Question for Team Alumni who Volunteer

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I've worked a number of different volunteer positions in the years since I graduated... including Spare Parts, Queuing, Pit Admin, Scorekeeper/Field Control, Official Scorer, Judge, & Field Reset.

As a college mentor I usually only attend official FIRST events where my team is competing... so it just makes more sense to stay/travel with the team. Also, our team is usually able to get good deals so it is more cost-efficient for me to travel with the team than apart. I'm often one of the carpool drivers anyways.

Unless there are extenuating circumstances (or they are family members), we never have non-students staying in rooms with students... instead, they share rooms with other mentors or team parents.

I occasionally attend/work other regionals on my own or with other mentors (such as NYC FTC), but then it's usually one day events and we drive up and back the same day.

In the case of volunteer roles where a conflict could occur, a conflict of interest form is filled out and your superior needs to be made aware of the conflict. In the case of a conflict occurring, you are asked to step-out of or pass the issue off to another volunteer.