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Re: Incorporating Alumni within FRC Teams

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Originally Posted by Jessica Boucher View Post
I have more often than not seen this done extremely poorly, where it causes more problems than good. College age mentors are eager to show their worth in their new role, and providing very little scope as to the position but calling them "junior" or "training" builds great animosity between the post-HS members of the team.
Oh I totally can see where the concept of "junior" mentors can get derailed extremely quickly. However, I've been in situations though where I had young (18-19 year old) mentors on a team who one year earlier were 12th Graders in high school and as an older mentor its like having an extra student on the team at times. Maybe its a bad title, but there is a transition period between a student and a mentor and a team's leadership should be aware of that.

On a slightly related topic, I've had numerous instances with a rookie teams where a younger high school student is put into a leadership role and they really flourish with it.

Long story short, age is a bad metric for measuring anything.
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