OP’s team has to decide their commitment to their goals and do they trust and follow the coaches/mentors to get to their goals. However, none of this may help the OP decide. My team is coached by two very good, experienced teachers and I see my team is significantly run by student voice. I looked it up and there is a lot of great stuff readily available on the Internet. It’s all about getting the students to get it done, with mentoring providing perspective, training, and experience. The level of effort and/or time seems irrelevant to me. aka “Reality has the most power over the team”. It is very infrequent that we have to as mentors give a flat out no, or insist on something. We try to steer the team, give advice, keep all 10 fingers, toes, ears and eyes, and give them our opinions as to what will be a competitive robot. There definitely are teams where mentors have a bigger hand on the robot, and the choices that get made. I find that asking questions is one of the most powerful tools that mentors have… “Have you planned for XX to fail”? “What is your plan if the YY is too complicated, or doesn’t work”? “Have you prototyped this yet, because we wont commit to it on the Robot until you prove it can work”? “Do we have the funds for that idea? If not how do you plan to fund raise for it”? If the result of the students making bad choices is a non-competitive robot then so be it. Mentors should be encouraging the students to have the majority of the power. Neither students nor mentors get absolute decision-making authority.Īt 4160 we start with the phrase “If a Student can do it, a Student should do it”. TL DR Student officers are the ones who make the team go, mentors are the ones who steer where the team’s going to make sure it doesn’t crash and burn. The post-competition season is pretty much just like the preseason, but a lot less active. Again, mentors have veto power over student ideas (rip swurret 2022 ) but the students are the ones doing the design and build.Īt competitions, mentors and the students leading drive team / pit team / scouting team all work together to ensure the success of the team as a whole. programming officer plans for teaching programming, etc.).ĭuring build, it’s each officer’s responsibility to lead their respective subteam and do what they need to get done. The officers’ responsibility is to prepare for the preseason meetings that are in their area (e.g. The mentors always have ultimate veto power, but most of the ideas tend to come from the officers.ĭuring the preseason, the mentors’ responsibility is paperwork-y things and helping the officers plan out the preseason. They all work with the mentors to plan what the team will do. We have a pretty sizable team of student officers who are responsible for specific aspects of the team. On our team, we have a pretty big structure where the students put in most of the work, while mentors act in a more management-like role to ensure that the students do what they need to do and direct their work effectively, as well as directing the team big-picture and doing all the stuff the team needs to do with the school district and with FIRST.
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