Quote:
We need to engage more school faculty & administrators
We need to reengage the current engineering department.
|
We are also trying to think of ways to engage engineers from our primary sponsor. At least one of our engineers used to work for our sponsor and is now working at another division of the corporation. Our machinist and technician are both retired from the sponsor. I am on the team as a parent/adult mentor but worked for the sponsor for 25 years before being laid off. So we have no current employees of the sponsor actively working with the team.
Quote:
|
These parents tend to be the community volunteers - school board president, PTA presidents, Boy & Girl Scout leaders, etc.
|
What's the saying? If you want a job done, ask the person who has the least amount of time! Seriously, my husband and I live by the tenet that you have to "give back" to the community in which you work and live. Between us we have volunteered as a firefighter, EMT, Rescue Squad Leader, K-9 Search and Rescue handler, PTO President, professional clown, costume designer for YMCA summer theater productions, Sunday School teacher, etc. etc. And now as FIRST adult mentors. I have to say that this is the most rewarding work when I see how much of an impact FIRST makes on the students.