[jgerstein]

We've had great technical mentors with a wide range of backgrounds. We've had some great engineers work with the team. We've also had a handyman, a variety of parents who build things in their garage for fun, and even a parent with no technical background who hung around the build team so much she accidentally learned to build robots.

With that said, I absolutely welcome mentors who want to come in and help on the technical side without prior experience. Personally, my expectation would be that I (and other mentors) would help them, but they'd have to be responsible for taking the initiative to learn new things.