Alumni Mentoring a rookie team... advice?

[Nikki Haux]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

I would advise that you sit down with the head coach/teacher/mentor on the team and discuss what the goals of the team are for that year.

Make it fun! Get these kids excited about being involved with FIRST so your team comes back stronger and larger for future seasons!

Celebrate the little things!

Give them a tour of other robots. See if a nearby FRC team wouldn't mind bringing over a robot for them to check out. At competitions, take them around the pit to as many robots as you can and show them something new with each robot! Make some friends in the process.

That really is great advice. Thank you very much for that. I think that setting goals for the team is going to be very different than my old team would have been. The coach for the team has never been involved in FIRST, nor have any of the students I believe, so I'm excited to see where they go.