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Re: Need help introducing new lead mentor to FRC
Two suggestions
1) Ask if he is willing to be the nominal lead mentor, but actually spend a year shadowing someone else on the team who can be his mentor during that year. Wise first lieutenants listen carefully to their sergeants.
2) Introduce him to STEM robotics (FIRST and non-FIRST). Then describe how FRC in general, and your FRC team in particular, fits into the full big picture. Folks who learn things in the opposite order often have to spend way too much time unlearning upside-down misconceptions that can foul up a teacher's effectiveness. That unlearning process is usually a big waste of time and energy. I know it was for me.
Blake
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