MP Internship participation experience for
What coaches take away from being a participant in this internship experience.
MP coaches gain:
a level up on their own MP skills with support from advanced MP users
opportunities to practice new modeling techniques that are transferable to their own projects
collegial interactions with and support from experienced coaches from previous program events
acknowledgement in work products from assisted teams, including presentations and models
access to free Monterey Phoenix digital products, developments, and updates
continued access to the internship digital workspace to keep in touch with the mentors, students, and other MP coaches for at least a year
advice and coaching on their own MP modeling projects
What coaches agree to provide as a participant in this internship experience.
Time commitment:
Preparation activities prior to the on-site portion of the experience (support as mutually agreeable)
On-site participation and regular attendance (support as mutually agreeable)
Availability:
Attend meetings as able to help students express behavior for their assigned topic in the MP language
Participate in “coach the coach” meetings where they discuss the more challenging bugs or problems with peers
Coaching:
Guide students as they develop work products and help them extend their MP modeling skills
Share with the students common model errors and bugs they have seen in other teams/models, and advice on how to fix them
Coaches are not expected to be familiar with the subject matter being modeled. Coaches specifically help tackle MP questions or modeling challenges.
"Serving as a Monterey Phoenix model coach over the last four years has been an excellent experience. I have enjoyed delivering group lessons, sharing recommendations for structuring MP models, and assisting with debugging efforts. While on-site during the last two summers, it was especially rewarding to see the students detect and control emergent system behaviors in real-time. I have gained new skills through coaching on topics such as state machine building, nested coordination, and composite event sharing. These techniques prove to be highly applicable to subsequent programs and also to my own MP models and research projects. I look forward to collaborating with the new teams during this summer’s internship."
Coach since 2021
"Coaching others in MP allows you to not only bring your experienced perspective to the table, but broaden the perspective of some of the rising thinkers and leaders of the next generation. Coaching a team in MP takes your passion for a particular subject and dives deep into a conversation understanding the relationships within that subject and showing how simple changes can make a massive impact on outcomes."
Coach for Cohorts 2 and 3
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