Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Matt Hallock
The contest should be more about the person or persons ability to use the software, not the ability to convey a message. While an animation should make sense, to give them a closed topic like, "What does FIRST mean to you?" is shortchanging peoples talent. Why? You basically just told people to model their robot. The entries I saw before I came onto the Royal Oak robotics team were basically disregarded if it didn't have the following:
A FIRST logo
Something to do with their robot
A lot of the entries I saw (Speaking of the 2002 entries I saw) had excellent graphics and technique, yet they didn't place well simply because their topic meant something to them a purely them.
|
They're peer judged so I'm not sure why you'd say the topic needs to be changed as opposed to the way students judge?
I don't know if they still did this last year or not, but in 2002 they had an award for "Technical Execution" or something like that was the most technical and "pretty" use of the given software.
I don't really see how "What does FIRST mean to you?" is a closed topic. If they said "Tell how your robot affects your FIRST experience" or "Convery a strong message about the relationship between mentoring and the FIRST experience" then I could see your point of view.