We are trying to improve our notebook. We have the basics down (ToC)
we also have a team intro, logs of everything we have done, an analysis of High Stakes, our problems and solutions, all of our rebuilds, materials prices, robot designs through the season, strategies for matches, summaries of all our competitions, map of the match field and skills field, and citations. Do you even need citations?
If you mean you were inspired by another team’s robot or took an idea, then you need a citation.
(well technically you just lose points. but it seems like ur objective is to have a good notebook so keep ur citations ig)
Judging Resource: Engineering Notebook Rubric – REC Library
“Independent Inquiry”
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what if the website we found it from was potentially from another team?
like the vex forum (this website)
the link is another helpful website. Would it help to use sources like this?
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Guide to Judging: Judging Engineering Notebooks – REC Library
It is required that teams abide by the principles of academic honesty in their Engineering Notebook, which includes citing and crediting materials and ideas that are not their own. If students find information that is helpful for their design development from any outside source, be it a website, book, video, or another individual/team, they should properly credit the source of that information and explain how they are using that information in their design process. They should not attempt to claim outside information as their own original work. Misrepresentation of student work is considered a violation of the REC Foundation Code of Conduct as well as the game manual.
So I think the main idea is to not claim it as your own
I guess the website could be a good resource but honestly a game analysis is something that you (probably) can do yourself, while implementing a PD drive control function is something that you (probably) can’t do without any help whatsoever.
(Like for example:
There are five mobile goals; each alliance can be expected to control two mobile goals each, leaving one mobile goal to be contested. Mobile goals can be placed into positive or negative corners, with the overall expected amount of points to be around the amount of points without modifier corners. (-x+2x=x) There are only two wallstakes, both of which are contested between the alliances like the fifth mobile goal. et cetera)
Also, have you explained how you are testing your designs?
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We havent. But basically we just build a better version of the robot and test it at a competition 
Should we add that to the notebook Yeah, we did the analysis by ourselves in the way that you showed above, but like, the LITTLE things we got from the website. So you’re saying citing is good! thanks again so much for taking your time to help our team… our school is in its 2nd year of vex and we don’t know much.
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Our notebook is due tomorrow… This is the link… can anyone tell us what we’re missing?
Thanks so much… we’re in a pretty bad situation for regionals…
Hey check this out we used this as an example and its pretty reliable. https://recf.org/documents/2019/09/vrc-sample-engineering-notebook-team-1575a.pdf/
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yeah, thanks! We found this while looking around the we for past notebooks and it seems like the one everyone’s going from? and i’m sorry i just realized the link doesn’t work. this community is so wholesome for coming together to help each other. sorry off topic but yeah! we love the bullet-pointed list instead of just straight paragraphs.
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Do you know what team I would give credit to if i had to cite this? Thx
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Photos, table of contents, consistent fonts and language and clear words ig???
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should all photos have a caption? and up to how many fonts should we use for our whole notewbook?
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