The 6 Week Build Season and 'Mentor Burnout'

[Rich Kressly]

Originally Posted by Jared341

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When you only have 6 weeks of full robot access, losing a week or more because of any of these unfortunate, but very common, real-life situations is disastrous. <snip>

Jared,
There are very few people in FIRST I respect more than you, but I couldn't disagree more. I'm sure there are lots of other folks I really respect in FIRST who I disagree with on this issue as well.

I thought, at least at one time, that the situations you describe above were exactly WHY FIRST - more specifically FRC - existed to begin with. Don't people learn a LOT about themselves in these situations even if/when the robot doesn't win?

All,
Focusing on winning robots and focusing on the development of young leaders is NOT the same thing.

You know, there are teams out there that only meet 2-3 times a week with the six week build season. Some of them are turning out INCREDIBLE alumni in spite of "not keeping up with the Robot Jonses."

What's our goal?

namaste, all.