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Adult coaches? What adult coaches?
Posted by Gui Cavalcanti at 04/13/2001 9:46 AM EST


Student on team #422, Mech Tech, from Governor's School (GSGIS) and Verizon.


In Reply to: Re: What are you saying?!?!
Posted by Chris Orimoto on 04/12/2001 2:52 PM EST:



All of you are talking so much about how adult coaches aggravated you in the alliance stations and how they took over your robot.. well, follow team 422's example; don't deal with it at all. Well, that can be taken in a bad way, so I'll explain myself...

Team 422 had mentors, not coaches. We're just 20 students who wanted to be in the FIRST competition, and we worked diligently. Not once did I ever have any adult review my program for me (being one of two programmers, the other was mainly electrical engineering instead of programming). Our mechanical guys would think up designs (students), get to work, sawing and cutting, and build a chassis. Sometimes our mentors helped us immensely, but they virtually never touched the robot; they would stand over our shoulders while soldering to point out different things, suggesting ideas to mechanical while they were cutting things, and other ideas like that. Sure, they cut things for us sometimes, but they didn't finish the robot for us!

What I'm saying is this is mainly a student effort; I'm all for adult involvement, just limit it to mentoring if you can.

-Gui Cavalcanti

Team 422 - Mech Techs
Richmond Virginia

PS: All this may have to do with the fact that we only had 3 engineers with us at any one time, but that's OK. We love them all the same.

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