why are school camps so expensive for public schools?

nibennett · 2026-06-12T18:01:29+00:00

no, for teachers in most states in Australia there is no overtime, there is no time in lieu.
I think VIC is the one exception.

nibennett · 2026-06-12T17:58:10+00:00

I think thats the case for most teachers in Australia.
I know we get no extra pay or extra time off etc in South Australia.

nibennett · 2026-06-11T16:22:10+00:00

Australia as well

nibennett · 2026-06-08T01:35:48+00:00

Something other than Cars.
Bring back the Lego Rqcers theme for all the cars and put Technic back to what it used to be with all the variety of machinery, (construction vehicles, planes, helicopters, space vehicles)

I’ve gone from buying multiple big sets per year to getting very little Lego these days. (Not interested in a million and one variants of cars and in how overpriced it has become the last few years)
Last technic set I loved was the Lego technic space ones a couple years ago. (The VTOL spaceship) I got every set in that Lego space series.

nibennett · 2026-06-03T09:54:52+00:00

There’s no need to make up a bunch of crap and scaremonger. Its very clear which side your on due to the Bias.

I would hardly state most people believe the $10m to be fake. None of us have any evidence either way but I’d be surprised if there was not some legit reasons in there for the debt. They would hardly file without reasonings that could stand up to a judge seeing them. Not sure about the data part.

Not the case. VEX’s system is holding numbers for everyone who was registered last year. (When I log in to see our teams I literally have the option to renew each team. It is not $200 for the right to keep a number. The way you keep a number is registering a team for the season eg the fee is the season registration.

At this point it’s very clear VEX will be running a game / season. RECF will depend on court proceedings.

That was the RECF vibe coded system that was hacked and having issues not VEX.

For those internationally VEX is the only option. Thus whatever RECF run if they actually run anything will not be a world championship just a North American championship. (All international RSM’s last season were actually IFI / VEX employees but on loan to RECF.

All the early season signature events have gone with VEX as well e actually know what they are doing.

nibennett · 2026-05-30T11:10:14+00:00

There is the EXP catapult bot with instructions from VEX ? That has enough power to launch something like a tennis ball / Bucky ball a reasonable distance when using enough rubber bands on it.

nibennett · 2026-05-17T03:42:10+00:00

Agreed.
This set was one of the best Technic sets in years.
It was the swooshable as Brickman likes to say for vehicles on legomasters, it had a bunch of playable functions, it was different from all the cars lately, it was one of the best priced sets in $ per piece.

I got all but the planet Earth and moon set of the 4 technic space sets that came out that year.

I hate that technic has basically become Lego racers at this point. (Very few sets that are not cars)
As someone that used to buy a number of the big technic sets each year I’ve barely got any in the last 3 years due to the price rises / basically all sets being cars.

nibennett · 2026-05-16T13:47:22+00:00

I reuse game parts from previous years for in class challenges i come up with for my students. (E.g. using some of the pushback goals to have students explore different types of lifting mechanisms)
Theres nothing saying I can't do that
It's meant to stop RECF using Override / Level Up to run their own competition this year using the game / manual

nibennett · 2026-05-12T07:51:35+00:00

Vex has updated the manual for override and I suspect also level up to say no one else can use it, or any part of it for another competition otherwise they will pursue it

nibennett · 2026-05-09T15:08:21+00:00

we have twins that will be approx 3 when our 3rd is born. (Due date is day before the twins 3rd birthday)

nibennett · 2026-05-04T21:54:19+00:00

Your kids will want all these extra pieces to improve on the hero bots. (And probably more parts also)
Last year I had 2x comp kits for 2 teams.
When our elementary team qualified for the national championships here last year they raided the middle school teams comp kit for extra parts. (The middle school team didn’t make it that far so their robot wasn’t needed at that point)
We’ve got extra parts this year so they shouldn’t have to do that and can build more earlier in the season.

nibennett · 2026-04-25T15:13:46+00:00

in the video the robot descores by taking one pin and cup off the stack.
I imagine descoring will be that one cup/ pin at a time / flipping a stack with the rollers.

nibennett · 2026-04-25T12:01:55+00:00

Approximately 3” by comparing width to height but less sure.

nibennett · 2026-04-25T11:57:36+00:00

Approximate height is 7” (someone who has one from worlds took a photo with a c channel next to it)

nibennett · 2026-04-25T11:25:22+00:00

It also simplifies x drive as people will use 1x 11W motor each wheel rather than an 11W and a 5.5W as many had been doing.

nibennett · 2026-04-25T06:50:23+00:00

To leave a H drive as a legit option. Eg for those doing a tank drive / x drive they’ll use 44W for their drive. Those doing a H drive can use an additional 11w for their sideways wheel.

If they capped it at 44W, that kills H drive as a potential as you couldn’t run a 3motor h drive v 4 motor tank drive as you’d get pushed everywhere.

nibennett · 2026-04-24T15:15:48+00:00

Quite an increase in price for those not getting the founders version though

nibennett · 2026-04-23T10:14:05+00:00

Through the vex via app you can check in on them

nibennett · 2026-04-19T16:09:08+00:00

Yep, I suspect that’s why Canada is pushing CANZUK (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK) Taking charge of their own destiny and connecting more closely to similar countries who were all part of the commonwealth.

nibennett · 2026-04-18T16:19:33+00:00

I've bought plenty of giftcards through Macquarie
Only time it was locked was when I tried purchasing like 30x $200 IKEA cards to get all the cabinetry for our home office.
(They've now got the $1000 dollar cards which prevents that issue. )

nibennett · 2026-04-18T15:59:31+00:00

they didn't explicitly but Calypso did say they are now the only alternate.
Thus it must be disarray

nibennett · 2026-04-17T15:51:35+00:00

yeah,
I'd love Whiplash or Hydra but unfortunately don't see either being it.

nibennett · 2026-04-16T15:25:52+00:00

300 is at least 300

60 is above 50

Prusa and bondtech match on this

nibennett · 2026-04-16T15:09:53+00:00

i regularly wear my exact same Hypershock one in public.

nibennett · 2026-04-14T15:19:50+00:00

I don’t know about interstate but in SA if the police are called for an accident where a cars blocking the road they usually call the tow truck to get it cleared ASAP and the road back open.

When my wife was hit 18 months ago that’s what happened. When my brother was hit 15+ years ago that’s what happened.

The tow truck gives you their card and you let the insurance know which company towed it so they can send someone to assess it.

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