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Originally Posted by rich2202
In your case, you saw a hole (students not doing it), and filled the need. You mentioned: "very little interaction from the students (even tough I offered)." Did you "offer" or "recruit"? I can see during Build Season that everyone wants to be on the robot, and not doing other stuff.
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As far as the offer/recruit thing goes: I tried getting a few different students to help me with tablet setup, going over some minor android code (for the ones with some programming experience), and looking into how some calculations should be done. I had their attention for the day that I invited that person to help, they never showed continued interest so I didn't push it. when I was a student I was pot on committees I didn't want to be on, and I didn't do my best work when I didn't really want to help. The last thing I wanted was to stifle the students' fun and enthusiasm.
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Originally Posted by rich2202
Note: Going from Student to Mentor is similar to going from a worker to a manager. Your role now is to get the workers to do the work, and you step back and supervise/guide the activity.
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This is a great analogy, I think you hit the nail on the head with this one.
Thanks for the replies,
Skye