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Originally Posted by Steve W
As for students that are 18 or 19, you are still students and not mentors. Once you are no longer a student at the school and you return to help THEN you become a mentor. This is common sense.
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I'm still waiting for this to be cleared up. I'm not trying to look at every single angle and totally shoot FIRST down, I'm just going by what I see. FIRST says "A Team Mentor is defined as any adult, 18 or older, who works directly with youth on a FIRST Robotics Competition or FIRST LEGO League team."(
The Policy) As I'm seeing it, this means that
anyone who is over 18 years of age needs to have a background check. Think about it: Yeah, I'm still a high school student but I am 18 years old. I still have contact with minors that are 14, 15, 16, 17 years old. What's to say that a student who is 18 will act any differently than someone the same age who is out of high school. The law is the law. Once you are 18, you are legally an adult - high school student or not.
Hopefully, FIRST will give us some clarification on this soon.