Mentoring Teams 2 hours away from Mentor location.

[EricVanWyk]

Wayne Penn is the guy to talk to, he mentored in NJ from NH. I tagged along a few times, and I'll tell you now that it is a heckuva commitment. I'd recommend mentoring local, unless you have a very good reason not to.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by EricVanWyk

Wayne Penn is the guy to talk to, he mentored in NJ from NH. I tagged along a few times, and I'll tell you now that it is a heckuva commitment. I'd recommend mentoring local, unless you have a very good reason not to.

Wayne's story is crazy, and I believe it was trips from the Boston University campus down to NJ.

I don't have any input about driving over to teams to mentor (I'm technically not a "mentor") but we've assisted and consulted several teams across the nation via private chat, oovoo, AIM, private team forums, EWCP has an open public chat that any team is allowed to use if they wish, but let us know if you use it please.

http://team1323.com/madtalk/chat/madtalk.php

[Andrew Schreiber]

This may also be a good use of Google Wave as well, being able to attach files to a wave for anyone in the wave to download would be very beneficial in my opinion. Additionally the wave could eventually be published as a training tool either internally or externally. (Sorry, I really am trying to find a use for Wave)

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

This may also be a good use of Google Wave as well, being able to attach files to a wave for anyone in the wave to download would be very beneficial in my opinion. Additionally the wave could eventually be published as a training tool either internally or externally. (Sorry, I really am trying to find a use for Wave)

I suggested this very thing in requesting a Wave invite from Google - no response. Haters.

We've used the webcam option locally with good results.

[xitaqua]

Travis and Andrew,

Thanks for the info on Google Wave, I have to check it out.

I am looking at youtube and see how we can share videos like this one :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AalR_DhoI1Y

This robot was built by a group of employees using the same FIRST Robotics materials that the students use. The hope of sharing this video with the team, is to give an idea to the teams of things they can do, such as demo their robots in the middle school.

I am also trying to mentor the team by doing a "small video" clip of myself and put on youtube with also a "survey link" for them to respond to the video, but still need to figure out how to get the team to participate, the participation level has been low.

[Wetzel]

For video, is there internet in the team meeting space that can access Skype? Skype works very well, and video calls are free skype-skype. Much more interactive than youtube.

Wetzel

[xitaqua]

Wetzel,

Thanks for your posting, yeah interactive of youtube has been something I have been thinking about. Until the team is able to get a low-cost camera such as a flip camera ( less $100), I plan to used youtube and a survey tour to bring "interactivity".......

Check out this link :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffOYDDfgM_0

If you are a student on a team, feel free to fill out the survey if you like.......

Cheers,
Marcos.