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Re: Team Update #13
If there were no hard deadlines/no ship date - the bookkeeping side of things could become very interesting. At some point, I could see some teams pointing to the robots created during the year and play a counting/elimination game regarding which one/ones should stay or go. The organizational management and business management would shift and change.
Having the hard deadline as it has been, allows for planning for mentors and also, for students who juggle insane schedules filled with academic demands, extra curriculars, and somewhere in there I would hope they are developing social lives. Well-balanced social and academic development is important to the well-being of the individual students and their teams.
The GDC would be sending out updates like newsletters.
It could benefit teams who build/work on their sponsors sites but teams who build/work/depend on their schools premises - would have a difficult time. It would take - more - organization, planning, and time management to figure out their schedules.
I'm not saying it is bad, I'm saying it would require more work spread out over the time allowed, in the organizational end of things.
Jane
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Last edited by JaneYoung : 25-02-2010 at 10:06.
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