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Re: Responsibilities of a Mentor

(This response really ought to have been sent as a Private Message, but Sunshine has chosen not to receive PMs. Apologies to everyone else for making you read it.)

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Originally Posted by Sunshine View Post
Where did that come from? He never said that students can do a job as good or better than professionals when building a robot.
Actually, he did:

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Originally Posted by Kelly View Post
Ideally, the students would have been so heavily involved with building the robot, they know how to fix it better than the mentors...We already know that professional engineers can build robots. What's really culture changing is when kids can do it for themselves. (and they can, when the mentors step back)
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I'll have nothing to do with this passive involvement of the students.
Whether or not you intend it, you're coming across as overly defensive. Like "CommanderRachek", you're arguing against a position that nobody here has promoted.
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