This is only my second year being involved with First and overall my experience as a mentor has been great.
But I would like to point out what I think could be the ugliest part of my experience.
We competed in 2007 at Pittsburgh, Palmetto and the Championship. So far this season at Pittsburgh and will compete at Palmetto and the Championship. We have been very fortunate to have mostly females on our team and this is where the ugliness comes in, the language that I hear in the pits is unbelievable, I have went to team mentors and ask team to watch their teams language, I have went to the pit announcers and had them make announcements about watching language, but this weekend in Pittsburgh I noticed it is not just the young members but many of the mentors that are using bad language in the pits where not only female members are located and working but families with young children are walking and looking.
I strongly think that FIRST needs to address this issue and I wanted others opinions.
Thanks
K-Dawg
Team 2237