[Rick Vogl]

The mentor bot is scheduled like any other robot as one of the alliance partners in the qualification matches. Team mentors sign up as the drive team on a first come - first served basis for each match. The drive team will get a quick five minute training session on how to operate the robot before the match begins. It can be quite comical at times. Driving and operating these robots while trying to play the game is hard!

We are not allowed to compete in the eliminations but usually on of the teams does try to pick us. I'm proud to say that there have been years where we were not the bottom seed in the qualification rounds.

We usually have a student or two on the team to help out with instructions or repairs. We even have a mascot.