I ran to a few issues this weekend mentoring students for the up and
coming Regionals. Anybody else having these negative responses to
mentoring?
First I have been mentoring 2 local high schools and 3 middle schools
in our county for 8 years. I have seen alot of improvmwnt and some
rebnewed and growing interest in model aviation. Because of limited
use of local gyms I have students from different schools come to one
high school gym to fly and pass along my many years of experience.
At first the coach for the local gym we were using showed soem
displeasure in me bringing the so called competetion to the gym but
never said anything. He would take his students off to the side and
talk quietly about flying and trimmimg. Understand this coach also a
parent gained all his knowledge from me. I let it go. This weekend
after having a local middle school coach and students come to the gym
to experience BLG again I saw the same attitude until the students
left then all was good again. I recieved a phone call later in the
day from the coach/parent stating because of liabilty only the
students going to the high school in question could use the gym as a
test facility.
My goal is to not only teach young people the joys of indoor free
flight and experience the feeling of a sucessful flight but to
hopefully bring new blood into out beloved hobby.
Im done Just food for thought. Larry Norvall Woodbridge,CA
Oh on a side note this BLG is a very cool event The middle school
kids are jazzed and doing about 40 seconds in a 25 foot gym.
Received on Mon Jan 22 2007 - 07:30:41 CET
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