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Originally Posted by waialua359
We often felt like we were Team 842 in many ways with respect to the hardships, socio-economic background of our community and focuses early on in our program. We went through a long period of not having an engineering mentor on our construction team as well (I dont count myself as an engineer even with the degree). Our only engineering mentors today are young former students with respect to designing and building the robots with our students.
Team 842 provides many examples of how to build your program with great successes vs. the amount of resources they had to work with.
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Wow, I walked right into that. Yes, of course, you guys too! I feel like we need a place to aggregate all these incredible stories, both to help people understand different philosophies about mentorship/sponsorship, and so that we can be inspired by the all different rocky roads to success.
And you know, so I don't ignore HoF teams who are literally on an island and just posted about it.
I don't know much about the exact mentor/student relationship on most HoF or otherwise elite teams, but between the 842 story, Hawaiian Kids, and 103 (who
literally started the FIRST rural support network), there must certainly be a lot of amazing underdog stories out there. It's hard to argue that a great team with an
awesome robot that won every regional it went to might be getting something handed to them when said arm would have to be 2500 miles long.