Mentor Roles

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Originally Posted by hauki

If the build team is totally getting off track what should be the mentors role?

Try setting up a timeline with deadlines and encourage the students to meet those deadlines. This can be a useful skill for them to learn as well as keeping them on track so that they will have a finished robot at the end of the build season.

Originally Posted by hauki

Should I just let them fail and call it a learning experience? Is it my role to build the robot for them?

You can try to explain to them why you think that they might fail. No, building the robot for them is not your role, you should be working alongside one another. The purpose of a mentor is to teach the students how to do something, not to do that something for them. However just stepping back and allowing them to fail without providing guidance is also not the right approach either in my opinion, whether or not they choose to follow your advice is up to them.