Adult coach?

[Chris Fultz]

Originally Posted by dtengineering

What I would really like to see, however, (and maybe this goes on at off-season events) is a mentor drive team vs. mentor drive team match... I think after a season of receiving "helpful tips" from us mentors, the students might enjoy seeing how closely we followed our own advice! And the mentors might have a better appreciation of exactly how challenging driving the machine and sticking to strategy in competition really is. I mean... it looks pretty easy from the stands.... Jason

we have done this at the IRI.
coach MUST be a student.
drive team must be mentors who were not drivers on a FIRST team.

it was ugly....

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Chris Fultz

we have done this at the IRI.
coach MUST be a student.
drive team must be mentors who were not drivers on a FIRST team.

it was ugly....

It's spreading. SCRRF Fall Classic 2006 had it after the finals. Not sure about 2007.

[Paul Copioli]

To reiterate Andy's post, we do not have a mentor as the drive coach because it puts us in a better position to win. We have a mentor drive coach (an engineer, specifically) so the students can work side by side with the engineers. On our team, the students work side by side with the mentors during every phase of the FRC season: off season events, design, prototyping, build, Chariman's (although this is more student tilted than the rest of the stuff), practice, and competition. This works for us. Why should the side by side stop at the field entrance?

For us, it has nothing to do with winning but has everything to do with side by side coperation between professionals and students.

And yes, I yell (shout, whatever you want to call it) when behind the glass becasue you can't hear anything behind that Lexan shield.