What First is missing.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by MikeL303

One big thing that is missing from FIRST is Mentor training. Yes I understand that FIRST has a conference at Championship and there may be other outlets for mentor training but as a mentor who spends most of his time in the pit make sure things are running smoothly. I barely have time to check out what is going on and what other teams have done. There needs to be a better outlet for mentors to get trained without having to burn more PTO. Because it takes a special understanding and knowledge to design and build one of these robots and not knowing the technology or resources leaves teams in the dust.

Several areas have teams that do mentor workshops during the summer or fall. Scott Rippetoe (1477) and myself started a summer one in Houston last year and we are working on one for this summer. Maybe you could get together with teams in your area and do the same. HQ can't solve all the problems, that the best part about FRC we can do a bunch things ourselves.