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Mentors: How does your company support you?
Mentors,
My company is having a discussions on ways to encourage and support employee volunteer efforts like FIRST mentoring. I was interested in asking this forum what are some of the ways your companies support you in mentoring FIRST teams?
Do they have an allowance of time off to go to team meetings?
Do they offer incentives to those who volunteer?
Are you assigned to the task as part of your job? If they do, how does that work? Do you get time off? Extra pay?
Does your company help you with travel expenses for regionals or the championship?
Do they off other incentives like a volunteer lunch or dinner or some kind of appreciation celebration?
It will help me to benchmark other companies and I thought it would be valuable to document some of the various ways companies support their volunteers.
If there is a similar thread already, please point me to it, I tried to search but didn't come up with anything.
Right now, my company doesn't do anything, but they are talking about it, which is appreciated.
Any experiences shared would be very helpful.
Thank you,
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Dan Glenn
2015-16 FRC Chairman, San Diego Regional Planning Committee
2016 FRC Inspector, Orange County (LRI), Los Angeles, Carson Division
2015 FRC Inspector, Inland Empire (LRI), Central Valley, Los Angeles, Galileo Division
2015 FTC Mentor 10092 Green.Griffins; R&D Robotics Education
2014 FRC Inspector, Inland Empire, San Diego(LRI), Archimedes Division
2012-15 FTC Mentor Team 6565 Stuffed Dragons & 8489 Green Griffins Boys and Girls Club
2013 FRC Inspector, Central Valley, San Diego(LRI), Los Angeles, Inland Empire, Galileo Division
2012 FRC Inspector, San Diego, Los Angeles, Central Valley, Newton Division
2009-12 FRC Mentor Team 1622 Spyder Poway HS
2007-08 FRC Mentor Team 2658 Pedestrian Rancho Bernardo HS
Last edited by sandiegodan : 03-02-2012 at 17:14.
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