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Originally Posted by Peter Matteson
I have a couple of simple reccommendations to the team mentors reading this thread to help drive home why to read the manual to your teams:
1.) Put together a 10-15 question basic quiz for your teams to take in the first week of build. take the questions from the robot, game and arena sections of the manual primarily and give your team a pop quiz. - It will make you think about the rules more and encourage your students to read them if they are ashamed of poor performance on the quiz.
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Doing things like this will help you think through the rules before asking questions and will be invaluble when forming a strategy.
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Everyone on team 116 (student or mentor) is required to take a rules test on the robot, game, arena, and tournament sections of the manual. You have three tries to pass the test and each time you take it, the test gets progressively harder. If you don't pass within 3 tries, you're off the team. The test starts out incredibly easy and it doesn't take a whole lot to pass, but failing multiple times picks out the students that are not serious and are showing no signs of commitment early on. Students who want to be on the team are ready when they take the test. This forces students to read the manual and it saves us a lot of time when designing and building.