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Originally Posted by David Doerr
I learned about my role as an FRC mentor by watching and listening to other mentors on my team. Had I talked to mentors from other teams I probably would have a heard different stories about the role of a mentor.
It seems to me that since the FRC mentor/student relationship is special and unique it should be featured and explained prominently in the official mentor resource materials, along with specific examples of how it is implemented by various teams.
Reading about "I Do, You Watch, ... You Do, I Watch" in the mentoring guide l
<M0> Mentors shall keep their hands behind their backs always.
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I've never had a problem with mentors doing a large part of "the work" as you put it. This is allowed within FIRST and FIRST has struggled to keep the competition about the students and not about the robot. There was a time when sons stood by their fathers and watched to learn the trade and to someday take over. The same was true of daughters and mothers though at that time in a domestic role. The point is that they can learn by just watching... then, because they are in their teens, they become curious and want to try it themselves. I sometimes think being a mentor is easy... every brief now and then...
Anyway, case and point... you learned from the mentors by watching and listening to mentors. Same process works with young men and women in their teens....
Teens.... OK.... now I remember why being a mentor is tricky... but its cool.... ( South Park has ruined my life....)