Any advice on what we should write for the team profile page in the engineering notebook?
Not much. The EN is about the robot and the process to engineer, build, program, test, and retest it. It is not about the team. Just one short page listing the team members - maybe with a picture of each student and a short bio (grade, years experience doing VEX). I guarantee the presense or not presence of this in an EN will not make an impact with judges. If you really want to go into detail about the team, I’d recommend an Engineering Journal - that is separate from the EN - and kept at your pit. There is a document by the RECF that explains the difference between an EN and an Engineering Journal.
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Great, thanks!
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Eh, I feel somewhat differently. I agree that profiles should not be long, but I feel they are important because they are pretty much the only place that you can show the team’s personality. I have had several judges comment positively about them. Yes, the overwhelming majority of the notebook is a serious, but our profiles are always a little fun. There is no one particular way to do profiles, but ours generally have a picture, name, grade, position on team, years in Vex, favorite thing about robotics and then something silly like favorite meme, or strange liking or favorite quote (which is usually funny) or whatever else the kids dream up. It shows the judges that yes, this notebook really was created by a bunch of high school kids- yes they take robotics very seriously, but they are still kids. Somehow that makes the content of their notebooks all the more impressive.
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Yes, it’s very fun as a judge to see the fun and cute side of the team. It really doesn’t impact scoring against the rubric, though. So, have fun putting it in there. I just wouldn’t advise spending too much time on it.
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