[techtiger1]

Mr.Baker and Sciguy may I say excellent posts and topic to bring up I like it. In my opinion FIRST teams need as many mentors in the technical fields as possible. People like Mr.Baker (45) and Raul from 111 are the very essence of FIRST the reason why it works so well. The robots without mentors would be boring and the kids would have no one to look up to and no one to guide them in building it. I know that on 1251 without our engineering and various other mentors we would not be able to make our robots and things we deisgn a reality. I think the engineering mentorship piece is critical to a team it shows them what the real world is like and how to deal with problems. Mentors are great I think the fact that they take so much time out and design with the kids really amazing robots is fantasic thanks to all of you out there.

My two cents,
-Drew