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Re: At what point does it become unacceptable for a mentor to design/build the robot
The best way to avoid these discussions on CD is by teams learning their own team dynamic and discussing it with students, teachers, and mentors together.
The better the students understand the mentors' motives and actions, the better they react. Usually this means more rational reactions and less irrational threads on CD (Not that Kusha is an example of this). When mentors understand students' concerns, they learn how to better react to farfetched ideas in a method that is more conducive to the student being inspired/learning from the mentor.
It really boils down to team communication that happens before build season. Open discussion and everyone understanding how the team runs/how they want it to run is what makes or breaks a student's reactions to these types of scenarios.
+.02 based on experience from the past season and offseason. Kusha, feel free to PM me or chat on facebook about my team's experience with these issues.
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