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Re: Mentors level of power
College teams are a different story than others..
While many teams may have college mentors come and help the team...few teams are actually based out of a college, meaning the lab, machine shop, and mentors all come from a college...in our teams case, Northeastern University.
With our college team we have almost 0 "adult" mentors. We have a faculty member from Northeastern University who handles our official things. Other than its all college mentors. So teams that may have parents helping out along with others, we have nothing but freshman, sophomores, middlers (thats what they call 3rd year @ Northeastern because we are a 5 year school), juniors and seniors in college.
Mentors play a huge role on any team, but on our team the college mentors are what keep the team running. We have 4 high schools participating on the NU-TRONs, and 2 colleges. Mentors have a number of roles, from helping with design to machining, to wiring, programming as well as planning trips and meetings. Because we have 4 high schools it is not easy to deem captains from the high schools (although we do). We LIVE on a listserve that connects all the members of our team. We do not have 1 single way to contact the whole team, this is where our mentors come in.
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MORT (Team 11) '01-'05 :
-2005 New Jersey Regional Chairman's Award Winners
-2013 MORT Hall of Fame Inductee
NUTRONs (Team 125) '05-???
2007 Boston Regional Winners
2008 & 2009 Boston Regional Driving Tomorrow's Technology Award
2010 Boston Regional Creativity Award
2011 Bayou Regional Finalists, Innovation in Control Award, Boston Regional Finalists, Industrial Design Award
2012 New York City Regional Winners, Boston Regional Finalists, IRI Mentor of the Year
2013 Orlando Regional Finalists, Industrial Design Award, Boston Regional Winners, Pine Tree Regional Finalists
2014 Rhode Island District Winners, Excellence in Engineering Award, Northeastern University District Winners, Industrial Design Award, Pine Tree District Chairman's Award, Pine Tree District Winners
2015 South Florida Regional Chairman's Award, NU District Winners, NEDCMP Industrial Design Award, Hopper Division Finalists, Hopper/Newton Gracious Professionalism Award
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