On 01/03/11 19:30, Wan-Teh Chang wrote:
I just expressed my interest in being a mentor for an NSS project on that page.
Do mentors need to propose projects? I thought it's the students who
should submit proposals as part of the applications. I think it's
better that way because it implies the student is motivated to solve
that particular problem. Please advise. Thanks.
Usually, we prefer mentors to propose projects because then we know that
the project is something the mentor is interested in mentoring, and we
can assess the project as being of an appropriate size and complexity.
What you could do is think of three or four things and propose them all,
and see what applications you get. Students often find it much easier to
see what interests them from a list of things. The alternative is asking
them to find out enough about NSS that they can suggest something
appropriate - and you may find you don't get anyone who wants to work on
NSS (as opposed to anything else) that much :-)
If you proposed multiple ideas, you would obviously not be asked to
mentor more than one of them (unless you wanted to). We could also add a
note particularly encouraging people to propose stuff themselves. But we
tend to find that better results are achieved if they talk it through
with someone before making an official submission.
Gerv
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