====== Mentorship Meeting - February 4, 2016 ======
**Attended: Zach, Brian, Brandon, Ryan, Kim, Garrett, Christie**

===== Third Week Tasks =====
  * Arduino tutorials
  * Make Gantt chart
  * Prepare for Proposal Presentations

===== Fourth Week (Next Week) Tasks =====
  * Make sure Arduino tutorials are finished
  * Note on bare Arduino tutorials
    * Do not have voltage regulators, 16MHz Crystals
    * Can have students build the tutorials and leave spaces for the voltage regs while we buy parts
    * Can prototype with Arduino
  * Students should be following their schedules
  * Usual: progress, accomplishments, issues, goals for next week

===== Progress Sheet =====
  * Update progress sheet by Fridays at 11:59 pm

===== Presentations =====
  * Proposal presentation on February 6 in iLab from 9-11 am with lunch after
  * 296 students will have 6 minutes maximum to present
    * Content for their presentations is on the wiki
  * Would be good to check content of presentations
    * Motivation should be the motivation for making a weatherbox not motivation for joining the lab
      * Why is it important to get solar irradiance data?
      * How can this be used?
      * Why is renewable energy good? etc.

===== Fablab Access =====
  * Zach is the main contact for this
    * Will have lab code
    * Will be trained on how to use equipment
    * Others will then need approval from him after learning to use the equipment

===== Funding =====
  * Make sure students signed up for Ron Ho Fund
  * Have students purchase a pyranometer, leveling plate and Arduino if there is extra money
  * Christie will send out email

===== Reminders/Updates =====
  * Encouragement is good as well as constructive criticism
    * But push your students to continue to work hard
    * Do NOT let them think they are ahead and that they can take a break
    * Problems may come up down the road as well as studying for midterms that may push them back
  * Feedback is good
    * Would like feedback from mentors on how it is going
      * Constructive feedback only helps us to improve our current process
    * Would like feedback from teams on how it is going
      * Important in adjusting the project to suit their needs
  * Slack channel for EE296 students and mentors

===== Updates for 196/296 Teams =====
  * Project Badger
    * Arduino tutorials
    * Kyle working on XBee stuff
    * Preparing for presentation
      * Will solidify goals for semester
      * Possible projects
  * Team Nova
    * Finished Arduino tutorials
    * Learned how to crimp
    * Learned how to read a schematic
    * Made a Gantt chart
  * Team Black Hole
    * Finish Arduino tutorials
    * Will go over presentation for Saturday
    * Will review Gantt chart
  * Team Asteroid
    * Finished Arduino tutorials
    * Finished Gantt chart
    * Finished presentation
      * Brian will look over it
  * Team Rocket
    * Finished Gantt chart
    * Working on presentation
    * Starting Arduino tutorials today
  * Team Quasar
    * Finished Gantt chart
    * Working on presentation- almost done
    * Doing Arduino tutorials

===== Mentoring Feedback =====
  * Onboarding process
    * Straightfoward
    * No questions or confusion
  * Tutorials could have been sent out faster