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Re: Mentors on drive team
Your coach needs to be mature, quick on their feet, able to keep their cool under pressure and EXPERIENCED. If a student can satisfy those requirements, by all means they should not be held back, however I've seen VERY VERY few students capable of handling all of those requirements. The big one is experience.
There are just so many situations that can arise both planning for a match and during a match that it is very important to have someone there who can speak from experience when dealing with a situation.
Whatever your team chooses is their own choice. Every team has their own preference, and because FIRST does not decree in the rules that a student or mentor HAS to be the coach, there is NO POINT in arguing which is "better".
-Brando
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MORT (Team 11) '01-'05 :
-2005 New Jersey Regional Chairman's Award Winners
-2013 MORT Hall of Fame Inductee
NUTRONs (Team 125) '05-???
2007 Boston Regional Winners
2008 & 2009 Boston Regional Driving Tomorrow's Technology Award
2010 Boston Regional Creativity Award
2011 Bayou Regional Finalists, Innovation in Control Award, Boston Regional Finalists, Industrial Design Award
2012 New York City Regional Winners, Boston Regional Finalists, IRI Mentor of the Year
2013 Orlando Regional Finalists, Industrial Design Award, Boston Regional Winners, Pine Tree Regional Finalists
2014 Rhode Island District Winners, Excellence in Engineering Award, Northeastern University District Winners, Industrial Design Award, Pine Tree District Chairman's Award, Pine Tree District Winners
2015 South Florida Regional Chairman's Award, NU District Winners, NEDCMP Industrial Design Award, Hopper Division Finalists, Hopper/Newton Gracious Professionalism Award
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