[snoman]

hi
good for you guys and gals for taking charge when your mentor may not be.
1. is the team part of a school district?
2. is your mentor part of the district? if not how did he get there?

At our school (VERY rural northern MN) we have myself (technology ed teacher) who puts in lots of hours after school supervising and helping the team, two coaches 1 for the boys team (also a tech ed teacher does all paper work and helps out when wife and kids allow) and one for the girls team (MS science teacher who is very busy) but helps a lot with PR and scouting stuff, another tech ed teacher who helps out when he can, a math teacher who is good to bounce programming stuff off of and for the first time this year a actual person from industry. he works as a CNC machinist for a aircraft restoration company(thanks Steve!!) this is at a HS with a pop. of less than 200 in a town of less than a thousand ppl. granted most of us live in the surrounding area.
Huge props for keeping the team together with maybe a somewhat absent mentor!!
answer questions and i will provide more suggestions.