Mentors

[shyra1353]

How do I convince my team that we need mentors ?? We had one come yesterday while building our EduBot (just to check our design and everything) and some of my team thought that it was pointless .. I realise that the EduBot is fairly simple to build but at the Canadian Kickoff there is an optional challenge for the teams to compete in to give us a slight idea of what the actual season is going to be like.

However yesterday a couple of the team members were complaining saying that we dont need a mentor and that we will do fine without them and things like that which make absolutely no sense. They have also said (in reference to the normal build season) that we only need mentors as guides and we can do everythign ourselves. I found this to be THE dumbest thing i have heard in a long time (and ive heard some pretty dumb stuff) because i know that we need mentors to help us.

we are a rookie team this year and i am the only on it who has ever been part of a FIRST competition. so i realize that they have a lot to learn about gracious professionalism and everything that comes with gracious professionalism, but to say that we dont need mentors, imo thats just plain stupid ...

so my question to you is this ... How did you convince your team that you need mentors and do you have any tips for me on how to do it ??