What are your Mentor Experiences?

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As a student on my frc team I mentored an fll team for 3 years and really enjoyed doing it. I would assist the kids with whatever I could whether it was listen to project ideas and presentations or help them program and create a robot. My experience there helped me become a future mentor for frc because it taught me patience which is huge. It took the kids a while to do things and rather then do it for them (big no no in my book) and let them spin there wheel then offer my advice on how to overcome a problem that I offered never made them use. It was a really rewarding experience seeing how even only helping a student alittle made such a big difference.

Now my experience mentoring experience after I graduated from high school. I decided to pay it forward to another team instead of helping my old team (they have enough help). This team I knew going in didn't have nearly as many resources or knowledge. I went in expecting the worse and was pleasantly surprised. I saw the dedication of the team members and that all they need was some guidance. I then would assist them with decision makong and designing of there robot by helping them talk it out and with the exicution of things. I'm glad I decided to mentor them cause I got to see a total different style of work that I never got from my team it helped me to grow up and learn even more about patience. I highly recommend mentoring if you have the time.