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Unread 15-06-2016, 15:53
GreyingJay GreyingJay is offline
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Re: Mentor Organization

Generally speaking our team is divided into the following subteams:

- design/fabrication (CAD, prototyping, machining, etc)
- electrical/controls (wiring, electronics)
- software
- business (marketing, social media, communications, fundraising, sponsorship, awards, outreach)

Mentors generally align themselves with one of these areas. Some of us do a little more - there is a group of us who are also responsible for core administration of the team and the legal stuff (non profit organization, board of directors, policies).

We do not make a distinction between engineering mentors and non-engineers.

Structure - there is technically a flowchart that depicts a hierarchy but we've been pretty informal about it. We have regular mentor meetings where we discuss anything that needs to be talked about or done. These meetings are open to anybody but in practice only about 1/3 of our total mentor base is actively participating in the day to day running of the team, so these people naturally have earned their way to getting assigned more tasks and responsibility.
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