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Re: [FRC Blog] Frank Answers Fridays: June 13, 2014

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The current season calendar is basically locked-in at this point. Kickoff can't be any earlier without taking place during most schools' winter breaks. Stop Build can't be any earlier without kickoff being any earlier. You need 7 weeks of competition to fit all the events in and Championship can't be any later because of AP testing. At least there's still that week off between the end of the "regular season" and Championship.
Thinking outside the box: Get the College Board to set up a testing site at Champs, maybe the Tue or Wed before competition or the Monday after. Allow qualified team members to transfer their test site to St. Louis when they qualify for Worlds. That would remove the back end scheduling constraint.

It seems that FIRST and the College Board should have exactly the same overall incentives here and given the high % of FIRST participants taking the AP (and the SAT), that the College Board should be more than willing to work with FIRST toward a solution.

Other spring sports (e.g., baseball, track, etc.) are able to work with the AP testing schedule. We should be able to do the same.

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