Advice about team environment and finding mentors

[EricH]

Originally Posted by 007norcalmember

Is having two faculty coaches a viable option (assuming funding from the school permits)? This might be a good additional step to look into.

I would say that that answer is yes, with a couple of caveats.
1) Two faculty coaches can work, but they don't necessarily have to be from the same school--check your school/district rules on that. This has a side benefit of more exposure either sideways (another high school) or to a feeder program (middle school--think FLL/FTC/VEX).
2) The faculty coaches should be on the same page with respect to administration interface and overall vision for the team, but should probably focus on different aspects of day-to-day team operation. Example, one focuses on shop operations (work done on the robot) and one focuses on logistics (making sure that X is in place Y when needed for reason Z--applies to students, mentors, robot parts, robots...), with either able to reasonably cover for the other.