RFC - HSL mentorship program

[Brett Neese]

I’d like to do some radical rethinking of our onboarding pipeline. We have a lengthy and hidden events interest form, but other than that we don’t have a good way to capture and engage people interested in the lab (new member orientation, in particular, is not really happening right now.) 

I’d like to propose something along the lines of a mentorship program. Here’s how I’m imagining it might work: in addition to the events form, we add a general interest form with basic details: name, interested in events y/n, interested in email updates y/n, interests (plain text). When people walk in either physically or via our digital presences we try to direct them to this form. 

When someone fills out the form we then try and match each person with a mentor that aligns with their interests who reaches out personally to start a conversation, send along the event interests form, and basically just guide them through the funnel all the way to new member orientation and beyond (not aggressively, but just as a point of contact).

In addition to the trivial form to add to our website, in order to make this happen we need a list of people willing to be mentors and form relationships with new community members which is why I’m bringing it up here for discussion.

Any thoughts? Does it solve a real problem? Do we think we can make this happen? If so, I’ll put together a proposal.

Brett

[John Cook]

Great idea. Thanks Brett How can I help?

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[Robert Bushman]

This is an excellent idea. Turning freshman fever into engagement has a
big compound effect. Whether Einstein remarked upon it or not,
exponential growth (aka: compound interest) is the engine of social
causes like HSL. I'd get involved if I were there.

Every hour of effort invested in this is a win for Heatsync!

On 12/8/25 00:55, John Cook wrote:
> Great idea. Thanks Brett How can I help?
>
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM Brett Neese <br...@neese.rocks> wrote:
>
> I’d like to do some radical rethinking of our onboarding pipeline.
> We have a lengthy and hidden events interest form, but other than
> that we don’t have a good way to capture and engage people
> interested in the lab (new member orientation, in particular, is not
> really happening right now.)
>
> I’d like to propose something along the lines of a mentorship
> program. Here’s how I’m imagining it might work: in addition to the
> events form, we add a general interest form with basic details:
> name, interested in events y/n, interested in email updates y/n,
> interests (plain text). When people walk in either physically or via
> our digital presences we try to direct them to this form.
>
> When someone fills out the form we then try and match each person
> with a mentor that aligns with their interests who reaches out
> personally to start a conversation, send along the event interests
> form, and basically just guide them through the funnel all the way
> to new member orientation and beyond (not aggressively, but just as
> a point of contact).
>

> *In addition to the trivial form to add to our website, in order to

> make this happen we need a list of people willing to be mentors and
> form relationships with new community members which is why I’m

> bringing it up here for discussion.*

>
> Any thoughts? Does it solve a real problem? Do we think we can make
> this happen? If so, I’ll put together a proposal.
>
> Brett
>
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