Michigan Teams: Check Your Calendars!

[Robostang 548]

Ok, so today our coach got the email about the MME(Michigan Merit Examination) testing dates. This test is for all juniors in the state of Michigan and is mandatory to graduate. A problem is that almost 50% of my team is composed of juniors. My team is going to the Boilermaker Regional 3/13/2008 - 3/15/2008. The testing dates are from 3/11/2008 to 3/13/2008. This kind of generates a problem for half my team in terms of getting to Indiana. Our drivers are most likely going to be juniors and a lot of our pit crew members and sub-group leaders (programming, drive train, electrical, etc) are juniors. My question is, are any Michigan teams going a regional like Boilermaker or Detroit also running into this problem?

The makeup dates for the test are 3/25/2008 to 3/27/2008. That Thursday is also the first day of The Great Lakes Regional. We think we might be able to get our juniors to miss the test and take the retake. That way, we are all there at Boilermaker. Fortunately for us the Thursday of the retake gets out between 10am-12pm so our juniors should be able to make it to a lot of the practice matches as well as fixing the robot until the pits close if need be .

-Don