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Re: Mentors
Shyra,
#1 reason for mentors, KNOWLEDGE!!!!! As intellegent as I'm sure that your teammates are, they are going to get a serious slap in the face once build season comes and they need to build a robot from scratch. Without mentors, your team will be completely lost. I guarantee you that.
As for trying to convince them of this, I would say that you're definately in a tricky spot. You do have a couple of things going for you though. You said that you had a potential mentor with you the other day. My advice is to talk to those people that would consider mentoring your group, explain the situation to them, and see if they also have any ideas. Ask them to please understand the situation, and if they would be willing to hang on just a little bit longer until the team starts the build season and realizes how much they need the mentors. The only other thing is to talk to your team, and see if a team that's close to yours would be willing to have a, well, confrence with yours. A vetren team that would be willing to talk to your team and kind of tell them what the entire thing is like, and maybe put in a plug for mentors may convince them as well. I'm not sure where you're at, but if you need it, we're in south-east Michigan, and would be more than willing to help if you need it. Hope that helped!
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