This is my first year in robotics and as a senior, since this is my last year as well as many of our teammates, we went all out in making this a great season, and we did! Making it to states!! We couldn’t qualify for worlds but we’re still on the waitlist so who knows!
We had 3 people working on the notebook and had a very unique approach to the notebook. We first had a normal engineering notebook until we decided it would be better to create a digital version. And so as I worked on the digital notebook, we had 2 people, Joel and the best transcriber in the world, MUZAMALEEEEE, working on transcribing the digital version onto the physical version!! It was a very interesting experience because it meant double the work! But with this method, it provided the most accurate information possible for our design process and we hope that for next year, digital versions will be allowed so that the robotics kids don’t have to suffer as much as we did :DDDD
Anyways, here is our digital notebook! It is in no way any good, however I hope it provides some methods to how you can approach formatting your notebook! We might show the photocopy of the physical notebook however it has no pictures pasted. Handwriting is top quality though thanks to Muzamel and Joel, so maybe we will photocopy the notebook. They had transcribed everything onto the notebook except for the pictures :)) so noo design award sadly :(( 2068C Engineering Notebook!
I also want to thank 10703Z: 10703Z Change Up Reveal for showcasing such an incredible notebook! Her notebook is hands down 100x better than ours and I highly suggest checking her notebook out! I can’t tell you how many times I used her notebook as reference with color coding and formatting. SUUUPER helpful.
Welcome to forums alec! I’m sad to hear that this is your last year and hope that the waitlist comes through for you guys, and also thank you for mentioning our fundraiser. I’m sure people here will give you suggestions, concerns, and more. This will definitely help other teams (like ours) format notebooks for the future.
@alecalborz Thank you so much for the shoutout! It absolutely made my day to learn that my EDN was able to help your team. Also, thank you for sharing all of your hard work with the VEX community! This is such a great resources for teams looking to improve their notebooks.
OMG thank you for the kind words!!! I really admire the work that was put into your EDN in order to help serve as a resource for the VEX Community and to share your passion for robotics that it served as a great inspiration for working on our notebook! I can truly appreciate how much effort was put into your EDN; we made so many formatting errors in our physical notebook despite the fact that we had the digital version to reference from & spent countless hours and sometimes even days planning, and yet, I am still in disbelief that I have not discovered a single error or typo on your notebook! It must’ve taken a greaaat deal of planning and experience to make that possible. It’s just too perfect! Anyways, thank you very much for your contributions! I’m sure it’s reached and helped a lot of other people, just like it did for us!
Can you guys tell me what software or website you guys used to create your notebook?
I’ve taken lots of inspiration and I would like to know how you guys made this!
Thank you so much!!! It was all done in word! We tried doing google docs however we had a ton of issues with that whenever we tried editing the doc all at once…so definitely stick with word!