Mentors

Everything you need to know about being a Mentor for the ESHS POTATOES

You don't need to have a STEM background to be a mentor!

Mentors for the ESHS Robotics club do more than just advise on engineering robots. There are plenty of other ways you can help:

1. Can you deal with conflicts?
   For many of our students, FRC represents their first formal engineering experience. Strong opinions can often lead to tension. Any mentor patient enough to hear both sides out and come to an amicable resolution will be a valuable asset to the club.
2. Are you organized?
   One of our biggest challenges is getting the students to stick to one plan and make incremental progress—in other words, project management. Students can benefit from seeing how a goal-oriented mentor allocates resources, how they organize and prioritize work, and how they deal with FRC's tight build season deadlines.
3. Can you cook or supply food?
   You can help the FRC team by hosting meals during build season and during competition.
4. Can you drive?
   You can help us to transport people and equipment. Larger and more spacious vehicles like minivans are especially valuable for transporting the students' finished robots.
5. Can you make phone calls?
   The club is always on the lookout for new sponsors. If you know an organization that might be interested in having their logo displayed prominently on a student-built robot, we'd love to talk to you.
6. Can you breathe?
   In order to keep the robotics lab open after school hours, it needs to be under the watchful eye of a teacher or adult mentor. Having a list of willing chaperones is also important for other activities the club partakes in.

District Approval Process

The School District has a standardized process which all mentors who visit the ESHS campus must undergo. As of the 2016-2017 school year, the school employee responsible for working with the mentors on these requirements was Shantai Turner-Dees.

TB test

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Background check

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Fingerprinting

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Online training

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