17-03-2016, 22:02
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6th Gear Developer; Mentor
AKA: Blake Ross
no team (6th Gear)
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: May 2006
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Virginia
Posts: 1,934
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Re: Becoming Competitive
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Originally Posted by Ichlieberoboter
Yeah! We found a new teacher at our town's elementary school with prior experience as a FIRST mentor to help us out next year. We also have a parent that is an engineer that wants to help out, a college student that was previously a programmer from a different team, another ex-FIRST mentor from another team, and 5 alumni that said they will try to help out if they can next year. We've been looking for a lot of mentors because this is obviously really important. We're looking at getting enough members next year to split into sub-teams and having at least one mentor per sub-team.
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If you get a chance, trade the Engineer(s) for a good shade-tree mechanic and a machinist. 
Best wishes for your team's future. Infect as many people as you can with your attitude, and remember that it's a marathon, not a sprint.
Blake (An engineer)
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Blake Ross, For emailing me, in the verizon.net domain, I am blake
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