Good Framework
Here is a general framework for a good engineering notebook:
Table of Contents: Make sure to keep updating it! Once you're behind, it's hard to catch up again.
Introduction to Team: A general description of who your team consists of and your values.
Goals for the season
Description of Current Game:
- Summary of game
- Rules
- Scoring
Description of Challenges and First Thoughts
- What's going to be easy
- What's going to be hard
- Strategies
- Design Ideas
For each meeting, record some of the following:
- Who was present
- Length of meeting
- What was accomplished
- Problems encountered in meeting
- Solutions or possible solutions
- Graphs! Tables! Pictures! Drawings!
- Signature of person who wrote the entry
- Date
Great additional resources:
https://renegaderobotics.org/all-about-vex-judged-awards
https://www.roboticseducation.org/documents/2017/07/team-design-notebooks-and-team-journals.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfKWW3x6_dPH5QFTZ1o8-gwKN_E8zVPMV
Example:
https://www.roboticseducation.org/documents/2016/11/vrc-engineering-notebook-team-1575a.pdf