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Re: How do you recruit mentors?

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Originally Posted by aryker View Post
Our team relies primarily on parents for mentors as well. Every year on the first Monday of build season, we have a "parent night," where we show all the parents the game video and walk them through a typical build season. We then invite them to stay the rest of the night and sit in on our brainstorming sessions, and invite any who are interested to come back and mentor.
We do something similar at the start of the school year when we are recruiting students. Parent participation is pretty good, although we end up being weak in some areas (mechanical design and shop skills are rare for us). We also have excellent college students, but they have busy schedules.

Do most teams have a core group of mentors who stay year-to-year and form the heart of the team? Is it just luck that you find people like that?

This year we split into varsity and junior varsity squads. That seemed to help reduce the stress on the mentors. Most of us worked with sub-teams of 4 to 6 students. Hopefully it will be easier to add new part-time mentors too.
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