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Re: Incorporating Alumni within FRC Teams

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Originally Posted by Conor Ryan View Post
Some teams have "Junior Mentors", for recent alumni that are under 21. Its good practice to separate recent alums from high school students for a variety of reasons.

Holy Cows do this and describe it pretty well in their team handbook.
I will half-disagree here. When done well, this is a great idea. I read through the Cows' section on it and really appreciate how well thought out the scope of their role is. If I could fault them for anything, it would be a lack of criteria as to how someone gets promoted. Is it an evaluation at age 21? Is there an annual evaluation to show gaps as to where the jr mentor can improve? What are the criteria that they are being evaluated on? This structure is super important for a young mentor to grow.

I have more often than not seen this done extremely poorly, where it causes more problems than good. College age mentors are eager to show their worth in their new role, and providing very little scope as to the position but calling them "junior" or "training" builds great animosity between the post-HS members of the team.
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