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Disappointed - My opinion

dwinhold

Looking back at the latest design challenge Design for a Cause, I have to say I'm a bit disappointed. Before I continue, congratulations to everyone who competed and completed or tried their best. I always feel if you tried your best and didn't complete you still succeeded. This challenge was for a great cause and potentially help many people for little to no cost. This challenge was even more important as part of the winners prize goes to charity!! I personally put 100% of my effort and knowledge into creating my project as I truly hope one day it will become a reality for the seeing impaired. Now for the disappointing part:

 

16 competitors chosen / Unknown number of applicants

16 kits sent out

8 competitors completed

4 competitors started but didn't continue past a couple of blogs

4 competitors didn't even start

Now this means 50% took the challenge serious and wants to make a difference. 25% started and gave up (Reasons unknown). 25% didn't even start.

 

So what happened? 8 competitors got the kit for free and did nothing for it. They took away 8 others from competing in the challenge who could have made a difference. The kit was worth $250.00USD, so $2000 worth of electronics was wasted. That is wrong and disappointing....

 

 

Please leave a comment about this

 

 

Dale W

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  • Hey,

     

    I feel with you and I truly understand your comments. I must add one thing though, it's not a defence I think it's more about how these are markets and how people perceive them. The work and time needed to accomplish one of these challenges is imnese. It is really designing and implementing a FULL project. There is NO  design team, NO software team and NO Hardware team. It is all up to you the one person. On top of getting the work done blogs and documentation need to be completed. It's not for no reason the original skunk works was lacking documentation but excelled in getting the products out the door.

     

    I genuinely feel, at least for those that started but didn't finish, they don't realize the comitmnet of time and energy needed to complete a single challenge. It's a huge task with a lot of parts to it that takes a lot of time and effort. Hopefully moving forward they will have a better understanding as well as a clearer view of how much time is needed.

     

    Kas

  • in reply to kas.lewis

    Hi Kas,

     

    I do agree with you that those who start and get overwhelmed can cause them to stop and give up. That is why in my "rant" I also said, " I always feel if you tried your best and didn't complete you still succeeded." I always told my kids when they had a test at school, "If you study hard and do your best, if you fail I won't be upset. But if you don't try or study and then fail you have no excuse". I know its not the same as the competitors may have other reasons why they couldn't continue. I almost couldn't complete my project due to the serious accident we had.

     

    As Gough said, "A failure of the candidates to deliver is also a failure of element14 and the community to support them towards delivering something or to select those with a better probability of delivering". This may be something we need to look at to help those who get overwhelmed and frustrated.

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  • in reply to kas.lewis

    Hi Kas,

     

    I do agree with you that those who start and get overwhelmed can cause them to stop and give up. That is why in my "rant" I also said, " I always feel if you tried your best and didn't complete you still succeeded." I always told my kids when they had a test at school, "If you study hard and do your best, if you fail I won't be upset. But if you don't try or study and then fail you have no excuse". I know its not the same as the competitors may have other reasons why they couldn't continue. I almost couldn't complete my project due to the serious accident we had.

     

    As Gough said, "A failure of the candidates to deliver is also a failure of element14 and the community to support them towards delivering something or to select those with a better probability of delivering". This may be something we need to look at to help those who get overwhelmed and frustrated.

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