Say I wanted to use an engineer’s notebook that my school has (the binding provides an easy way to remove papers, see below), would my team be at risk for the design award for not having a notebook in which the pages, if removed, can destroy the entire notebook?
Examples of the binding from the engineering notebooks at my school :
http://yvrprint.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/cerloxbinding.jpg
I could be wrong, but as far as I know, there are no official requirements for what a notebook must look like. I’ve seen everything from illuminated manuscripts that were works of art to three pieces of hastily printed email clipped into a giant ring binder.
Okay, thanks. I’m going to use it anyways. If anyone has a certain answer, please still let me know!
According to appendix D, http://www.roboticseducation.org/documents/2015/05/vex-nothing-but-net-appendix-d-awards.pdf
However, from experience, most people don’t even know there’s a design award judging rubric (which aesthetics is not a criteria). http://www.roboticseducation.org/documents/2015/06/vrc-design-award-rubric.pdf Because of this, It’s best to contact the event itself and see if they care. After all, they are the ones who make the call.
But I would be careful though. The notebooks are usually stored in some sort of container. If the notebook itself is fragile and comes apart under carelessness (misgrabbing the notebook, other teams notebooks putting pressure on the spines, etc.), then yes that would be a problem.
We always used a simple 3 ring binder with printed pages.
We won multiple excellence and design awards including a worlds divisional excellence award doing this so judges are ok with it.
(note this was 2-4 years ago)