Responsibilities of a Mentor

[Scott Ritchie]

Mentors:

should promote advanced skills building on those learned during the day.
Offer training in skills not yet approached in school.
force the development of communication skills in students.
show students how to work as a team of students and adults.
will show students how to efficiently approach problems.
will lead by example when showing how to handle disagreement.
will show passion about the process and try and pass it along to students.
will not take themselves too seriously.
will help students develop "Moral authority" (I love that statement for whoever said it in this thread)
Will help lay the building blocks of ethics
need to demand safety
need to have an open mind, even for new ideas
(stopped here due to time)

Students:

need to want to work with the best minds available.
need to crave more knowledge.
need to take iniciative.
need to demand a quality product after the six weeks.
need to spread the excitement of the program to the rest of the school.
need to realize they need help to expand on things that have been developed since the dawn of man.
should feel comfortable in telling their mentors want.
need to have and open mind, even for old ideas.
(stopped her due to time)

As I was making this list I realize a student needs to be at a certain level to appreciate it and expand on it. I think I would not have been able to understand some of this when I was in high school. I think I would have told you to flip sand instead of listen to the people around me. I do see however in some four year FIRST students the ability use their mentors as the valuable resource they are.

Now back to my job.

Hope it helps in some way