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Originally Posted by Leeland1126
2 - What are your experiences being a new mentor on a team? As a Non-Engineering Mentor-wannabe, with a little experience in strategy, design and programming, am I going to find that some teams won't have much of a place for me? Or do most teams find some place for an aspiring mentor? I'd assume that varies from team to team, but what have been your experiences?
-Leeland
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I have no experience with the larger more established teams, but the ones I know can always use more mentor help whether it is technical or not, experienced or not, etc. Sometimes all that is needed might be to have an extra person over 18yrs old to be in the area where the robot is being tested because those are the rules the school has set.
You are likely to be welcomed into any team even if for nothing more than being nothing more than being a warm body at first, and can find your own area of interest and expertise over time. And if you want to mentor in an area where you have no experience right now, even that may not be a problem. I am continually surprised that the students are sometimes just as good teaching the mentors as the other way around.