Adult coach?

dtengineering · #12 05-02-2008, 03:16 PM

We've always had student coaches on the field for every match. It is just something that seems to work with our team. With a different team... with a different robot... or in a different situation, we would do it differently. I am really glad that FIRST gives teams the choice to use either students or adults in this role.

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

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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