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Re: Mentor Roles
This year is my second year mentoring a FRC team (first year mentoring my alma mater that I was on in 2013). I have found a unique analogy from one of my classes that I TA'ed in college where my professor (Dr. Corson) said, "Think of it like a ride at Disney Land, you're the track and the students are the car. They can move freely about (within reason), but the track prevents them from getting too far off."
And for me, it has been kind of hard to step back and let the students run the team, but I feel like I am slowly transforming from a mentor that likes to do hands-on stuff to a mentor that is more of a facilitator and provides guidance and suggestions while letting the students use their skills to solve the problem.
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