ARRL TO ESTABLISH MENTORING PROGRAMS
 

To help new licensees and those seeking to expand their horizons get more
out of Amateur Radio, the ARRL Board of Directors has approved development
of a four-level set of Amateur Radio mentoring programs. Proposed by the
Volunteer Resources Committee, the programs will be designed this year.
The mentoring program levels will be known as ARRL Club Mentor, ARRL
Mentor, Interactive Mentor and Special Interest Mentor.

The ARRL Club Mentor will involve the participation of ARRL-affiliated
clubs in close cooperation with ARRL Headquarters staff. Affiliated clubs
will be encouraged to actively participate in this program to "mainstream"
more people, licensed and otherwise, into Amateur Radio. The club mentor
program also has the additional benefit of potentially increasing a club's
membership as well.

The ARRL Mentor program will work through ARRL Headquarters. An ARRL
mentor is a person with an interest in mentoring--or "Elmering"--new
licensees who may or may not be members of an ARRL-affiliated club. ARRL
Headquarters staff will support these mentors, who must be ARRL members.

The Interactive Mentor is intended to aid enterprising new hams via the
ARRL Web site by providing answers to basic questions and through forums,
where discourse between new hams and mentors would help new hams to get on
the air.

The Special Interest Mentor is intended to match people with interests in
advanced, specialized areas of Amateur Radio technology with mentors who
are experienced in these technologies. The ARRL Web site would refer
interested members to special interest Web sites and reflectors as part of
this mentoring effort.

 

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