[BB] Bills Blog 11/10/11

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by apalrd

The idea of locking up bumpers separately seems odd, as the ability to work on your bumpers post-bag dosen't give you any advantage at all. It's better than requiring them to be in the bag, I guess.

Bumpers are technically considered Fabricated Parts therefore subject to Withholding restrictions in previous years. This was ignored at many events, and wasn't uncommon to see a team bring in what appeared to be 35lbs of upgrade parts along with two sets of bumpers at 12-15lbs a set.

Not to mention we've put as many as 20 man hours into our bumpers in any given year, so being able to make them after ship means those 20 man hours can be spent elsewhere...

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by apalrd

The idea of locking up bumpers separately seems odd, as the ability to work on your bumpers post-bag dosen't give you any advantage at all. It's better than requiring them to be in the bag, I guess.

I think that the intention of that section was, as Bob pointed out, so that teams have an easier time getting a bagged robot through the door. It's sometimes an interesting struggle to get them through doors with bumpers.

From the wording that's there, they still have to be bagged on bag day, whether it be with the robot or in a bag by themselves.

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by Dancin103

They have always suggested that. Our team has always tended to submit one junior and senior. It's really up to you. I know that some teams submit sophomores.

Cass

sounds like one of my former teams... the senior team lead was one nominee, and a junior, myself, was the other.

IMHO, whoever deserves to be nominated should get it. heck, if that meant a freshman, then it be them (I have seen freshmen that were worthy, believe me). if that happened to be two senior, then they get it. To me, let the 2 most worthy students get it, period.

[rachelholladay]

Originally Posted by BugByte

It's interesting that they're suggesting teams nominate juniors for dean's list. I understand they could benefit from it the most but I would like to think it's more than that.

Through NCWIT, I befriended Beth Hadley, who was one of the Deans List Winners from the first year. She said that Dean and them wanted to give the award to juniors so that they could put it on college applications. Apparently they wanted it to become a prestigious award that would help high achieving FIRST students (although every FIRST student is high achieving..) get into fancy colleges. Certain awards and competitions, like the Intel Science Fair, are acknowledged as being a 'big deal' and FIRST wants its Dean's List to join that kinda thing. Supposedly MIT already recognizes this as very important, which must be true because thats where Beth is now! (although she won Deans List as a senior)