I’ve been feeling like a failure as a Robot Team Mentor as our robots didn’t even move when we got to competition, and we didn’t even get to drive our robots. I was very disappointed in the other teams as they didn’t pitch in and help. A few kids tried, but they didn’t have the knowledge.\n<\/p>\n
However, my husband said that he felt that I was a great mentor and a great coach, precisely because I let the kids do the work and let them learn. He thinks too many adults take over and that probably a lot of the robots were built by adults. This year we had more kids involved, but still didn’t have as many actually working as I would like. I am changing that now.\n<\/p>\n
Our biggest problems were that the kids didn’t meet my deadlines. Our robots didn’t get build in time, so our programmers didn’t get a chance to do any programming or testing. Those builders might very well be off the team, we’ll have to see.\n<\/p>\n
I’m working with new builders now, and I’m doing the teaching rather than letting the previous builders teach. Here’s the scheme: the new kids are following the instructions from me. If they get stuck, I’m having the previous builders help, and if they are still stuck, I’ll step in.\n<\/p>\n
I also need to solve the programming problem \u2013 but I have GOT to get kids to stop building on things long enough for people to program them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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