[jblay]

With regards to the coach I think that a mentor who has done it for a while can be very helpful in guiding the drivers and the position of coach is really a position of mentoring the driver.

With regards to the strategist. I was really my teams first real strategist. When I graduated and decided to come back as a mentor I did not know what I would do come competition time. I have always believed that this competition is about the students and not just the winning and as a mentor I had to do as little as possible while guiding the students to do as much as possible. Because of this I did not want to come back and just run things like I did when i was a student but I also wanted to help my team win. I decided that the best thing to do was to work along side a student with them making all the decisions and me giving my opinions but the final say being theres not mine. I believe the position of strategist should be that of the students and just like with the robot they should make the decisions with the advice and assistance of the mentors.