Unfortunately, our team didn’t make it to states this year, meaning I have a lot of time to work on code for the next season and make a new codebase to make my work easier next season. From what I’ve been able to tell, I am allowed to do this, but I can’t find any resources on if it would be allowed to include my off-season work in my team’s engineering notebook, even though I’d have to write it before we get started with our notebook (or even before we get teams assigned).
Also, our school has members switch teams every year, so I will likely not be on the same team next year, if that matters.
There are no rules against documenting your engineering, in fact I find it encouraging that teams take time to develop new skills and reflect on past season to preparing next season.
One thing I remember when judging, a question we would ask “if you had one more week to develop your robot, what would you do?”
Keep your own engineering notebook, and reference what you wrote when you join new team.
absolutly not. we document everything. that would be VRC, NRC, Competitions we go to watch and not compete in, any robot mods after the season or before we tear it down, and all off season projects and challenges we do in class.