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Misty Dawn Misty Dawn is offline
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Re: Advice for teaching new students
We have a big team as well and lots of the new members want to program. We are running weekly programming classes now. We started in September - our 2 Lead Programming Mentors are teaching this class. This will also weed out any that decide they don't want to continue this sub-team later on.
Also, during the summer - our lead programmers take our robots home and hold programming classes during the summer for our up and coming programmers. This has been hugely successful!! Our past two years the top programmers attended the summer classes from the previous programmers and they were very grateful for the chance to see how their programming works with the actual robot. They had to learn to program the robot in multiple languages - we never know which one we will use -depends on the game, robot and the programmer.