Attn: Present & Future College Students, Think carefully before you mentor

[robodude03]

Personally, mentoring has opened up many opportunities for me throughout college. However, my situation may be a little different. I am a FIRST Scholar Award winner and as such my school likes me and even encourages me to participate in more events. As long as I invite the professors along and bring several robotics teams out to the school, they are fine with me devoting a tremendous amount of hours to FIRST and allow me to fly over all of the country. I have found that if you get your school involved and make a note of what you are doing, while keeping your studies in mind, the school will support you. Throughout the process I have also used the engineers as tutors to help me out in my academics as well