FRC Blog - Something New - Team 'Standards'

[Liz Smith]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

In place of the banners add a Go Pro tied to the FMS to start and stop it... There you go, recorded footage fixed except for these pesky banners.

I'm being facetious of course, but the point is that the thought and effort that went into this could easily have been used for something more useful. It's more akin to saying the Red Cross should stop throwing cocktail parties for poodles until the bubonic plague is eradicated.

Just because they introduce one thing that new doesn't mean they aren't working on continually improving the program in other ways as well. As shown in bottom part of this blog post, webcasts, for one, are on the agenda for improvement:
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...-SCENES-AT-IRI
I think us here in Indiana like the pilot program trial for webcasts we did last year and are hoping something similar continues in the future. If not centralized by FIRST we will work as a district to provide a similar setup at our events.

But, more on the actual topic... My team is very excited to create a team standard and love the idea of acquiring patches and streamers throughout the year. Learning about this now helps us get even more enthusiastic about this year's game theme.