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Re: TEAM IS IMPLOIDING!!!

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Originally Posted by anonymous_robot View Post
...my team has lost sight or what FIRST and FRC is all about...

...our teams has gotten out of debt and made it to worlds for the first time in years...

...Team puts vaule in growing size...

...team has about 50 students with about 60% being freashmen...

Sounds like a healthy growing team to me. No signs of implosion anywhere.

I was a student on a team where students ran the team, and became a mentor of a team where adults take care of all the legal/prep work and train students.

The only thing I see wrong (and the only thing you should have any beef about) is that the mentors maybe aren't as hands on as you/I'd like them to be. Oh well. Graduate, become a mentor, run a team like you thing it should be ran. Each coaching staff has a unique way of running a team that not everyone might agree with. It's not a paid position. Mentors are 100% voluntary. Deal.

If you want to hear about a team actually imploding, a friend of mine was on a 20+ student team that ceased to exist because the lead teacher, the lead engineer, and the lead student couldn't agree on something and they all quit. No names.
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