Poor Dean's Homework 2013 Turnout

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Libby K

You're a veteran. There's always homework. I think the assumption made by FIRST here is that teams will go and seek out Dean's Homework, and that's just plain not the case.

That gets me thinking...

My memory isn't perfect after 20 years of events, but wasn't Dean's Homework previously assigned during Kickoff and not the Championship? (Many years ago). If a team doesn't watch kickoff, then there's really something wrong.

Why not have the yearly homework put out in Dean's speech there, rather than at the CMP? That way everyone sees it.

It was previously assigned during Dean's kickoff speech, and IIRC during his Championship speech he would generally provide an update of some sorts during his CMP speech. I did notice that it was missing during this year's kickoff speech (and now that I think about it, I'm not too sure if I remember Dean even having a long speech during kickoff). Could it have been overlooked in the recent efforts to make kickoff shorter/more fast-paced?

2012 during kickoff he emphasized three things:Incorporate FIRST into everyday life, tracking Alumni, and nominating juniors for Dean's List (Source)

2011 was announced at Kickoff as being incorporating the word "FIRST" into everyday life (Source)

2010, was to reach out to inviting people outside of teams to FIRST events (Source, this page doesn't describe it much, but I personally remember an emphasis being put on inviting "outsiders" to FIRST events)

2009 and 2008 were pretty typical of Alumni network creation and spreading the word of FIRST via media.

2007 was trying to get legislative initiatives/writing to local politicians.

Special thanks goes out to Team 365 for being one of the top google results for "Deans homework 2011" and keeping consistent URL formats to allow a change of number to give me results