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I would certainly support limiting the pits to one or two mentors per team. That would ensure a certain mentor/student ratio just because one-two people are rarely enough to do everything that needs to be done...
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I see what you are saying but some teams do it very differently from others. Some teams have mentors do most of the work so the mentors have to be there to fix the robot. Other teams only have students in the pits.
My team rarely has more than one mentor in the pit at one time, sometimes none at all. We made buttons for people in the pit and we only made 6 so if you didn't have a button you couldn't come in the pit. The 6 people were the 4 students on drive team and two students who were best at quick repairs.
On another note: I think mentors should do hardly any work, they should show the students how to do it and let the students do it themselves. Students can't learn if they are not doing it themselves or at least doing it with a mentor.