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Where can I go to get some of these students with initiative???!!!

My problem as a mentor is motivation and getting the students to do anything. We typically have 10-15 total students on the team. 2 or 3 at the most are even vaguely interested in acknowledging (much less learning) any kind of basic engineering concepts that are necessary to build an effective robot. The vast majority just want to hook something together and hope it works, while having a good time jacking around with their friends.

Do the mentors just sit back and let the team turn into a social club with a robot that will go around the track and little else?

Do you work with the 1 or 2 students who really want to do this and let them carry the rest of the team?

What are some good methods of getting students to show some more initiative?