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Originally Posted by Gdeaver
I think any adult involved in First should take a minute and go look up the definition of Mentor and the origin of the word. Then if you see it as I do this poll is unanswerable.
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I concur wholeheartedly. On our team, the students join for different reasons: some want to do the building, some want to do the designing. The mentors are there to make sure everyone's safe, and to help out when called upon. But other teams have other priorities. It all boils down to what FIRST is for. In my opinion, it's to inspire the students. If that means mentor designed/student built, then that is the correct way. If it means student designed/mentor built, then that is the correct way. To me, the only wrong way is if the mentors do both, because then it becomes their project, and not the students', which is NOT the purpose of FIRST.