WILLIAM LI: This year, we had a number
of students who had taken the class before who
we are interested in being involved in some way
and acting as mentors for projects.
And so what happened was every week in our Wednesday afternoon
labs, the teams of students would meet with their mentor,
and give them an update, and get feedback from them
on their project progress.
[? I ?] think the one core reason of doing this this year
was to really draw on the experiences of our mentors,
having gone through the entire process in a previous semester
and also being very passionate about assistive technology
and passionate about how we go about teaching this class,
and also to try to keep teams on track, to really understand
the different milestones, the different deadlines
and iterations that are important to be able to deliver
a successful project, a successful prototype
by the end of the course.
I think overall it was successful in terms
of having that personal interaction with somebody
with some experience to guide teams along in the process.