Thread: Interesting story re: FRC1432 in Portland, OR's loss of school system support.
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Re: Interesting story re: FRC1432 in Portland, OR's loss of school system support.
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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol View Post
"Talking them out of it" and "explaining the commitment required" are two versions of essentially the same explanation. Perhaps there were teachers interested in helping, but when the administration explained the commitment the teachers were no longer that interested.
I'd like to point out Team 1432 has more than a dozen mentors, many of them engineering or programming mentors. The official "teacher" mentor would have been more of a formality. If they weren't interested in actually mentoring it probably wouldn't have been a problem.
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