Jeff,
I have an experienced team and have coached for a few years. We are way behind at this point, research is not done, robot is 75% built, and we have no programming done yet. We signed up for a tournament on 11/3, talk about your "sink or swim" situation. We will be there and it will be a blast, no matter what happens.
Thanks,
LLoyd O'Hara
Coach, The Crestwood Monarchs
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From: Leah Stone
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Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: [VADCFLL-L] Fish or cut bait?
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
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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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