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Originally Posted by Zebra_Fact_Man
If I could share my experiences for those that are thinking about it, I would advise against mentoring the team you were a student on. You will not be viewed as a mentor by your peers (neither the hs students or the other mentors) and will honestly not have the impact that you would have in another team. Everyone will know you as one of the team-members, and will continue to treat you as such.
I'd also recommend taking a year off to get started in the right direction, but if you must mentor, pick a new, local team that you have no prior affiliation with. If you want to go back to your old team once most of the students have cycled through, that should be fine.
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Our team feared this happening, and for returning alum that are wanting to mentor we started a mentor group that we called mini me's.
That is they are shadowing the mentor in whatever mentor subset they want to perhaps move forward in, wether that be programming, business, build/design.
We are still a young team and have gotten our first few alum back this year. The hope is to keep the interest, and involvement in first but without all the pressure of being a full on mentor.
Plus let's face it there is a learning curve to being a mentor. I know I am still learning