Hey there,
So, I’m going to be honest with you: my team’s notebook is not big. In fact, it’s pretty small compared to other notebooks.
I’m trying to remember that it’s not the page number that counts but rather what’s actually in the notebook. I’m aiming for around 80–100 pages for the notebook as long as it has good, solid notes in it.
Granted, I am Vex IQ and I suspect Vex IQ notebooks are a little smaller than V5 ones on a very general sense.
I’m slowly growing the notebook, and I’m striving to put in real information that is really needed and not just some random photos to make the notebook longer.
How important is it that your notebook is larger? Again, I get that it’s what counts, but I can’t help but get a little intimidated by these 500+ page notebooks.
Note: This is my first year doing a notebook and my second year at Vex.
If you can help me and share some past experience on size and how that correlates to actually having a recognizably good notebook please let me know!
Thanks.
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Great question. Just remember, don’t get intimidated by other, large, notebooks. Go at your pace. In context, the size of a notebook does not matter that much (suspecting it’s not, like, 5 pages long) but the information. This is a HUGE mistake teams make, so just keep that in mind.
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Haha, thank you!
It is definitely longer than 5 pages lol.
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You have a good range around 100 pages because my team had 130 pages in our notebook but we were able to get the design award. I have seen the big notebooks but just know as long as you have all the logs they want you have a good chance. Also many teams use page protectors making there book a lot thicker.we did this and it makes it look a lot better I recommend doing it if you can.
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Thank you for the advice!
My team and I did digital notebooks last season and will do the same now, so I won’t be able to do the page protectors, but if we ever go physical we will remember to do that.
It’s not necessarily the number of pages, its the content. Review the judging rubric to make sure you are covering the correct content.
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