This topic comes up year after year or something about college mentoring. I would suggest taking a look at this thread (
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=47004) as it will show you the insight of many college mentors whether they joined different teams or continue mentoring their high school team. My experience as a mentor while a college student was for the 2006 and 2007 season with 1747. In 2006 I will say our mentors at times had issues in certain situations keeping the appropriate mentor behavior at times. While the next year with more defined positions this was much easier to maintain the mentor student relationship. Well as for your question about being accepted as mentors had more of an issue with the teacher at the time accepting out college mentors as mentors however this problem with fixed in 2007
I would have to saying going back to your high school team really depends on you and your team. My only suggestion is that you try to figure out your role before you start to mentor I know that made the job of all of the college mentors easier
One plus about being a college mentor is when all the parents are asleep you still have some energy to finish the robot at 4am.
A college mentor can be a great asset to the team and can be an amazingly rewarding experience.