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Mentoring is a relationship in which knowledge and skills are shared between members in a way in which everyone benefits. Often a more senior person is mentoring a junior person, but mentorship can happen between any two individuals. Mentoring will help Airmen and Guardians discover their strengths by achieving their full potential through a structured, trusting mentoring relationship.

 

 

GET INVOLVED

Find a mentor and become a mentor!  It’s easy to do both by registering in MyVector.  In 2021, we completely redesigned the Mentoring platform in MyVector based on your feedback. New features include:

  • Ability to self-identify as someone seeking a mentor or someone who wants to be a mentor
  • Track the status of their mentoring requests
  • Updated Resources page
  • Enhanced messaging capability that allows users to send messages to mentors
  • Additional search filters:
  • ethnicity, race, disability, Exceptional Family Members Program (EFMP), MAJCOM, organizations, and ranks
  • Ability for mentees to share documents with mentor
  • Sister Service mentor/mentee enabled capability
  • CFM ability to assign mentors to mentees (Spring 2022)

Log into MyVector, check out the new capabilities, and find your mentor today at https://myvector.us.af.mil!

 

 
QuEST (2025-08-08) Intern “Rising Talent” Outbrief Presentations
Air Force Research Laboratory
Video by Kevin D Schmidt
Aug. 8, 2025 | 59:41
In this edition of QuEST, highlights our in-house rising talent

Abstract:

Pain experiences of humans are still widely researched and debated, but using what we currently know about a pain experience can lead to further development of uses of AI in real life scenarios. By comparing pain experiences in humans and the sensed stress, mechanical breakdown, and other factors that affect collaborative combat aircrafts (CCAs), how can we further develop CCAs to be more capable of completing not only their own jobs, but also more capable of being assets in reaching a target or completing a mission other than their own? In other words, how do we make CCAs antifragile rather than unbreakable? Comparisons will be drawn between human anatomy and physiology and CCAs in order to determine possible future routes.

Key Moments and Questions in the video include:

-Natalie “Chronic” Ryan-Summer intern
-Pain and CCAs: Summer 2025
-4th summer with ACT3 and Cap as a mentor
-Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA)
-Possibilities
-Possible Failures
-Consequences
-Human Pain
-Gate Control Theory
-Muscle Hypertrophy
-Antifragility
-Making CCAs Antifragile
-Use of Pain
-QuEST Contributions
-CCAs
-William “Bedcheck” Crane
-An Applied Category Theoretic Approach to the Compositional Optimizations of Co-Design Problems
-A Definition of Co-Design, and Co-Design Problems
-How to Become God, Step One
-A Need for Compositional Optimization
-How to Become a God, Step Two
-Methodology: Modeling via Job-Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP)
-Applied Category Theory (ACT) as the Language of Compositional Design: formalizing co-design through categorical structure
-And Now Implementation - Algebraic Julia & Catlab.jl
-Lessons Learned -> Embrace Humility
-My Question on Qualia
-1st Lt Cameron Goodbar
-Emergent Synergy: A functional Interpretation of Consciousness
-Bottom Line Up Front
-Let’s back Up
-Let’s Start Small
-Moving Up the Chain
-Off We Go… More

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INSTALLATION MENTORING CHALLENGE

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In observance of National Mentoring Month, we have a goal of increasing Airman and Guardian mentoring profiles and pairs by 20%. The winning installation will have the opportunity to participate in a virtual mentoring session.