Team: 973 The Greybots is seeking mentors!
We meet weekly starting now through end of fall. Our mentors are typically Cal Poly San Luis Obispo students but we welcome all.
Subteams: Scouting, Programming, Business, Design, Fabrication, Electrical & Assembly, CNC
PM if you are interested in any area but we have a strong need for people who can enthusiastically and consistently do the following:
Scouting & Strategy Mentors
- Plan and attend weekly scouting meeting during Build Season typically saturdays but TBD
- Update Scouting System in Google Sheets and supporting materials
- Discuss robot gameplay and strategies and explore ways to rank robots
- Assist Scouting leadership students with logistics and develop organization skills (assuming you yourself have org skills)
Programming Mentors
- Team currently uses C++, but also trains our rookies in Python. We are fairly flexible in what language is used for training if mentors are willing to support it.
- Be able to assist students with a wide range of programming experience (beginning, intermediate, and advanced programmers)
- Do detailed code reviews - provide timely and helpful feedback to students
- Talk with students about how best to structure code, design subsystems, etc
- Help develop tooling that enables students to program robots
- Teach disciplined problem solving and debugging skills
- Teach students to reason about control systems
General Requirements
- Be able to communicate effectively with other mentors and students about tasks and goals.
- Be active on our Team Slack
- Attend meetings with regularity:
- Fall: Tues, Thurs and some Saturdays
- Build: Tues, Thurs, Sat, Sun. Some Monday Holidays.
Benefits
- Work with a greyt
group of students! - Our families generously provide dinner Tues, Thurs, & Sat during Build
- Probably some others
Happy to answer any questions!