Training technical mentors

when I was invited to help out a rookie team 6 years ago I had know idea what I was signing up for...I thought I was going to be helping out a couple of kids with a science project...Once they showed me what we were up against I adopted the attitude of 'knowlegable team member' more than 'mentor'...The kids knew the game, I only knew how to program. we did well winning rookie allstar and going to atlanta..

For me small teams with few mentors worked the best...Too many mentors can spoil the bot...

Brian

[Radical Pi]

I'm kinda looking for help here too. I'm the only veteran programmer on our team, and we have 2 rookies. We're also getting our first true programming mentor for a long time. I think he would understand the basic concepts of FIRST since he's one of the parents, but I need to teach him all of the technical aspects of the control system (especially since he works in web development).

So basically I'm looking for suggestions on what the best way would be to bring the new mentor up to speed on the control system. If it also involves teaching the rookies at the same time that would be awesome.