Thread: FAHA: Pretending to Mentor a Team
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Re: Pretending to Mentor a Team
On the other hand, this year we volunteered to mentor a rookie team. Their advisor had indeed asked us to help them at the kickoff. Then when we tried to help them, they refused to tell us what they were working on. They refused to tell us where they needed our help claiming they didn't want to disclose their ideas to us. And when we invited them to come over and practice on our field, they never showed up after accepting the invitation and saying they would show up. The other side of this discussion is also that rookie teams must also understand the spirit of FIRST and gracious professionalism. We didn't use them on our chairman's award submission, but we honestly wanted to help them.