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Originally Posted by M3NT0R
I think this is what exactly what I'm dealing with. People that want to help but can't. The solution to my problem lies to how to convince or get these adults to help.
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If people are resistant to helping because of time commitment, try to find smaller chunks of work that they can be responsible for. Of course you need more mentors to share the load.
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Originally Posted by M3NT0R
I think this combined with the above may help. Thinking about it, I jump into the meeting and after an initial team meeting, run off to help whatever student, and this leaves the other mentors to kind of pick-up..whatever. I guess it's easier for me to jump in, and not as easy for them. So...I think we've come a bit full circle with OP. How can I get these mentors to get out of their shell? Maybe having them and I work together with a group of students, so they can feed off of whatever I'm doing?
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If you have enough people you can have one person who is "in charge" and other people who hover around helping students wherever they can. When I started mentoring I was introduced to the software team and initially I felt a bit useless since I had never been exposed to any of the team's code or any of the wpilib stuff. It ended up being a good fit that I mentored a ninth grader who was new to the team and new to programming in general. The lead software mentor would say "figure out X" and we would learn together how to do it.