Mentor Organization

[trezelle2]

Hi all!
Our team is putting together our Team Handbook this summer (we just finished our 2nd season), and so I've been looking around CD a lot for inspiration and advice .

One topic that seems to be discussed a lot is team leadership - how does the student leadership function, etc. I was wondering what other teams had for mentor organization, as I've seen far less information on that (beyond "Mentors inspire, teach, and encourage growth", which is important, but less than helpful for my purposes).

• What do mentors do on your team?
• Do you differentiate between build and non-build/NEMO mentors?
• How do you structure your group of mentors?

Our team right now has 7 mentors registered, with 4 (counting me, as a 'part-time' mentor while I'm in college) who are very active in the team. Incidentally, we also have 7 students, so we're trying as well to find the balance of having the students feel ownership of the team, and not burning out the handful of kids we have.

Mostly, before our next meeting when we discuss the Handbook, I'd love to have some ideas of what other team's mentors do, and what are specific tasks or groups of tasks that we could divvy up between us.

Thanks!!