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Unread 14-03-2011, 19:10
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Re: Another Culture Change
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Originally Posted by Mike Soukup View Post
Statements like this shouldn't bother me after being around for 11 years, but they still do. Why? Because it's completely bogus and it diminishes the work that our dedicated students put in.
This may be a big part of the problem. Teams that brag about being 'student-lead without mentor support' may automatically discount their own value to teams when they see a 'mentor/student' relationship that drives the team to excellence. When students and mentors diss either side of that relationship is when the potential for assumptions and wrong judgments is increased. They blind themselves to the reality by their own judgment and ignorance.

Taken further, communities that don't understand FRC and see it as a type of science fair will do the same thing, discounting the value of the students and judging the value of the mentors in unfavorable and untrue ways.

Jane
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