The MIT Mentorship Initiative

[ebarker]

The MIT Mentorship Initiative is an effort to help recruit mentors to programs like FIRST. Today a short film called "Satisfaction" was released to the public for your use in public outreach and recruitment. You are encouraged to use it. Enjoy the film and look for your team, friend, and mentors.

You can view it on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/mitfirst

You can download it in Windows Media format.
http://kellrobotics.org/files/MITMI/Satisfaction.wmv

You can download it in H.264 MPEG format.
http://kellrobotics.org/files/MITMI/Satisfaction.mp4

The direct youtube link is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TedV5R96--0

Soon there will be a companion website at www.mitfirst.org

Background information - The production 'company' is FRC1311, Kell Robotics. This video project took 10 months and a few dozen people to get this done.
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[Al Skierkiewicz]

Ed,
Great job! Please pass along my congrats to the staff.

[DonRotolo]

Fantastic job Ed & crew! Very nice, and I most certainly WILL be stealing this to sucker entice some mentors from work!

Yeah, allergies.

[ebarker]

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

Yeah, allergies.

I think everyone should have a good case of "allergies" !!

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[KathieK]

I'm thankful that my "allergies" symptoms were cut from the video! I remember ending my interview tearfully also. I was happy to see that Mr. Bart shared my emotions when speaking about why we stick with this mentoring thing... :-)
The video turned out great and I'm honored to have been included.

[Travis Hoffman]

Ed:

Thanks to you, your team, and all contributors for this excellent resource.

I eagerly look forward to deploying this as part of our upcoming mentor drive.

[Clem1640]

Excellent work! Tres cool!

What are the restrictions on use? Is there any way that this could be available to mere mortals to help with mentor recruitment, or is this an exclusive MIT property?

[ebarker]

Originally Posted by Clem1640

Excellent work! Tres cool!What are the restrictions on use? Is there any way that this could be available to mere mortals to help with mentor recruitment

There are no restrictions that will impede you using it in your recruitment. ( I can say that, it says so in the very final credit of the video )

Go to the 1st message in this thread and follow the instructions. Get a copy for yourself. Show it to people, share the youtube, embed it if you like, etc.

Share, share, share, go viral !!!

recruit, recruit, recruit, recruit, recruit, recruit, recruit, recruit, recruit, recruit, recruit, recruit

[ebarker]

From the producers of "Satisfaction" for the MIT Mentorship Initiative.......

A new film : "Mentorship : Engineering A Legacy"

You can view it on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/kellrobotics#p/u/6/OJSkOMKiLvU

You can download it in Windows Media format.
http://www.kellrobotics.org/files/vi...g_A_Legacy.wmv

You can download it in H.264 MPEG format.
http://www.kellrobotics.org/files/vi...g_A_Legacy.mp4

The direct youtube link is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJSkOMKiLvU

It is a little longer than we would like but it is what it is.

A challenge : Find the most memorable quote !!
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[Micah Chetrit]

Great video. I like it a lot. I wish everybody made videos like these

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Ed,
Another winner! I passed along the link to our executive producer.
Al

[Richard Wallace]

Can make a PBJ ---> Can mentor!



Allergies ...

[ebarker]

Originally Posted by Richard

Can make a PBJ ---> Can mentor!



Allergies ...

In "Satisfaction" it was pretty much unanimous that "Allergies" was the favorite phrase.

In "Mentorship : Engineering A Legacy" I think "any body (pronounced buddie) that can make a peanut butter sandwich can be a mentor" will probably be the winning phrase even though there are some other good phrases also.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Can't make a Peanut Butter sandwich and suffer 'allergies' all year long, you are still good to go.

Voice of experience.