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Re: Mentors as Drive Coaches?

It's pretty clear that things can go any which-way on this topic.
Mentors, students... Teams with either as a coach have had great success. You can't attribute success to mentor coaches like 111, 33, 217, etc. when teams many great teams have all used student coaches to great effect. Coaches should be decided by the best person for the job. If it's a student, or a mentor, then that's that.

I'm personally of the opinion it should be a student. This organization is about inspiring the students, and I understand that that comes with the mentors being the ones who try their best to inspire, and thus having a mentor coach seems to fit the ideal of FIRST perfectly (The mentor instructs, the students act), but it just seems right to me that a student coordinates the creation on the field. As someone who is looking into mentoring new teams soon, I'd love the opporunity to coach a team. But my rule for myself is, should I be asked to coach, I won't coach a match unless there is no student willing to do the job.

That's just my 2 cents. In the end, whatever everyone agrees on and whatever makes everyone happy is the best decision.
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Last edited by LeelandS : 03-04-2012 at 18:25. Reason: I made a fool of myself... again -_-
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