Mentoring Program

The Raleigh Bridge Club sponsors a mentoring program that pairs interested players with supportive mentors. The program fosters at-the-table learning, knowledge transfer from mentor to mentee and growth in confidence for the mentee. Details of the program:

• The program is open to dues-paying members of the RBC.
• Mentors (Life Masters) are paired with Mentees (Non-Life Masters) for one calendar year.
• Regular life master/non-life master partnerships are discouraged on mentoring nights
• Occasionally a mentor/mentee pair will exist for a second year if the first year has included unusual circumstances and if both players are agreeable.
• Pairs who are both non life masters may play on mentoring nights.
• Pairs who are both life masters may not play on mentoring nights.
• The 5th Tuesday and 5th Thursday of each month are designated as mentoring games.  Mentoring pairs play in each scheduled mentoring game or schedule a make-up game.
• There are 8 mentor/mentee games in 2020: February 27, March 31, April 30, June 30, July 30, September 29, October 29 (mentoring Swiss Teams), and December 29
• Mentees pay a $10 fee and mentors pay $5 at mentoring games.
• Mentoring games are stratified.
• Pairs may play SAYC, Standard American or 2/1.

Mentoring Pairs for 2020