So, you're not an engineer! How do you help your team??

[Allison K]

I'm an alumni-mentor. I don't have a job title, as I'm kind of a unique entity on our team. There are other alumni-mentors as well but we all have different amounts of time and different skills to bring to the group, so most of us are floaters, so to speak.

How do you help your team?
-Train the scouts and oversee the scouting process.
-Run the offseason program (The technical and non-technical divisions, which include organizing fundraising and outreach projects, finding new sponsors, getting all the old robots up and running, build a new crate and cart, team building fun).
-Idea Machine (This is everyone on the team really, but I compile the ideas into emails and send them to the necessary people).
-Field coach.
-I bring the goldfish (The edible kind).
-During build, I jump from group to group, helping where I can, and I spent a lot of time supervising in the machine shop.
-Currently I'm helping the seniors organize their senior project (which has been intergrated into the offseason program).

What's your current career?
I'm currently a college student, working towards a degree in secondary education (debating between majoring in chemistry, biology, physics, psychology, or some computer science or application).

Is this related to what you help out with on the team?
I suppose that anything I do that's working with high school students is related to a secondary education degree, so yes.

~Allison