High School Student to Mentor ratio

[Aaron Knight]

Slightly more mentors than students.

At last count:
10 students
5 engineers
2 teachers
4 college students (including myself)

although over the course of the build season there were two more college students involved, and one or two other students....

[Ali Ahmed]

We got aroung 7 mentors and over 40 kids, but we, the higher members on the team, teach the younger ones.

[Petey]

We've got 37 students and about 15 mentors. Of those 15 mentors, all but four are parents of the students on the team. We have pretty good community involvement.

--Petey

[Libby Ritchie]

We have 5 students to 1 adult ratio. We have great mentors, but still not enough for the manufacturing team. We need more engineers by far! (Not to mention more money, too!)

[Liz*599]

wow our team structure really is unusual then.....we have 3 mentors and a team of nearly 50 students...How do u other team's structure yourselves?, are u divided into diffrent departments, what are the responsibilities of your student leadership?

[Vu2000]

We had a pretty good mentor to student ratio: I believer our team has about 40 students, 25 that are really involved, and we had 10 mentors. This provides for about a 2.5:1 ratio. Of the 10 mentors, 3 of them were teachers, and they stepped aside, mostly doing PR; and 1 mentor was a parent. The others were engineers: 2 for programming, 1 for electrical, 3 for mechanical. Having 1 engineer helping us with our drive train team provided us with a very "fun" year.

[BlueOrion]

The thing is that people who "regularly participate" is a sticky thing to define. We have five coaches, two of which are shop teachers, another has a masters in mech eng, and the other two are also teachers, one does media and animation oversight and the other does everything it seems. We only have 30 people on the team at the end of the season, and onlyabout 20 of those go to nat'ls. If you mean the number of people who actually are in the pits, doing work, with the mentors, well that's a whole different story for another time and a different thread.

[BandChick]

1089 has approximately 30 students. we have one machinist. we have 2 fathers. we have one advisor and one college mentor.

that's 5 : 30 so about 1 to every 6 or so students. i like to think however, that the fathers and our machinist are less involved than the advisor and our college student (*cough*me*cough*), so that leaves about 2:30 when we're not in build season.