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Re: Why do teams voluntarily do FIRST without adult technical mentors?

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Originally Posted by Greg McCoy
Even though I consider myself a hands-on person, I'm much more inspired by watching/helping an engineer build a robot than I am by an engineer handing me a kit of parts and a machine shop and saying "have at it."
Again, neither is a good situation, but I think entirely student run is the lesser of two evils.
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