What a mentor does.
Three mentors per cohort. Twenty-four students. You take eight. Students rotate across all three of you, so every student gets at least two sessions with each mentor over the twelve weeks. Three perspectives, three review styles, three sets of war stories. The rotation is the design.
The three-mentor model
Every cohort runs with three named roles. The split is by phase and by temperament, not by seniority.
Lead mentor
~30% of mentor hoursBuild mentor
~40% of mentor hoursGovern mentor
~30% of mentor hoursThe weekly rhythm
The cadence is the same every week, so it becomes muscle memory by Week 3.
| Activity | Cadence | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| 1:1 calls | Biweekly, 45 min | With each assigned student. Rotating, so you see all eight across two weeks. |
| Rubric review | Weekly, written | Grade the week's deliverable. A sharp two-paragraph review, anchored to the rubric. |
| Live session | ~1 per month | Co-facilitate alongside CM. Not lecturing. Holding the room to the standard. |
| Capstone review | Weeks 10 to 12 | Evaluate and sign off the final shipped system, with the other two mentors. |
What you are not doing
You are not writing curriculum. You are not building slides. You are not chasing students who go quiet (the Operations team owns that, you flag it). You are not on call at all hours. The hours are bounded and the definition of done is written down.
What sits behind the gate
Once you are an active mentor, the handbook gives you the operating detail: how to run the 1:1, how to write a rubric that lands, the Week 0 scoping script, the capstone sign-off, and the escalation paths when a student is struggling. Those pages are marked with a small lock in the sidebar and open after your access is granted.