The Roles of a Mentor - A contest

[Kims Robot]

I love this thread haha... here's my input...

Ambulance Destroyer: I don’t get to drive the robot much, as many of our demos are short, but every year at the Harris year end demo, we often have a few robots, and a few drivers, so they let me drive. With our Aim high robot, I did a super fancy pirouette, and sped full force backwards stopping an inch from the nearby ambulance. I then thought I would be funny and gun it as if the robot was running away from the ambulance… except I pulled the sticks in the wrong direction! The kids still point out un-dented ambulances to me!

Waterfetcher: at competition our chaperones usually fill water bottles for our kids, but when its been a while since they have been around, I usually run off and get it for them.

Mohawk-maker: One of our seniors (4th year of FIRST & 4th year as our driver!) decided to go with a red & black Mohawk this year, every morning of competition he walks up and hands me a bottle of hair glue, holds out his hands for my wedding/engagement rings (so I don’t get glue on them), and sits in front of me showing everyone his new rings! I also started this tradition our first year with one of our seniors by helping cut his Mohawk and stand it up at a few of our competitions.

EMT: two years ago one of our kids chest bumped a table at 2am when we finally got the robot working the night before Rally, and tripped over the table leg slicing open his ankle. I ran and got all the medical supplies (a shower curtain from the locker room and a handful of paper towels), and held his ankle for half an hour before we got to drive him to the hospital. Im also constantly removing splinters and providing bandaids

Most Needy of Safety Glasses Away from the Robot: I once tried to open a box of sodas with a boxcutter and punctured a can getting soda all in my eyes and all over the wall behind me. Three days later, I got salad dressing in my eye… a year later I got starbucks coffee in my eye…

Chauffer: I cant count the number of rides I’ve given to our kids (with their parents approval of course!)

Hex-bug Trafficker – I initiated the hexbug sales for our team, and soon found out that EVERYONE at Harris wanted one… I must have sold a thousand of them myself!! Its certainly a funny site to come home to see three GIANT cases of hexbugs on your apartment doorstep!

Receiving Department – we order a lot of stuff for our team, and since I go to every meeting, all the parts get delivered to my house. I once came home to find 12 boxes on my doorstep in the middle of January – what must our neighbors think??

Artist – I often end up painting things, from our crate to our control box to our students!