Adult Mentors

Each of the teams entering the ICT Youth Challenge is required to have an Adult Mentor to support them through their competition journey. The role of ‘Adult Mentor’ can be fulfilled by a teacher, youth group leader, parent or other suitably responsible person that the team should nominate. As an adult mentor your role is to be the responsible adult that accompanies the teams to the events and offers them some guidance and support away from the events while they develop their ideas e.g. helping them gain access to school computers, relevant research materials, and giving them some encouragement wherever needed.

If your team should get to the HotHouse stage of the competiton an adult is required to be onsite at the residential centre for each of the 5 days between 8pm and 8am. Obviously we realise this is a substantial commitment therefore each team can have a number of suitably responsible adults who share the duty.

The amount of commitment from an Adult Mentor is dependant on how far your team goes, but in general adults should expect to give between 1-7 days throughout the year comprising of:

- 1 day attending the First Pitch stage in January 2009
- 1 day at the Forum stage in March 2009
- 5 evenings at the HotHouse event at the end of June 2009

If you would like further information on what’s involved in becoming an ‘Adult Mentor’ please email teams@youth-challenge.co.uk.