Convincing athlete to commit to robotics?

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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

You have options. As others mentioned, perhaps you could change some team meeting times. My thought is that you should recruit new team members, or encourage other existing team members to come more often, so that you will get more than 2.7 people at a meeting.

It is tough/nearly impossible to change the meeting times because our one and only mentor has a family to take care of. The time we meet currently is what works best for him. We would, of course, like another mentor(preferably a mentor with professional engineering experience), but living in a town of 400, it is much easier said than done.

The student is our most experienced mechanical builder so it is like have a Senior mechanical engineer leave a company and have to fill the void with entry level engineers. We will likely have two more committed members next year so that would probably bring the average to about 4.3, but these members need training so who would be better to teach them then our most experienced mechanical member?

From what I have talked to him over the past couple of weeks, he keeps mentioning how excited he is for the next build season challenge. But yes, I agree that whatever he has more passion for, he should go and do.