High School Student to Mentor ratio

[Mr. Van]

I was wondering what is the ratio of students who regularly participate/help to mentors who regularly participate/help on your team?

-Mr. Van
Coach, 599

[ngreen]

It is near 1 to 1. Maybe more like 1>1.5 to 1.

[Matt Adams]

Ours is roughly 3 high school students to 1 advisor.

I think that you'll see a range of 1.5:1 all the way up to 12:1... with an average running around 3.5:1 with a standard devation around 1

All of our advisors are college undergraduates at Purdue University, with the exception of help from the technology education teacher at the local high school. We have no practicing engineers.

Matt

[greencactus3]

ours is about 10 students to one woods teacher.
and thats all of our team

[Mark McLeod]

I'd say:
~3 students per adult mentor is the typical average at one of the schools I help at.

At a second school it's about 5 students per mentor.

At a third school it's probably 12 to 1

It seems to be directly proportional to the amount of school administration support the robotics team receives. Some schools throw a lot of support behind the FIRST program, demonstrated through both financial and teacher resources while other teams have only a single teacher dedicated to robotics.

It's so very hard for a lone teacher to manage a program of this magnitude, as well as recruit parents and local industry to the cause. My hats off to you dedicated teachers who can make a team happen.

[Tyler Olds]

We have 18 mentors and around 28 students.

[Jay H 237]

We have just under 30 students on our team and about a dozen mentors. The ratio flucuates slightly since not all the students or mentors make it to the meetings everyday.

[Koko Ed]

We have 35 mentors(a few are part time) and 32 kids.

[Biff]

We have 13 or so Students, 3 (full time mentors) 1 college level part time mentor and... A friend of mine (mentor) from my high school days that was able to swoop in and help big time in the last week of build. None of the full time mentors studied engineering. Happly this year we have a good ballance of kids with varied skills and interests. So not everybody was just trying to build the robot. Hopefully this year at the events we will show better than last year, broken, bent and disappointed. As a group we think this years Bot has a much better chance, and a large part of the design was driven by trying to avoid the destruction done to our bot by other bots and by bad driving.

[shyra1353]

We have 10 students ... but only 9 can every show up to a meeting because one has the slight problem of distance (California to Canada ...) .. and we have 2 teacher sponsors .. and 4 mentors/engineers ... so i guess the ratio would 3:2 but only one teacher is ever there at a time and we normally only have 1 to 2 mentors helping us at a given time .. and then not all students always show up ... so at a normal build meeting (at a tiem before 10), we would have a ratio of 5:1 or 5:2.

[MisterX]

We've got 11 students on our team with about 5-7 at any given moment with memebers going in and out. Then we have one dedicated engineer ewho is there 24-7 and like 3 others who show up when they can towards the end to help for the finaly hooraw.

[OneAngryDaisy]

341 has three teachers and two tech center advisors.. about 40 students so that would make a 1:8 ratio

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally Posted by Mr. Van

I was wondering what is the ratio of students who regularly participate/help to mentors who regularly participate/help on your team?

We have 12 mentors listed. However how regularly are you talking?

There all the time? Me and 2 other mentors.
There a good part of the time? I'd say a couple more.
1 couldn't make it at all this season.
1 helped thru build season and summer robotics camp.
A few are there parttime.
We have 29 students on the books, and usually 15 show up on a good day.
Tonite there's 3 students and 2 mentors there working on stuff they don't need me for, so I'm home working on administrative/spirit stuff.

[Arrowsmith]

We have 1 teacher, and 2 mentors that show up on an average of once every 2 weeks. The problem is, all the Columbus Public Schools teams have to share our mentors from Columbus State Community College, so they're spread a little thin.

According to the last official roster

32 Students
34 Mentors/Parents


Edit:
Not all of the parents are "totally involved" so im guessing maybe 26ish adults