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Re: What Contributes the Most to a Team's Success?
My team is 100% student everything. And I still think that mentors are the most important factor. Without mentors a team will end up like mine. having literally no continuity between seasons, essentially being a rookie every season.
Mentors are also what guide the students. Even if the students build the robots completely, they need a mentor to show them how to make a robot or do anything. You simply cannot learn what is never taught. A few students are self-starters and who can learn on there own, however FIRST is about inspiring the kids who wouldn't be able to do it on there own. Thus for a team to truly be a success it needs mentors.
Students come and leave but mentors and teachers stay with the team. My team's history goes back only until 2008, and that is only because me and one other student have been on it that long, otherwise it goes back until 2009, and then 2010 once those students graduate. Thankfully, we have mentors now, so hopefully team 691 will be around for a while after me and the other student leaders leave.
A great student member exists for at most 5-6 years, a mentor doesn't have a set amount of time with the team.
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 "You students are at the top of the mountain, at the pinnacle of success, and what is it that you do?
You become the future guides to help others climb the mountain."
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