Virtual Team Forum

[Madison]

Originally posted by Ben Mitchell
I agree with Greg ^^^


I also think: why should college mentors be given special priority over "regular" mentors? Should we make separate awards for every "kind" of mentor?

I agree with Ashlee on this one: college students should not be separated from normal mentors, for all the reason's she described. Although an award is a nice incentive, it could also be a potentially dangerous one for students not being able to juggle school/themselves/FIRST at once.

The point is that they already are. College students, parents, and other non-engineer mentors are excluded, in writing, from eligibility for The Woodie Flowers Award. So, for as long as The Woodie Flowers Awards remains to recognize an outstanding engineer or teacher, the other people who give so much of their time to this program, college students, parents, and volunteers alike, all deserve that we take a moment and thank them. If someone does something exemplary for a team, or for the organization of FIRST, they deserve special recognition.

Like I said earlier, I didn't establish the precedent.

Furthermore, I think everyone's made the point that such an award should require that students successfully balance school, FIRST, and their other priorities.