I saw a notebook that all the judges loved at a competition, and then it fizzled to no updates after meticulous details for the first design… Why? not sure. The team/organization was good - but could not keep the momentum. Perhaps too much emphasis was put on professional looking and draftsman penmanship that it intimidated the others from the team to contribute.
Be authentic, be a team, have fun, have a process, be clever at how you play the game, and document how you did it - you will inspire judges to want to have time travel so they can be on your team
Thank you @lacsap, for your valuable piece of insight!
I will bring this up to my team captain, in the hope of encouraging others on my team to participate in the construction of the EDN.
You are welcome! I am trying a new approach with one of our teams, having each member focus on what is needed to earn a specific judged award, Think, Build,…, making sure that everything needed to support earning the award is known by teammates and documented. This gives a critical eye from all members of the team.
Just to kind of summarize in case it wasn’t said already but organization, photographs, and progress is key. The judges look to see designs and ideas which is what you should start off with then the judges look to see progress, which you should record your progress in your notebook which is what it’s for. Use lots of images and also an idea that I have is to use color coded tabs, my team used it for our notebook and it just makes everything much more organized and easier to look at. Hope this reply helped
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