Quote:
Originally Posted by flargen507
But I just had the experience of having to look at 30 depressed and distraught faces about a regional where our robot barely moved.
|
I've had experiences like this first hand, both as a mentor and a student and it is what drives me to work to the point of exhaustion (as a mentor) with the hope that I can prevent it from ever happening again.
I do not want to debate the mentor vs student built topic here, but I can assure you that many mentors that assist in the construction of their teams robot do it so that the students on the team can feel as successful as possible. There is nothing worse than watching a student pour their heart and soul into a project just to watch it fail in a high profile environment and knowing that some little thing could have been done to make that successful.