Order of Operations:

• November + December 2025:

  • Order materials
  • Stinger Mentors read Instruction manual
    • leave comments

• January 12 2025: Classes Start

  • Last Year: Org Fair Jan 31
    • this year maybe january 30 or the week after?
    • less than 3 weeks of recruiting + dev before new people
  • Tentatively new members meeting is Tuesday Feb 3 or Thursday Feb 5
    • Stinger Tug Lecture 1 on Feb 10th
    • Feb 19th - 24th is RoboBoat
      • likely stinger tug coaches gone

• April 24th (2 more days before exams)

  • 14 weeks + 4 days
  • Fall 2025 Training was Sept 9th - Nov 15th (9 weeks + 4 days)
  • 9 weeks + 4 days from Feb 10th 2026 is April 16th

Stinger Tug Coach (mentor)

• Responsibilities:
  • Meet your group in person at the first Stinger Tug Lecture or sometime that week
  • Communicate any critical deadlines to your group
    • Sign up for Epoxy
    • Fill out survey
    • Get building access
    • etc
  • Meet weekly (preferably in person) with your group to see progress; check in on member engagement; and help direct them to solutions
  • Help develop promising new members and direct them to relevant interest areas

Improvments to Stinger Tug Training

• Explicit dry test procedure
• MRG sim pc ssh
• front ballast - add to manual
• Reusable hulls
• Software + Soldering Hours in First week
  • more guided software setup
• Key on the Stinger Shelf for where components are
• Stinger Teams coordinate when they’re in the lab;
  • doesn’t necessarily have to be when your mentor is
• Improvements Group tracking