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Re: When do mentors go too far?
I completly agree that mentor involvement is crucial to any team. Without mentors I would have never have learned how to design a good wiring or pneumatics system for our robot. When mentors are serving as teachers and advisers to the students who then experiment and use that knowlege that they have gained from the mentor to build the robot, that is what I belive to be the spirit of FIRST on the robot side. Mentors do a lot of behind of scenes work like planning for the regionals and other things that most students have no involvement with. I'm not saying that that is a bad thing, students should learn organizational skills as well. I am more strictly speaking from the robot side of things, the Toy Train analogy by the previous poster seems to sum up best what I am trying to get across about the robotics experience.
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