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Re: Max Age for FRC Participants?

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As others have pointed out, other than a few very specific rules, there is a choose your own adventure on design, build, programming, scouting with a lot of different systems that work for different people.
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The internal structure of your team is up to you. I know there are some teams that draw distinctions between "junior mentors" and "senior mentors," with the latter consisting of college students and team alumni. Perhaps such a structure could work for your team if you draw in local 18-24 year olds.
Basically a lot of the current models I see for the program are around having other older members as mentors which I am trying to steer away from. More of treating it as an odd duck of an apprenticeship (to a degree) is the closer model I think.

Maybe there is space for putting a bit more thought into this as we compete through this year. I feel as though I have bitten off enough to chew on for a rookie campaign. Thinking this is more of a 3 year stretch goal.

I will take the written policy angle to heart as we get things rolling into the future.

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Kaurich,
You are too old to drive a FIRST Robot. *
You haven't seen me drive... it is a scary experience

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*As a mentor when Mike was a student, I believe I can take a poke at him...
This is a fair assumption.
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