travel:

In the past everyone has had to pay a set amount to go ($25-50 for a regional, $100-$200 for nationals). It didn't matter how you got the money (parents, fundraising, or from your bank account!) as long as you got it in (and the engineers thought you worked hard enough to go) you could go. However, this year we are tryhing something different. Every student must fundraise 1/2 of the money they will need to go to each event. The other 1/2 of the money can come from fundraising too, or wherever else you can get it from! We'll see how this works out...

- Katie