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Originally Posted by FrankJ
Count me in the mentor does not belong on the drive team camp. I can see exceptions but not many. If you don't like it, I am not on your team
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I have to be honest, I feel that many times, teams who have heavily involved mentors are overly criticized. And it really irritates me. Saying things like "If you have an adult drive coach, I do not want to be part of your team" is actually incredibly insulting to me. You are passing judgement on our team without actually knowing how we operate outside of "Ooooh look they have an adult on their drive team!" So what? It works for us. Are you present at our weekly meetings, build sessions, strategy/scouting meetings, or in our pits? If not, please do not judge my team for choosing to have an adult coach. Don't come in here and tell us that we are wrong for what we do because, again,
it works for us. Our success on and off the field should be enough of an indication of that.
I had an amazing FIRST experience when I was in high school. We had mentors help us out a lot, but I can say that I got a whole lot out of FIRST. I have talked to many students from other teams who did not have anything close to my experience (and, yes, some of those students were from both student-driven and student-and-mentor-driven teams). Who are you to tell anyone how to run their team?