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RE: Competition Date for 2005



May/June is not a great time for schools. Years 11-13 (16-18yr olds)are all concentrating on their exams and are out on study leave so aren't around/willing to put time into something else. However, teachers tend to have a little more time freed up due to the loss of these classes to be around to supervise them working!
By July their exams are over, but then alot of schools have language exchanges that run during the last couple of weeks of term so some students may not be available then either. Plus Yr 11 and Yr 13 don't come back into school, so may have already booked holidays. Private schools presumably break up quite early for the summer, so this may not be convenient for them either. 
I'm not really sure what is a good time for schools. The later in June the better? But having said that the science and maths Alevels are still going on this week - your potential competitiors?

Penny
KEGS



 --- On Wed 06/30, Allen Wayne < Wayne.Allen@rhul.ac.uk > wrote:
From: Allen Wayne [mailto: Wayne.Allen@rhul.ac.uk]
To: micromouse@cs.rhul.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:06:41 +0100
Subject: RE: Competition Date for 2005

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<DIV><SPAN class=156485807-30062004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Yes we 
want to encourage schools, but the last weeks in June are a complete killer for 
us. (And I believe we are not the only university that finishes mid June. Its 
impossible to ask students to be around for 2 weeks after the end of term, 
especially as some of our mousers were from overseas. In fact once our teams 
found out when the event was most of them drifted off and lost 
interest.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=156485807-30062004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
size=2>However saying this we will still make an attempt to field competitors 
whenever or wherever the event is. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=156485807-30062004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>In 
relation to the rules, why not make the change to R13, and then adopt the APEC 
rules? instead of running with the IEE/RHUL/TIC version, we adopt, in full the 
APEC rule set and mirror them. It reduces the problems with overseas competitors 
having to run under different rules, reduces arguments, and if we agree now 
the competitors for next year can work with the knowledge that the rules are not 
going to change from week to week.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=156485807-30062004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
size=2>Wayne</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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