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Originally Posted by brandon.cottrell
Would volunteering for a job like field reset or assistant MC (Jobs with minimal to no impact on the actual game), and scouting for teams at the event be considered non-GP?
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If you are asked for your opinion on robots based upon having been field side and seen a lot of matches, you should feel free to give your opinion and share in the scouting discussion. You should not be sitting down there with scouting sheets collecting data during matches.
I've volunteered a fair bit, both at events where I've been involved with 1 or more teams and at events where I've no connection to any of them. Since I've been on 2914, we've tried to provide 2 volunteers at every event we go to. They have mostly in positions like awards assistant, crowd control, field reset. I've been an FTA at events where I've had teams I've affiliation with, and I don't see any way around that anymore. I've been a mentor for 13
years now on 5 different teams and currently work with 7 different teams on a regular basis.
With the need for volunteers increasing as we move to more events, particularly when an area jumps to districts, people associated with a team will end up in positions where they could have a direct impact on a match. Something that I think is important to remember, however, is that all volunteers have a direct impact on the student experience, and the student experience is what I try to keep in the forefront of my decisions and actions, and I would hope all volunteers do as well.
Wetzel