Thread: Responsibilities of a Mentor
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Unread 12-05-2008, 01:21
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Re: Responsibilities of a Mentor
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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
I understand the sponsor's questioning, but I also have to ask: Is he seeing the goal of FIRST correctly? Are we all seeing that goal correctly? If he sees it as a "student-run robotics competition", then I think he sees incorrectly. Dave Lavery said something during Kickoff about teams without mentors missing out.
EricH,
This may not be the one you were thinking of but it addresses some of this discussion.
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