On 9/2/2010 9:21 AM, Rahul Akolkar wrote:
Original Ideas are good
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Past experience has shown that if a student proposes their own idea and it
is accepted the student is going to be strong.
PROPOSAL
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Add the following to the mentor ranking:
Is the project definition and idea originally the mentee's, the
mentor's or a collaborative effort? (0-2 points, 2 if mentee's idea, 1
if collaborative, 0 if mentor's)
I am still not such a big fan of the "original idea" points in a
standards base product and marking down for collaboration where we want
to encourage interaction with the community.
One minor clarification I would like to see made is in this item:
* How does the mentor rate the student's chances of success, based
on an in-person (face-to-face, video, audio, email) interview?
(0-3 points, or 0-1 if email interview only)
To add an IRC interview as one of the 0-3 options. Our students the
last two summers have mostly been from Sri Lanka and China and so other
options hard to coordinate. Even the IRC interview will require someone
getting up in the middle of the night.
