I’m new to robotics and I find it challenging but I might overcome that, but I need to know where you get the judging paper for the notebook to see what earns you points. If someone could please tell me that would be awesome thanks 
Just a link or website or something that can help me find it
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You can find the rubric in the guide to judging!
The whole guide can be found at https://kb.roboticseducation.org/hc/en-us/categories/4421404969111-Volunteers?sc=judging, or just the current engineering notebook rubric at https://kb.roboticseducation.org/hc/en-us/articles/4461349729047-Judging-Resource-Engineering-Notebook-Rubric
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this discord server has a ton of expirence people willing to give feedback and help as well as a channel full of really good recources. i would highley suggest joining
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100% read the guide to judging.
In addition to that, I would recommend joining robot notebookers discord server to be able to get advice from over 1000 other notebookers.
YouTube is also a great place to learn as many teams who have won prestigious judges awards have posted their notebooks there.
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1469A’s engineering notebook website gives a lot of good tips. The “Engineering Notebook Resources” page also compiles a wealth of great resources of top teams going through and explaining their notebooks.
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Thank you for the tips
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Fair amount of misinformation here.
This statement directly conflicts with page 27 of the Guide to Judging. The GtJ makes it quite clear to evaluate the notebook on the content, not how nice it looks.
Different teams may submit notebooks with varying levels of sophistication and beautification. For example, some teams may have brief sketches in pen, others may have colorized illustrations or CAD/electronic drawings. Judges should be cognizant of evaluating the content of notebooks, not the level of beautification. It is possible for many different types of notebook and different communication styles to present relevant content explaining the design process.
The GtJ doesn’t state that you need a team biography in the notebook. When, judging I always skip past on my first look through and only read it if I am specifically looking for information. The only thing remotely close to RECORD OF TEAM AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT section of the rubric on page 43. While this may help with that, it is by no means needed in order to score a 5 IMO.
The only way the judges assign points is off of the criteria on the interview and notebook rubrics. Additionally, there is no way to know what score a team achieved in the rankings, as awards do not have a 100% correlation with a teams score. Finally, this has not gotten you a excellence, design, or judges award at every tournament you attended last season. 50027P did not win any judged awards last season. And while some of the other derby teams did win awards, they did not win a judged award at every event in the season.
If everyone on your team has handwriting in such a way that it is illegible and may be hard for the judges to decipher, you can do a digital notebook. This is what most teams do anyways and is what I would personally recommend.
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Thank you for informing me
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can you resend the link it says its expired ://
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sure thing let me know if this one goes bad to
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1. Read the rubric. Use the same language as the rubric so that judges can easily find the portions of your notebook that align with it.
2. If you didn’t write it down it didn’t happen. Put everything down. Judges love to see evolution of sketches, vast amounts of data, comments on software versions, and other things of the like. The goal of the notebook is that someone unfamiliar with your team could use the notebook to recreate your process.
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I would say to be very consistent and if you dod a digital notebook put pictures in it to show the judges what you actually did.
Have a section that lists your team members, it does NOT need to be very wordy, this is an engineering notebook after all. Make sure to note what the game is about such as the problems, how you can score, etc. Next, I would say document the process of building the robot and make sure to include things like “CAD” or ideas you had and why you chose to build or not to build them. Do not worry too much about keeping it pretty as the judges are looking for content over apperance. Be sure to make things legible, judges do need to understand what is in it. Also don’t forget a table of contents. Remember I am not a documentor just look at my user!
this one worked thanks!!
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Would you mind resending this? It expired again lol
Sure thing! Feel free for anyone wanting a new invite to resond to this msg
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About that, what do they mean when the judges say to make the notebook so that someone new to robotics can recreate the robot? Does that mean the notebook should be like a step by step guide of how to build our robot, and some random dude on the street can entirely recreate it piece by piece from scratch?
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Pretty sure that this is what the judges are looking for.
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Maybe not any random person, but that’s basically the gist. I have seen some excellent exploded views of assemblies, many hand drawn. Complete software documentation. When you’re looking at the top 15-20 teams in the world, those competing for design and excellence at VEX Worlds, this is what they are doing that separates them from the rest of the pack.
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Should I just build the bot on tinkercad and insert the pictures into the notebook?
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