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Originally posted by Jgreenwd1
I was wounding what teams are going to help mentor next year?
And i would like to know how much fun it was to mentor a team? (from those who are mentoring a team this year)
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It is actually listed in the FIRST place about what teams are willing to adopt a team, or veterans willing to mentor a team, etc... At:
http://www.usfirst.org/2001comp/Mentoring/
There are some mentoring guides, and give you the person to contact if your team is asking for mentoring... Well, I know your team doesn't need mentoring, but it's nice if rookie teams will go to that place and look for mentoring teams.
Mentoring a team is actually a lot of fun. Mentors usually have a lot of FIRST experience already, so they have a lot of useful information to share with the team members. At the beginning I had to try to get to know the new students, but eventually I got to work with a lot of them, and they started to pay attention to my advises. It is really satisfying because I got to give back something I learned from the team; some of the members actually look up to you for that.
I got a lot more freedom when I became kind of a mentor to the team... I got to help out who ever I want, and people usually come looking for you for opinions...
It's a really enjoyable experience, but at the same time, it is really time consuming...