Poor Dean's Homework 2013 Turnout

[Libby K]

1923 did not get to finish ours by the deadline. We barely have students meeting consistently before Nov 1, let alone the time to dedicate to video production for it. (We're not going to submit something hastily thrown together; if it represents FIRST, it's got to be good.)

I think if this deadline was extended to later in the year (December), or even 'By the next Championship' - since that's when the next homework is given out, we could have made a pretty great submission.

Why?

Anything you capture for your team's media over the year could be usable here. However, where are most of your video/media resources going? Chairman's. If you film the stuff you put into Chairman's, then you can repurpose it for the homework video. Similar content, different end result.

This also could have been promoted better within the community, as well as by FIRST. One email against the hundreds that people can get per day, is going to be ignored -- they announced it on the social media pages for FIRST, but not everyone in the community follows those. Our own little CD community could have talked about it more.

But you know what we could do, since we're all so disappointed? Make a video anyway. Perhaps FIRST could extend the deadline. Maybe the submission folder will stay open.

Who cares if it's 'for the homework assignment' or not?! Use it as practice for your media students, before the kickoff. If you don't have any media students/mentors, see if teams around you do and can help you. You'll need it for Chairman's anyway later.

I think the best thing FIRST could do to drive submissions would be to extend the deadline, at least until Kickoff -- and the best thing the community could do is to keep reminding each other of the homework challenge, until all the teams we're friends with have submitted. It's not hard to make a two minute video; it's slightly harder to make a well-produced two minute video, but in very few cases is it actually going to be impossible for a team.

1923 will be putting ours out when it's done, regardless of whether the deadline is extended. It's about promoting FIRST to our community & beyond, not about getting a gold-star on Dean's Homework.