During the 2007-2008 F.I.R.S.T. Robotics Competition our team, Team 329, mentored Sayville, Team 2487. Our team was proud to do this for we feel that by passing along our knowledge to them, more kids will be able to get involved in the sensational competition of F.I.R.S.T. robotics. Sayville greatly benefited from our help and was very gracious about it. In the Long Island Regional Sayville beat us in the playoffs and went on to win the SBPLI Long Island Regional Competition. We were very proud to see the first year rookie team that we mentored defeat the odds and win the regional competition.
As one of the kids that went over to Sayville every week to help them out I was able to see firsthand the benefits of mentoring. Being an 11th grader it felt pretty cool to go over and mentor kids from all grade levels including 12th. I took the knowledge I learned from the Motorola Engineer Mr. Boehm and shared it to the rookies over at Sayville. This is the consummate paradigm of F.I.R.S.T.—the passing of knowledge from one source to another. Engineers teaching mentors, mentors teaching students, and students teaching students. It was an end to an amazing mentoring process that the F.I.R.S.T. organization encourages.

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