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FLL mentors

So, for some crazy, ridiculous reason this year, I decided to mentor the two FLL teams at the middle school with two other people on my FRC team. All three of us are high school students, and neither of us have mentored a robotics team before, but we all have some form of leadership experience, but it's all been with people our age. We'll start working with the kids very soon, so I was hoping people on here who have mentored FLL teams might be able to give us some tips? What are the general no-no's of mentoring, and what have you found to have worked particularly well?

I have worked with the lego mindstorms system before (middle school robotics class), but I have never been a part of an FLL team. I've read the entire game manual and watched the kick off video, but is there anything else I should know? How involved should I be? I understand I'm not supposed to spoon feed answers, but to what degree should we (the student mentors) be helping the kids? Also (in case this has any impact on your answers), there is one teacher-mentor per team, and that's all they currently have in terms of mentors. Both are pretty good at solving engineering problems. I'm not sure, but I think only one of them is familiar with coding for mindstorms.
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