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Adult coach?

View Poll Results: Mentor field coach or not?
All students, all the time.	90	35.29%
All students at least 50% of the time	19	7.45%
Adult coach at least 50% of the time	21	8.24%
Adult coach all the time	125	49.02%
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02-05-2008, 18:58

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Re: Adult coach?

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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....

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