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Re: Teams that do not bag their robots

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Originally Posted by pfreivald View Post
One of the biggest challenges of finding mentors is the time commitment. People have families and jobs (and sometimes second and third jobs) and other obligations; increasing the time required to run a FIRST team would probably make recruiting mentors even more difficult. We can only keep up with you caffeine-slurping whippersnappers for so long...

If anything, I'd rather we get rid of the withholding allowance!
I think we as mentors would be given more time. With an extended build season teams would not have to put in 14-18 hour days because we would not have to help the students produce a 140 lb complex machine in such a tight window. Looking at FRC as compared to Best we defiantly put in a less time ratio per lb.
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