What constitutes Mentoring another team?

[JohnChristensen]

I may be a little conservative, but I really don't think most of what gets called mentoring in the FIRST community is really mentoring (speaking team to team mentoring). If the line between where your team ends and their team begins is getting blurry then I think you have crossed the line into mentoring. I had a local rookie coach last year call me with her questions throughout the build season, the team even brought their robot to our shop to use our bridge before bag and tag. I never considered this interaction mentoring. Did my team offer advice when needed, parts when in need, and shop time? Yes, but I don't think we mentored them, this was gracious professionalism.