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Originally Posted by Advice
Thanks for the replies so far, but without getting into specifics how do we get the mentors to open up to more ideas when they won't entertain any?
If the students end up successfully prototyping a new to us drive train or other design feature this off-season, and the mentors dismiss it out of hand again next year, it will crush the students. Especially, since the mentors are not able to work on it in the off-season.
This thread isn't asking how successful your team is or has been, it is asking for help getting mentors to try new things.
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The core of your problem: it appears your team is mentor run rather than student run. While no team can be truly led entirely by students because they don't have the institutional investment and breadth of resource knowledge, having students drive the decision making and prototyping is important. Even just saying "student led" even if it's not true give them a legitimate voice on par with the mentors. So this sounds like a structural governance problem that you need to address on the team. Until you take that step I don't think we can give you much useful advice.