Winter Exemption
Date: 12.1.13 Time: 15:30 Location: Deerfield Academy Usually during the winter term I ski for the Deerfield Ski Team, however this is a very large time commitment, something I do not have space for in my Junior Year schedule. I decided to take the term to pursue other interests that would allow me more free time to focus on my schoolwork during such an important year. As the founder of the Deerfield Robotics Team, I decided to take the winter term off to focus on robotics and help prepare the team for competition. The FIRST FTC robotics competition is a serious time commitment, requiring many different components for a team to be ready for competition. While Deerfield is a boarding school, and the presence of the team together at all times should effectively eliminate meeting time as a concern, department policy means that the team can only meet when a faculty member is present to supervise. The teacher assigned to supervise the team, however, can only meet twice a week for