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Re: At what point does it become unacceptable for a mentor to design/build the robot

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Originally Posted by DonRotolo View Post
For some teams, the mentors need to be very involved. For other teams, they almost don't have mentors. Most teams lie between those two extremes, and as long as everyone is OK, it is OK. When someone doesn't like it, they need to change it democratically.
Yeah, what Don said !!

This is an old thread in a new bottle. Teams ( student/mentors ) need to have an understanding of what success looks like. Having a winning robot is fun, but not necessarily success.

Teams need to have an understanding of what the off-season accomplishes in order to be ready for the on-season.

Knowing what success looks like, what you are trying to accomplish and focusing on that will help a lot. Solving team dynamics problems (forming, storming, norming, performing) before the on-season before kickoff helps a lot.

Team goals just collided with team dynamics !!

This is my 8th year doing this and we have had years with maybe 75% mentor involvement, 50%, 25%, and now about 1%. Next year will be maybe 33%. If we can keep it to 20 or 30% over the long haul I will be happy with that.

It is really nice getting things to the place to where the mentors can step forward or backward into the process as necessary.
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