Thread: Mentor Involvement
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Unread 02-03-2009, 12:09
JaneYoung JaneYoung is offline
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Re: Mentor Involvement
I like and promote the 'side-by-side, we're in this together' partnership between students and professional mentors.

When I am talking to teams and working with them, that is always a part of what I strive to impart. When I am helping rookie teams develop their organizational foundation, that is what I emphasize.

The respect that can grow within the mutual partnership will sustain the team and open the doors to opportunities for the students that they would have no awareness of otherwise. It also opens those doors to the community and to the FRC program. We see that continually in our Hall of Fame teams and in the teams that strive for that honor.
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