Convincing a team to go electronic

[Ari423]

Last year 423 experimented with a paper/electronic hybrid scouting system. Match data was recorded by hand on faux scantrons and then a central computer scanned and interpreted the scantrons and tabulated the data. It worked fairly well in testing (it was only developed for our last local competition), but it needs some more work before it actually becomes feasible to replace paper-only scouting. The end result, however, will be an electronic scouting system that doesn't cost the team anything (other than paper - we already had a spare laptop and webcam) and doesn't rely on the members' using their own phones (because a number of our members don't have smartphones).