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Re: What would you do to improve the FIRST experience?
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To the extent FIRSTers and members of those other programs can cooperate to reach and change as many communities as possible, by catalyzing and nurturing a diverse ecosystem of STEM programs (FIRST, BEST, VEX, CyberPatriot, SeaPerch, ...) in all communities, the "FIRST experience" of everyone involved will be improved. Blake PS: If we don't do this Dean will sue those programs and us for non-infringement on the cooperation part of his coopertition patent ![]() Last edited by gblake : 21-04-2016 at 19:33. |
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Re: What would you do to improve the FIRST experience?
A mentor on FRC 1923 came up with a Queing system called the GMS that I think had the potential to be even more.It was tied directly to the FMS and allowed to track teams to Que up for matches. I think it could have been used as an app to give information to teams from schedules to statistics. I also think it could be used to send different levels of messages to teams when it times for them to Que up for matches (kind of like a buzzer you use at restaurants when your food is ready). Alas it never has been used beyond Midknight Mayhem.
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Re: What would you do to improve the FIRST experience?
I coach an FRC team and an FTC team. I'm new to FIRST (and teaching)!
We have a great time running an FRC team in a high school with 86 students in four grades. Are we at a disadvantage? Sure. Do our students get a great experience? Absolutely. So what do I do with my junior high kids? FLL (4th-8th) where they play with legos or FTC (7-12th) where they compete with high schoolers? FIRST needs to tighten this up. I would like one high school program and one junior high program and one elementary program. The nearest big city (Midland TX) has seven FTC teams, all in high school. All at much bigger schools than ours. Our junior high FTC team competes against high school teams. Take a look at this photo to see what I mean: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9E...ew?usp=sharing We would not do this in athletics and should not do it in robotics. I understand that FTC is more affordable and is a smart choice for lots of high schools. I just think that FIRST needs to admit that they have an expensive high school program and own it. Leave FTC to junior high kids and stop running parallel high school programs. |
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Re: What would you do to improve the FIRST experience?
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FIRST Mid-Atlantic uses GMS for inspection & queueing at events. I love the inspection implementation - all inspectors can see where each team is through the process. Red for no-inspection, Yellow for Size/Weight, Green for complete, IIRC. (I'm sure someone who has inspected at official events can clarify.) Plus the ability for pictures right there in the system of what's been changed for each re-inspection. Pretty cool to work with! Last edited by Libby K : 22-04-2016 at 15:59. |
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Re: What would you do to improve the FIRST experience?
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Re: What would you do to improve the FIRST experience?
Obviously I'm biased, but I think FIRST should focus on making minority groups feel accepted, especially WOC and the LGBT community.
Along with everyone else, the cost needs to go down. Even if hotels gave a discount for FIRSTers that could make a large difference for teams. |
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Re: What would you do to improve the FIRST experience?
Well, if you mean get it back to what it was circa November, no question about it!
Many of the other issues raised seem to be team-specific rather than endemic. Though perhaps this many specific issues constitutes a greater problem. |
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Re: What would you do to improve the FIRST experience?
I think the awards should be separated from the robotics competition. Both are so important, that they deserve that division.
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Re: What would you do to improve the FIRST experience?
Answering a question in another CD thread gave me a reason to hunt down some of the schedules I created (see the quoted text below) years ago. They can be found attached to a post in this VEX Forum thread VEX Forum Thread
The FRC match scheduling algorithm/process was one topic discussed in this CD thread. Quote:
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