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Re: Percentage of Work Done by Students.

FIRST as an organization makes it so that every choice the team makes is totally up to the team. Therefore, each team is different when it comes to placing control in the hands of the mentors. While a student might learn a lot with 100% student built robot, they would learn even more if they worked with a mentor on a robot. On my team, we use a kind of 'board of directors'- 3 students and 2 mentors who make final decisions on the robot. People from the team can voice their opinions to this group who then choose. Actual physical construction occurs with about 80% student:20% mentor. We seperate our team into different sub-groups, with one or two mentors per 5-7 students. They will tehn show the students how to create the parts if they don't know how, and in general just help them. While I agree that 100% mentor-robots are not the best, I also think that 100% student robots are not the best. Students need examples from the mentors in order to learn.
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