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Unread 15-10-2012, 01:21
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On to my 16th year in FRC
FRC #0696 (Circuit Breakers)
Team Role: Teacher
 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Rookie Year: 2002
Location: Glendale, CA
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Re: Coaching, Managing

The student needs a serious one on one talk with mentors that basically addresses the question of "Do you want to be here?"

Consider this:
I recently had a student (not on the team) tag a workbench in our shop. I was amazed (and glad) that he came forward and admitted he did it. School administration was going to suspend him from school for a day. Rather than that, I'm going to have him refinish the workbench and make other improvements to our lab over 35 minutes on each of 3 days during school. I think it's no question which will have the more lasting and positive outcome.

I can't tell you how to run your team or what to do with this individual student, but I'm reminded of a quote I saw years ago from another team mentor on here. It was something to the effect of "Sometimes we need to not worry so much about what can a particular student do for the team, but what can the team do for that particular student?" If I'd never seen that quote, I may have a team half the size.
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Teacher/Engineer/Machinist - Team 696 Circuit Breakers, 2011 - Present
Mentor/Engineer/Machinist, Team 968 RAWC, 2007-2010
Technical Mentor, Team 696 Circuit Breakers, 2005-2007
Student Mechanical Leader and Driver, Team 696 Circuit Breakers, 2002-2004
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