Posted by Andy Baker at 05/24/2001 10:46 AM EST
Engineer on team #45, TechnoKats, from Kokomo High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
In Reply to: Another meaningful post from Ken- Thanks
Posted by Carolyn Duncan on 05/24/2001 9:14 AM EST:
Carolyn,
Wow... your situation sounds pretty tough. Kudos to you for sticking with it and wanting to be a mentor for next year.
Believe it or not, we mentors learn from you students also. We're human, and we make mistakes. Hopefully, your team's mentors learn and improve like we all strive to do.
The FIRST Competition puts all teams in pressure situations. Students and mentors sometimes say things that they regret sometimes and it's unfortuneate. Sometimes, the wiser person is the student.
I know I've learned from students over the past years, especially on the subject of team organization and increased levels of student involvement... mostly from students who post on this site.
As for posting and "networking" with other teams, we encourage our students to get to know other teams, and post on sites like this one. But, we always remind them that they represent their team, school and Delphi. Also, I remind them that whatever they post, it will always be "out there" for the world to see... so use GP as much as possible. A few of our students do post here, but I'd like to see more.
Try to get to know more of us mentors, we're not all that bad... some are kinda cool also.
Andy B.