High School Student to Mentor ratio

[Mr. Van]

I was wondering what is the ratio of students who regularly participate/help to mentors who regularly participate/help on your team?

-Mr. Van
Coach, 599

[ngreen]

It is near 1 to 1. Maybe more like 1>1.5 to 1.

[Matt Adams]

Ours is roughly 3 high school students to 1 advisor.

I think that you'll see a range of 1.5:1 all the way up to 12:1... with an average running around 3.5:1 with a standard devation around 1

All of our advisors are college undergraduates at Purdue University, with the exception of help from the technology education teacher at the local high school. We have no practicing engineers.

Matt

[greencactus3]

ours is about 10 students to one woods teacher.
and thats all of our team

[Mark McLeod]

I'd say:
~3 students per adult mentor is the typical average at one of the schools I help at.

At a second school it's about 5 students per mentor.

At a third school it's probably 12 to 1

It seems to be directly proportional to the amount of school administration support the robotics team receives. Some schools throw a lot of support behind the FIRST program, demonstrated through both financial and teacher resources while other teams have only a single teacher dedicated to robotics.

It's so very hard for a lone teacher to manage a program of this magnitude, as well as recruit parents and local industry to the cause. My hats off to you dedicated teachers who can make a team happen.

[Tyler Olds]

We have 18 mentors and around 28 students.

[Jay H 237]

We have just under 30 students on our team and about a dozen mentors. The ratio flucuates slightly since not all the students or mentors make it to the meetings everyday.

[Koko Ed]

We have 35 mentors(a few are part time) and 32 kids.

[Biff]

We have 13 or so Students, 3 (full time mentors) 1 college level part time mentor and... A friend of mine (mentor) from my high school days that was able to swoop in and help big time in the last week of build. None of the full time mentors studied engineering. Happly this year we have a good ballance of kids with varied skills and interests. So not everybody was just trying to build the robot. Hopefully this year at the events we will show better than last year, broken, bent and disappointed. As a group we think this years Bot has a much better chance, and a large part of the design was driven by trying to avoid the destruction done to our bot by other bots and by bad driving.

[shyra1353]

We have 10 students ... but only 9 can every show up to a meeting because one has the slight problem of distance (California to Canada ...) .. and we have 2 teacher sponsors .. and 4 mentors/engineers ... so i guess the ratio would 3:2 but only one teacher is ever there at a time and we normally only have 1 to 2 mentors helping us at a given time .. and then not all students always show up ... so at a normal build meeting (at a tiem before 10), we would have a ratio of 5:1 or 5:2.

[MisterX]

We've got 11 students on our team with about 5-7 at any given moment with memebers going in and out. Then we have one dedicated engineer ewho is there 24-7 and like 3 others who show up when they can towards the end to help for the finaly hooraw.

[OneAngryDaisy]

341 has three teachers and two tech center advisors.. about 40 students so that would make a 1:8 ratio

[Redhead Jokes]

I was wondering what is the ratio of students who regularly participate/help to mentors who regularly participate/help on your team?


We have 12 mentors listed. However how regularly are you talking?

There all the time? Me and 2 other mentors.
There a good part of the time? I'd say a couple more.
1 couldn't make it at all this season.
1 helped thru build season and summer robotics camp.
A few are there parttime.
We have 29 students on the books, and usually 15 show up on a good day.
Tonite there's 3 students and 2 mentors there working on stuff they don't need me for, so I'm home working on administrative/spirit stuff.

[Arrowsmith]

We have 1 teacher, and 2 mentors that show up on an average of once every 2 weeks. The problem is, all the Columbus Public Schools teams have to share our mentors from Columbus State Community College, so they're spread a little thin.

[D.J. Fluck]

According to the last official roster

32 Students
34 Mentors/Parents


Edit:
Not all of the parents are "totally involved" so im guessing maybe 26ish adults

[Aaron Knight]

Slightly more mentors than students.

At last count:
10 students
5 engineers
2 teachers
4 college students (including myself)

although over the course of the build season there were two more college students involved, and one or two other students....

[Ali Ahmed]

We got aroung 7 mentors and over 40 kids, but we, the higher members on the team, teach the younger ones.

[Petey]

We've got 37 students and about 15 mentors. Of those 15 mentors, all but four are parents of the students on the team. We have pretty good community involvement.

--Petey

[Libby Ritchie]

We have 5 students to 1 adult ratio. We have great mentors, but still not enough for the manufacturing team. We need more engineers by far! (Not to mention more money, too!) :D

[Liz*599]

wow our team structure really is unusual then.....we have 3 mentors and a team of nearly 50 students...How do u other team's structure yourselves?, are u divided into diffrent departments, what are the responsibilities of your student leadership?

[Vu2000]

We had a pretty good mentor to student ratio: I believer our team has about 40 students, 25 that are really involved, and we had 10 mentors. This provides for about a 2.5:1 ratio. Of the 10 mentors, 3 of them were teachers, and they stepped aside, mostly doing PR; and 1 mentor was a parent. The others were engineers: 2 for programming, 1 for electrical, 3 for mechanical. Having 1 engineer helping us with our drive train team provided us with a very "fun" year.

[BlueOrion]

The thing is that people who "regularly participate" is a sticky thing to define. We have five coaches, two of which are shop teachers, another has a masters in mech eng, and the other two are also teachers, one does media and animation oversight and the other does everything it seems. We only have 30 people on the team at the end of the season, and onlyabout 20 of those go to nat'ls. If you mean the number of people who actually are in the pits, doing work, with the mentors, well that's a whole different story for another time and a different thread.

[BandChick]

1089 has approximately 30 students. we have one machinist. we have 2 fathers. we have one advisor and one college mentor.

that's 5 : 30 so about 1 to every 6 or so students. i like to think however, that the fathers and our machinist are less involved than the advisor and our college student (*cough*me*cough*), so that leaves about 2:30 when we're not in build season.