Mentor involvement

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BERSDT (Broad Engagement Robotics Spiral Demo Team) provides free of charge a 7 week telecom for mentors.It is like having a mentor for mentors.

This past season we held the telecom on Mondays and mentors from 7 different teams in SoCal attended.

Besides giving an opportunity for us to share practices, it helps "moderate" mentor behavior, so that a mentor is not "doing all the work", if he or she is doing it, the telecom has helped them realize that.

Also it helps mentors see what other mentors in others team are doing to help ensure the team is "student led" in a way that is productive.

One day I will write a book about it...but as a teaser I seen student led team apply for a large grant, put mentor name on it and not have notified the mentor.

This year we hope to have the telecoms on a Monday at 7PM Central, if you are a mentor working for a company that can commit 7 weeks to attend the telecom, send me a PM. We are capping attendance to 12 teams.

Cheers,
Marcos.