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Re: Incorporating Alumni within FRC Teams
One of our alumni who graduated in 2006 is now a Warren City Schools teacher, a Warren City Councilman, and is poised to take over the Team 48 lead teacher role at Harding High School. It's fun when your team (and you) get ancient enough to see this happen.
We also have a number of other alumni from that era mentoring the team. A 2012 alumnus has applied to come back home from Kettering and get a mechanical engineering job at Delphi (who wants to bring in more FIRST alumni as interns and employees - yins all come work at the Champion Technical Center in Warren - 48 and some other local teams could use the help!). Many of our most recent college-age alumni still attend kickoff, go to our competitions over their breaks, and assist with scouting and pit crew support.
I'm all for the youth mentor movement on the team. It encourages a team to re-evaluate old (like reallllllly old) practices and consider fresh new ideas. I also think having more younger mentors on the team can be good for student recruiting.
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Travis Hoffman, Enginerd, FRC Team 48 Delphi E.L.I.T.E.
NEOFRA / Delphi E.L.I.T.E. FLL Regional Partner
Last edited by Travis Hoffman : 19-04-2016 at 17:48.
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