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Re: Mentoring as a College Freshman
If possible, take a break. Join an SAE team or other collegiate-level engineering competition. It will broaden your horizons, offer new challenges, sharpen certain professional skills that FRC doesn't, and introduce you to a new set of people. FIRST and FRC are great, but they're not the end-all be-all of engineering competitions.
When you finish college, then start being a coach. It will make the transition from student to mentor easier (you won't be coaching students who were your peers the year before) and you'll have a better, bigger set of skills and a fresh perspective.
This does not preclude staying involved in smaller ways, but I would recommend against being a full-fledged coach during college. But not for time/course load reasons.
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Last edited by JamesCH95 : 07-04-2014 at 09:49.
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