Well, not really, no. There's no silver bullet that will make your newbies turn into pros.
They're only going to get there through your guidance. Use each opportunity as a team learning experience, sharing what went wrong and why at the team level so they all learn from each experience.
It's also a management opportunity - you get to evaluate what the team members are doing and will learn who the dependable folks are and who your problem children are. Then you can focus on the problem children (directed training, team programming, etc) or weed out the ones that just won't be able to cut it.
I've done a number of these team development projects, and I can tell you that they won't learn by throwing up fences preventing them from doing things. Give them enough room to shoot themselves in the foot, just be prepared for it. Have your backups in place. Leverage SCM to ensure you don't lose good code, etc.
In the end you'll have a stronger team than if you try to coddle them through the project...
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