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Originally Posted by mgurgol
Wouldn't it be great if you mentored a student coach instead of coaching yourself?
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I was a student, which is really the foundation of the argument I was building.
I was going to stay involved with engineering whether I was the field coach or not. Looking back, it was "fun" and all, but what did I really get out of it? It has occurred to me quite recently that mentoring speeds the development of skills (technical, soft, whatever..) at a much faster rate than students trying to learn things on their own. There's a reason classes have teachers and students are not just handed books or thrown into their field to "figure it out".
Unfortunately our team missed out on a great opportunity to "learn from the pros" because we did student-centric things like insisting on having a student field coach.