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Originally Posted by Boris5202
On a side note, does anyone have any experience on how they would go about replacing a terrible mentor that the team depends on? Any adult who just sat there during meetings and ordered for us the parts we needed would be better. We have evidence of multiple conflicts of interest for him, like when he tried to get us to funnel money we sorely need to his girlfriend's school. Also, we have thousands of dollars missing from the treasury which we can only guess what happened to it.
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Your first step here is to find additional mentors. While every team is organized a bit differently, we find that we work well with about a 7:1 team member to mentor ratio. We currently have a head coach, a utility mentor (officially programming, but I'm prone to wander), a programming mentor, a controls mentor, two mechanical mentors, a paperwork/logistics mentor, and a "mental health" mentor, in addition to a number of occasional mentors. A setup like this helps reduce burnout, as well.
As to that much missing money, that's not just bad mentoring, it's criminal. How you would pursue this issue would depend greatly on who actually owns the money -- a school, a 501 (c) (3), a partnership, or an individual.