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Re: To mentor or not to mentor, thats is the question
Being a mentor is hard work; doubly so as a college student. It's not something to enter into lightly. Make sure that you can spare the time and energy required to do so. You're making a commitment and you need to be able to keep that commitment. Failing to do so can damage your team. It can also damage your college career if you can't stay on top of your schoolwork.
Also, make sure you're doing it for the right reason. If all you want to do is build cool robots, then mentoring is the wrong thing for you. If you want to work with high school students, if you want to give them the same change you had, then mentoring might be right for you. Mentoring for the wrong reason is one of the worst things you can do for a team.
You might want to check out the presentation I gave at the Robotics Conference, it's CollegeFIRST under the Misc. section of the White Papers.
Matt
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