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Re: Fish or cut bait?
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Leah Stone <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 18:40:27 -0400
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Jeff - 

You won't be alone! We are going with the hopes of LEARNING and having FUN too!


Leah Stone
New Coach, Team 7226 - Creeping Creepers


On Oct 14, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Phil Smith III wrote:

> A final word: worst case, they come to a tournament, have fun, do badly—and have a much better idea of how to approach things next year!
>  
> From: First Lego League in Virginia and DC [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jeff Lavezzo
> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 6:17 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [VADCFLL-L] Fish or cut bait?
>  
> Hi Folks,
> I'm looking for some advice about my team.  
>  
> Through a variety of circumstances, our team finds itself very behind schedule.  We have yet to assemble a robot and only have one person on the team with experience programming the bot, (though the two coaches are both professional programers).
>  
> I'm in the middle of finally signing up for tournaments and recognizing that the best case scenario is that we get one more month, worst only a few weeks. I can't seem to get the kids together for more than about 90 min a week. Everyone has something at some other time. Ideally, we'd add a couple 3 hour weekend meetings to get us back on some semblance of a track, but I think I could only get about 3 team members for that.
>  
> Here's the question: Should we even sign up for the tournament?
>  
> I have my own ideas about our options, but I'd like to hear advice from those with more experience than me (I have no experience with FLL, haven't even been to a tournament). Especially advice from someone who's been in this position before: inexperienced coach, inexperienced team, hardly any time left.
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Jeff
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