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Re: Looking for some brutally honest feedback...

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Originally Posted by HonestAnonymous View Post
  1. Do you have seniors who do a lot of the work on the team?
  2. Do your mentors do a large chunk of the robot work?
  3. How involved are the majority of students on your team? Do they do a lot of the work, or do mentors?
  4. Do your students learn more by themselves or more from other students and mentors?
Our team is a REALLY small team. The requirements to be on the team are more demanding than an average high school, considering it is run through a vocational school that is combined by the three small high schools in our county. Since you have to attend the vocational school in our CAD, Engineering, or Precision Machining classes to be on the team, it is hard for some students to be on there. Especially when most students can't take a vocational class here until they are at least a sophomore, usually a junior. We only have around 10 students (MAYBE) with 5 mentors (One being an FRC alumni that competed in 2015 and 2016 that is now in college helping out.)

1. We actually only have one senior on our team this year, and he helps when he can. Our team has 2 freshman, 3 sophomores, 4 juniors (2 returning), and the single senior (returning). He is very interested in the robot and how it works, but he usually stays to himself.

2. The mentors on our team usually only do things that the students don't know how to do yet and teach the students along the way so they don't have to ask again. They do it for themselves after they learn.

3. Refer to 1 and 2. Our students are involved until they don't know how to do something.

4. I rarely have seen a student learn by themselves unless it was through research they have done. Our college mentor was one of the only kids that came through our program that ALMOST learned how to program by himself, and it was through LabView. He did a lot of trial and error, and in turn is trying to teach the current students how to code the 2017 robot now.

I will say that our group lacks drive and determination that some other teams do. But only because we rarely see funding to get to District Champs. Our students love what they are doing, but fail to see the bigger picture sometimes.
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