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Re: The 6 Week Build Season and 'Mentor Burnout'

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Originally Posted by Bob Steele View Post
Invest your off season time... gain support from somewhere...find people who want to volunteer... make them part of your team... Time spent doing this will solve so many problems that you have..

What you are doing is incredibly interesting and it has great value.. and its a great deal of fun for mentors and students alike... let it shine... make it loud... reap the benefits... How many times have you heard
" I wish they had a program like this when I was in school..."
Well NOW they can be in this program....

Don't just say " Our team has no mentors.... we can't find any more"...go out and tell people about your team... you will find supporters... once you have a few... getting more will be easier and easier...

The one thing you can't do is just sit back and wait for them to appear.
Or expect someone else to do it for you.

Make it happen...
I've been doing this for years, with mixed success. I'm not sure that the vast majority of people appreciate what living twenty miles from a stoplight really means in terms of running an FRC team.
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