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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