Official Q&A: Judging
1562: Optional Materials During Interview
Page 26 of the Guide to Judging:
Teams can use their Robot, Engineering Notebook (optional), and Programming laptop to show their code (optional) during the interview – other reference materials, props, or audio/visual aids should not be used to supplant these primary materials for the interview.
- Does the Judge Advisor have final say as to whether Engineering Notebooks and/or Programming laptops are allowed?
- If the answer to #1 is no, if a team requests for their physical Engineering Notebook to be part of their interview, are Judges expected to bring it to the interview for the team?
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The use of Engineering Notebooks and Programming laptops is up to each team to optionally use to assist in answering judges questions. While it is within the scope of the Judge Advisor role to provide guidance as to whether or not this assistance goes too far and becomes a presentation, it is not up to the Judge Advisor to allow or disallow these materials.
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Judges are not expected to provide teams their engineering notebook during their interview. Depending on the event, some teams may get their engineering notebooks back earlier or later in the course of an event and as such may or may not be available for the team to use.