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Re: Mentors level of power
During the 3 or 4 weeks before the kickoff we had a programming mentor teach our programming team how to work the camera. The other subteams relied on the veteran student leaders to train the newer members. Worked pretty well. And it helped us get a lot done.
The first week or so of the season our mentors will help us the students organize our ideas and come up with a general direction of what we wanted to do with our robot.
As time progressed our mentors would assist the team members when they worked so hard at a problem where they needed to have some help, but not at a point where they are doing the work them selves because this is really a program for the students involved.
The good news is by the time we got to the regionals the students on the team were doing nearly all of the work on the robot when it came to repairs.
I know there are teams that have mentors coach their teams. Theres nothing wrong with it at all, we all run differently than each other, but our team just feels that because the robot was built by the students it is the students job to coach our team to victory.
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RIP Fairport's Angels, 6/26/07
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