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.
and select "Join or leave the
list".
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