Mentors, Mentorship, and more

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The MIT Mentorship Initiative and Kell Robotics has just posted 15 new videos for your enrichment, here

Several well known persons inside the FIRST community talk about growing up, their mentors, the students they work with and more. Such as going in the swamps, building race cars, and even a little bit about some of the thought processes that the Game Design Committee uses when designing robotics challenges. There is some history about the early years of FIRST, and more.

Initially the footage was shot with the intent of producing something, but a decision was made to to present the interviews nearly uncut. The good news is there is nearly no editorial filtering of comments. But that leaves you with over 3 hours of interviews.

Enjoy the interviews. There are a lot of interesting stories. They are not TED talks. ( maybe they are 'ED' talks )....

All this footage was shot in April 2010. Apologies to all for not getting it out sooner.