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Originally Posted by Steve Shade
Mentors provide a great deal more than the tools and knowledge of building a robot. Transferable Skills like networking, teamwork, project management, and problem solving are just a few.
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Heh. You said it!! Last year was our teams rookie year and our team had no mentors. We were more or less a student run team. We were fortunate in that each of us was strong in some area or another and we more or less had no trouble with the technical side of things, but we were totally lost. We were lost not because of a lack of technical knowledge(not to say there isn't a lot we could have learned), but rather because of a loss of management knowledge. None of us had ever overseen or managed anything, and we were clueless in this area.