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Originally Posted by Adam Freeman
I know FIRST is for inspiring students, but us adults also live for this stuff as well.
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Side note - I'm as much if not more inspired by what students can do and what a community can do than students are. I completely agree.
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Originally Posted by Adam Freeman
...is seeing the driver's and coaches arguing on the field...the coach/driver relationship there needs to be clear definition that the coach is responsible for...Strategy, positioning, who to defend, how/when to score, etc... When it's student to student, their is a possible power struggle that can play out during the match
I can see the entire field and know what else is happening....since it all falls on me.
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All the things you mentioned, how amazing would it be if a group of 14-18 year olds were capable of working this out themselves. My argument for a student coach, is allowing a student to learn all of those things you do as an adult coach. Imagine, if we could get a group of students to look at a match they lost because of one person making a call, but yet be there to support each other. If those exact skills you mentioned were to be learned by a student....how powerful would that be?
At the end of the day, and this is where many may disagree, it's about what is learnt and not about who wins. If my team were to lose a quarterfinal match and come back to me, talked it out in front of me, what went wrong, what each other needs to do, go in for a team high five, and get back out there <- that's worth more than a million world championships.
As a mentor who got to hold a blue banner for the first time ever, the banner represents my students ability to work under 6 hrs of pressure to re-build their kitbot, the ability of a 13 year old kid to go talk to people 4 or 24 years older than him and dictate what strategy we were going to play and the countless number of emails over the span of 3 days requesting times for meetings sitting in my inbox.