We have:
involved with the team this year.
Student team members are considered such if they have filled out the required forms, paid their activity fees, and are in good academic standing per team and school policy. Mentors are both registered and informal/periodic, and parents is the set of parents on mailing list for various non-mentor team involvement things (week zero, field build, food organization, chaperoning).
Yeah. We are located in a college town (Purdue), so we get a fair number of mentors from the college. This year, 8 of those 17 are Purdue students. Another is college aged. We have 2 teachers, only 4 actual engineers, and 2 “community members.” So our mentors are quite diverse. One of our struggles is finding technical mentors.
We also deal with a large amount of turnover, as most Purdue students leave town after they graduate. We have had a set of about 5-6 mentors that have stayed the same since 2017, but the team from 2012-2015 is essentially a completely different team. There is 1 mentor who was on the team in 2016 that is still on the team.
Its very weird. Hopefully we can find some stability, but that is most the reason we have such a large mentor base.
We also have a terrible time gaining students. But we have gotten better, so its something we are working on.
40 students, 15 or so mentors including teachers, mentors (some full time during build-season, some part-time), and essential parent support roles.
This number stays pretty steady, we start the year with 50-60 interested students, maybe 45 make it to kick-off and then it tapers to 35-40 regular students who are active all build season.
We’re a school-based district team. We have 36 students on roster, about 25 of those are really active and the rest are occasional participants. Then we get to mentors, where I feel we’re a bit behind the game, since we only have 3 active mentors (plus an inactive one who’s still on the roster since he’s the team’s founder and no one wants to remove him.) That 3 mentor number, by the way, is new for this season, since before this it was just one active mentor, though our two new ones are very likely to stick around, so that’s good. This is actually one of the larger active teams we’ve had, the result of serious recruiting and building team infrastructure to keep members and pass on knowledge.
40 Students 2 Teachers and 7 mentors
We have roughly 20 students and 5 mentors this year
13 Students, 10 mentors, 1 dog, and a whole lot of fun
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