Some of my extramentorial roles in 2008:
-- orderer of online parts; e.g., 1000 denier green Cordura, AndyMark SuperShifters, various shapes of aluminum, SparkFun gyro, fasteners, etc.
-- supervisor of Jabba the Hutt, whose pre-season fabrication jollies have sometimes led to actual robot parts,
-- laundry vehicle driver, when the team stayed in a hotel without washer/dryer access,
-- Dad. This year my 11 year old daughter travelled with the team for the first time.

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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)