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View Poll Results: What is your team organization like?
My team is governed by a single adult figure. 19 15.83%
My team is not governed by a single adult figure. 53 44.17%
Our team is (in my opinion) student run. 67 55.83%
Our team is (in my opinion) adult run. 45 37.50%
I would like my team to be more student run than it currently is. 39 32.50%
I would like my team to be more mentor run than it currently is. 13 10.83%
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Re: Team Governance

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Originally Posted by Not2B
YES! I am a MENTOR. Not a chaperone. I am busy all day, I don't want to deal with the stupidity that may or may not go on at night. I'm flying to Atlanta, and the students are going by bus. Besides, I might see something as a cool physics experiment, where a chaperone might see someone dropping pop cans down the stair wells.
Hmmm.. I have held off replying to this post for several days. I am really hoping that you did not intend this post to come across sounding the way I am interpreting it. But I can't ignore this. Are you saying that because you are a "mentor" you are not part of the team? That you are not responsible for the students you are supposedly mentoring? I am assuming that you are an engineering "mentor" and do not feel that you should be involved in team issues other than those that involved the robot. (Please correct me if I am wrong in my assumptions). Are other teams set up this way?
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Which brings me to another point. We have a great group of parents that formed a Booster Club for the team. They call themselves the RPMs. Robotics Parents and Mentors. (Cute, huh?) They help out a huge amount. I don't even like thinking about the days before they came to be.

However you organize, a strong parents group is always a good addition. Our's helps with food, travel, fundraising, dues, overall organization, and I think it helps all parents feel more comfortable handing over their kids for 6 weeks to a small group of "crazy" engineers with power tools.
Is your parent booster club separate from the "team"? An interesting dynamic. Why do you not consider your parents or other NEMs to be "Mentors" as well as the engineers?
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