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Originally Posted by MARS_James
I was just stating that he said that you could never have enough mentors to mentor a team of 30 effectively and you can, and we do. We are lucky for it I do admit
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That's an amazing number of knowledgeable mentors. Congratulations!
We've found that without doing the method of member-mentorship (especially on the controls team), you have a couple students really good at programming who handle everything for a couple years, then graduate. You're left with a new team who hasn't really done much with the robot.
Our structure strives to avoid that. Since the vast majority of our code is written in the first four weeks or so, this allows the newer folks to write it and the more experienced ones to go through and do the final debugging.
It also is a great experience for the members to learn how to effectively teach concepts and application. We've never had any complaints: all the controls folks get a lot of hands-on time with the robot (especially the practice bot) in the final few weeks post-bag.