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WILLIAM LI: This
year, we had a number

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of students who had taken
the class before who

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we are interested in
being involved in some way

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and acting as
mentors for projects.

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And so what happened was every
week in our Wednesday afternoon

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labs, the teams of students
would meet with their mentor,

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and give them an update,
and get feedback from them

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on their project progress.

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[? I ?] think the one core
reason of doing this this year

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was to really draw on the
experiences of our mentors,

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having gone through the entire
process in a previous semester

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and also being very passionate
about assistive technology

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and passionate about how we
go about teaching this class,

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and also to try to keep teams
on track, to really understand

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the different milestones,
the different deadlines

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and iterations that are
important to be able to deliver

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a successful project,
a successful prototype

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by the end of the course.

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I think overall it was
successful in terms

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of having that personal
interaction with somebody

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with some experience to guide
teams along in the process.