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Mentor Responsibilities
The first and foremost
responsibility of a mentor is to encourage and support less-experienced
students so as to help them become reasonably confident and capable
computer science majors. This is primarily accomplished throubh lab
support
and individual tutoring. Ideally, a good mentor will take extra steps
to make
students feel like they are not alone in their struggle to master the
early computer science courses. (If mentors wish to organize a more
social interaction with their students, they should feel free to
contact Dr. Hartness if they need any help.)
In order to ensure that we have a good supply of new students
to support in CS 146, mentors will be asked to help with another
purpose of the grant, namely to encourage high school students to start
preparing for a technology-related major and recruit new students into
the CS major. Visiting high schools, manning a booth during Saturday at
Sam, and helping to develop recruiting materials are all part of this
effort. Also, we hold a high school counselor workshop and a high
school teacher workshop that can also benefit from the support of our
mentors.
If you have extra time, say at the start of the semester, consider seeing if you can improve any of these presentation materials (coordinate with other mentors so you don't duplicate each others work):
careerpaths.ppt
mathInCS.ppt
mathInCS2.ppt
teachers-students.ppt
nerdy.ppt
teacher-careers.ppt
Robocode.ppt
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