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Originally Posted by Carolyn_Grace
It would be embarrassing to do this, but it would also show students the right way to apologize for something, instead of blaming something/someone else. It's frustrating, yes, but the servers crashing are ALWAYS a possibility around awards submission times.
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I'm sorry... Sorry that I trusted FIRST to be the gracious professionals they ask everyone else to be. When the government shut down, NASA graciously extended their deadline to submit for their grant even though there was time prior to submit. When snow storms affected numerous teams, FIRST graciously upped the withholding allowance even though, apparently, you can build a whole robot in three days.
If I told my students they had a deadline to turn something in and then I had a substitute on the day it was due who, for some reason, wouldn't collect their assignments, I would graciously accept their work the following day to accommodate for the unexpected circumstance rather than tell them too bad.
Yes, this is the real world. Graciousness abounds in the real world. I'd expect FIRST, of all organizations, to live up to those ideals in this situation, and I'm sorry that in this case they are not.
They see us come into school looking like zombies, and they know that some people start smelling like chain lube and such...but for the most part, they don't realize that for a lot of us, there is a deep commitment to our team that we do a very large amount of work for that team. - JakeGallagher [more] 
21-02-2014, 11:46
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