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Originally Posted by southbend
For those of you, mentors, with shops - Does your school and or district support you with machinery, hand tools etc. to aid in building and teaching students real world skills?
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Back when we first started up and were working in one of the high schools, the district reimbursed us for most of our hand tools and many/some of our standing power tools. We also shared equipment from the physics department (unsurprising since we worked in a physics room supervised by a physics teacher) and sometimes the wood shop. We continue to have access to a wood shop at our new location, though there's no money or equipment changing hands any more.
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Originally Posted by southbend
I am noticing a trend in students needing to be micro-management, more than i've ever noticed previously. Is this due to the fast paced world of FIRST or is it a trend in society?
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Depends on the students. I've had to micro-manage a decent number of new--and sometimes less new--students. However, a good amount of that took place while I was also a student. By and large we like to have them ask questions on their own, preferably of other students--unless of course it's a safety concern. That said, people handle different management styles in different ways, and that itself isn't such a bad skill to learn.