Mentors

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally Posted by shyra1353

i think that my team does not know what they are getting themselves into .. i know that some of them are in it just to build the robot and not for the overall experience, and i am hoping that kickoff will change that ... but i do not want a Battlebots team because i am in it for the experience and not the robot ...
i dont want my team to "waste" a year because we do not have mentors ..

2001 our team was student run, very crazy stuff going on, a student who built a robot on his own, the rest of the team building a robot that didn't make it to the competition. National championship won that year.

2002 a lot of division and fighting.

2003 2 families teamed up to make sure the program didn't die. Lots more mentors showed up. Lots of wonderful huge steps for our team in so many many ways.

A student this year is so inspired by a mentor, that on his own he's pursuing the Woodie Flowers Award for the mentor. That mentor has inspired others on the team, to join in on the nomination.

I don't think it'll be a waste of a year for your team. It'll be part of the journey. It will be a learning experience. There was a rookie team last year that did beautifully with little mentorship. There was a rookie team that adamantly wanted no mentors and didn't do well.

We are experiencing mentors coming out of the woodwork excited to be a part of this whole experience.

2002 taught our team a lot, and gave us goals for 2003, springing us forward in giant leaps.

There are some words from Dean Kamen

about mentors