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Mentorship Meeting #1 - January 21, 2016
Attended: Zach, Brandon, Brian, Garrett, Kim, Ryan
Updates
- First Week Tasks
- Onboarding wiki
- Email Sent Out
- Progress Sheet
- Christie will share on Drive
- Put in date when team completed
- Check on their progress
- Make sure all issues resolved are on the wiki
- Information Flow
- Mentors check team knows all info in emails
- Weatherbox Project
- Working out details
- Will send out parts, schematics, & docs by early next week
- Due by Spring Break
- At least have significant work done
- Fablab Access
- Give access to mentors
- Training for mentors on how to use the equipment
- Zach will talk to Garmire
- Calendar invites
- Make sure the mentors are invited to the meetings
Updates for 296 teams
- Team Asteroid
- Communication issues for meeting
- Team Rocket
- Finished all the onboarding tasks
- Goals for next week
- look at readings
- Team Nova
- Finished all the onboarding tasks
- Goals for next week
- Eagle tutorials will be sent out this week
- Soldering tutorials sometime around
- Team Quasar
- Finished all the onboarding tasks
- Will check on them tomorrow
- Goals for next week
- Look at Github
- Look at hardware team's wiki pages
- Group #2
- Will check up on them tomorrow
Random Notes
- Make sure team comes in during lab hours
- If cannot, contact Christie and their mentor
- Make sure a veteran is in here if you cannot make it
Reflection on Mentoring
- What we should be talking about
- Onboarding tasks are done by due date
- Emphasize communication and how to communicate
- Encourage asking questions
- Improvements
- Provide them with the schedule sooner
- Mentors can give feedback
- Have them make their own schedules with general goals
- Everyone has access
- Compare specific schedule and give feedback
Reminders
- Presentations
- February - Proposal/PDR - 5 minutes
- March - Design (CDR) - 8 minutes w/ 7 min Q&A
- April - Final - 8 minutes + 2 Q&A
What to talk about next week
- Make sure first week tasks are completed
- Start tutorials
- Release project docs to them