Collaboration / Mentoring

[Joe J.]

I would say that mentoring is when a team HELPS another team whether it be with fund raising/sponsorship, team organization, machining, design advise, giving materials, even help start the other team. The way I think mentoring works is it's sort term, by this I mean that one team helps another team for a year to a few years then hopefully that mentored team will be well enough off to mentor their own team, and hopefully both teams can continue to be friends and help each other out when and if help is needed.


As for Collaboration I would say its when two or more teams WORK TOGETHER to improve BOTH teams, whether it be co-designing & building all or part of the robots, gaining sponsors that both teams share. I see collaboration as a long term situation, where the teams work together for most of their competition years. (I know some collaborations may only last a year or two) But for the most part it would seem that teams that collaborate would continue to do so, especially if it worked well for them.