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A Guide To Bring Technovation to Your Community
Find Your Team
Bringing Technovation to a community is a team experience! Here are the different types of leaders you’ll want to identify to be involved:
What they’ll do
Communicate withTechnovation
Coordinate logistics
Handle finances &partnerships
Communicate with the Mentors & participantsWho they might be
Note: We encourage programs to have multiple ambassadors to share the responsibilities!
Administrators
Teacher leaders
Site directors
Program staff
There are a variety of ways that Mentors may engage in your program depending on your structure. Below are two roles that Mentors may have
What they’ll do
Meet regularly withstudent teams
Facilitate learning asstudents access the
curriculum
Support students as theydevelop their projects
Who they might be
Teachers
Program staff
Corporate or community volunteers
University faculty or students
Parents
What they’ll do
Provide technicalexpertise to support app
& business development
May meet with studentsregularly or provide a
one-off session
Who they might be
Tip: This can be a great way to make partnerships with local
corporations or business!
Tech professionals
Business owners
University faculty
Train Your Team
Proper training is essential for Mentors to provide a high quality learning experience for students.
Ensure Mentors have completed Technovation’s self-paced training, which is available through their Technovation accounts.
If you want, you can incorporate parts of this training into your local training.
View the mentor training here.
What to Include in Mentor Training
Be clear on what you expect from the mentors.
Are you expecting them to take an active role in content instruction or be a guide for student-driven learning?
What does it mean for them to come prepared to the meetings? 
This will depend on the age and autonomy of your students.
Discuss how the curriculum is structured and how to use it to support student learning.
Tips:
- Make sure your Mentors are comfortable navigating the Mentor Curriculum and the Student Curriculum – especially how to find the customizable activity sheets!
- Facilitators can use and customize these slides for every unit of the curriculum
- Have the mentors try out key activities and lessons themselves! This helps them understand the students’ perspective.
Here are a few lessons that are good for Mentor training:
How you teach content is just as important as WHAT you teach! Focus on best practices for fostering inquiry and design-thinking among the students.
Want to see mentor training resources from other ambassadors? Do you have mentor training resources to share?
Access this folder of ambassador-shared mentor training resources.