What's your mentor makeup?

[CrazyCarl461]

All of our mentors are students at Purdue University (which is kind of like a company). There are usually about 40 of us from all different schools, but around half of us are in engineering. About eight of us are actually involved in creation of the robot and a bunch are devoted to Lego League. When we are not helping out the team, we are either 1. Studying like crazy or 2. On summer vacation.

Right now we have two high school faculty members. One is the technology teacher and the other is a chemistry teacher. We have a few professors that serve only as an administrative connection to the university and run the advisor class (ME 497f, one non-technical credit). We have no practicing engineers or mentors from industry. It seems to work for us.