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advisor is the soft skill program for Students of the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology. The one-year program focuses on freshmen students, which want to gain more experiences within their academic career and choose to grow with real challenges. We aim to train young students in more than just their field of study - to evolve into engineers who understand themselves and those around them, who can inspire and animate their peers. The concept behind this is a trinity of knowledge, methodology and personal experience, to be gained and tested by working in teams on an engineering project. For one semester the advisees - the participating freshmen - will learn methods and background knowledge concerning softskills. Weekly workshops will teach them ways to manage their time and resources, to give constructive, useful feedback and to handle the task of managing a project. The adveisees are given a specified project and are asked to develop their own project plan to tackle it. In the second semester they will execute their plan. In groups of 9 to 15 people the advisees will construct their planned project according to the specifications. In recent years the advisee teams developed Rubik's Cube Solvers, miniature Segways, rotor displays, autonomous vehicles and built machines to throw balls or solve Sudokus. Along the way the advisees will experience what it means to work in a team, including the challenges they will have to master and the dynamics a team can develop. As nobody understands the advisees better, our tutors are still students themselves, normally in their second or third year. These so called advisors are coached by professional trainers in three seminars, that span multiple days, to be able to pass on their knowledge and experiences. Each advisor is responsible for one team of advisees, propagating their gained knowledge within workshops in the first semester and accompanying them during the completion of their project in the second.