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Originally Posted by Tom Line
We build a second robot. Our cad team is usually 4 or 5 students and a mentor. We have a build calendar that we've honed over time, but in reality there has never been a year that we follow it to a T. Every team needs a mentor who has a grasp of everything that is going on with the robot and knows when to break process and take a shortcut, or when to call it quits on a mechanism that showed promise but is proving problematic. That program lead mentor is the difference in a lot of good teams.
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Can you speak more on which responsibilities are given to the program lead mentor other than watching development and calling off progress on a mechanism? This is an interesting role that I never really see being talked about and would like to know more in depth about its proper usage.