{"id":232,"date":"2025-05-13T06:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T06:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/bioplastics\/?page_id=232"},"modified":"2025-05-13T06:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T06:44:06","slug":"mentors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/bioplastics\/en\/rules\/mentors\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentors"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"232\" class=\"elementor elementor-232\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-29e0751 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"29e0751\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-40fc326\" data-id=\"40fc326\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b7e4d37 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b7e4d37\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mentors provide volunteer support and guidance to Teams during the Bio Plastics Challenge. Mentors are optional, and Teams are not required to include a Mentor in their Team Profile to compete in the Bio Plastics Challenge. Teams may select their own Mentor(s). Mentors are registered at the time of Team registration. Mentors may not participate, or be present, in the Team presentations during the Finals (see E. Competition Rounds, Selection and Awarding of Winners). There is no restriction regarding the age, nationality, experience, or education of the Mentors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The following individuals are ineligible to participate as mentors:\u00a0<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">YABT staff, Board members, and national chapters.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TIC Americas judges.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Organization of American States\u2019 General Secretariat personnel.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Immediate family or household members of anyone mentioned above.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mentors participate on a voluntary basis and will not be paid by the team, by YABT, OAS, Sponsors, Bio Plastics Challenge, or other partners.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mentors provide volunteer support and guidance to Teams during the Bio Plastics Challenge. Mentors are optional, and Teams are not required to include a Mentor in their Team Profile to compete in the Bio Plastics Challenge. Teams may select their own Mentor(s). Mentors are registered at the time of Team registration. Mentors may not participate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-232","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/bioplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/bioplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/bioplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/bioplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/bioplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/bioplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/bioplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232\/revisions\/272"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/bioplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/bioplastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}