Re: What's your mentor makeup?
In our first year we had more or less three main mentors: The engineer parents of the student who founded the club and a friend of theirs who works at a machine shop. There were a few parents that put in time but the majority of the planning and body work that was by students and the three mentors. This year those three were back as well as more parents: an engineer and network admin, plus the team's founder and I who are college students.
Also, our sponsor, [plug] Modern Industries [/plug], is the company our machine shop mentor works for. At first they donated us shop time and materials, but after we did well at regionals they gave us lots and lots of money to go to Atlanta. It was amazing. Also, our founding engineer father donates money to the team and its matched by his company.
We don't actively recruit adults for help and money. So far they've all come to us, and our team's depended on their generosity.
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