STEM Mentors Needed

Join us as a volunteer mentor to help low-income college students find success!! Apply at: www.mentoringproject.org. Mentors can provide short-term career information or longer-term guidance overcoming obstacles to graduation.

The Mentoring Project is e-mentoring program partnering with Seattle Colleges. Join a small team of dedicated mentors who have these essential qualities:

1. Resourceful in navigating college-based resources.
2. Non-judgmental and accepting of differences.
3. Reliable, consistent and punctual.
4. Good listening and communication skills.
5. Ability to take apart complex problems and identify solutions and strategies.
6. Degree from a college or university.
7. Willing to share about your career or academic path when relevant.

We are looking for mentors from following fields:

Bio Medical Sciences

Chemical Engineering

Computer Sciences

Doctor of Medicine

Electrical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Nursing/Nurse Practitioner

Or any other fields related to STEM.

Preferred qualities and experience might include having struggled to stay in college, early professionals or near-peer, first-generation in family to attend college, bi-lingual and/or identified as a part of a minority group while attending college or university. Please meet some of our current mentors and find the application at www.mentoringproject.org.

Mentors:

1. Commit to working with your student(s) for at least one academic term; or if just for career mentoring typically 1-3 sessions.
2. Check-in weekly with the student by email, text, Zoom or other electronic methods.
3. Respect the student for "who they are" and strive to better understand and appreciate the student’s background in regard to race, religion, culture or economic circumstances or other differences.
4. Listen to student's needs, serve as a resource about campus and community support and services, encourage your student to believe in their own capacity to succeed and check-in on their progress seeking out and implementing solutions to obstacles.

Specifically, mentors:

1. Steer students toward campus advisors, specialists and resources and assist them to navigate:
2. Registration for the next term.
3. An academic plan.
4. Financial aid applications.
5. Engagement in campus activities and programs.
6. Career exploration and connecting education to career.
7. Identify barriers and establish goals for overcoming obstacles.