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Originally Posted by Nemo
Example adult decision: mentor leader decides it's time to end wide open prototyping and pick a robot concept and throw all resources at that one robot design. That's a decision that might be imposed by an adult leader, possibly over the protests of students who still want to prototype the next idea and the next one after that. But it might be the right call for the team. I'd argue that a team is generally going to be more successful and satisfied with their experience if a mentor assumes some decision making authority to keep the team on track during the build season.
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Yes, I agree, this is definitely a good time for a mentor to step in. The mentor can make the decision that prototyping needs to wrap up, and a design choice needs to be made. I just don't like the idea of a mentor making that design choice.