Mentoring by design
Themes
Mentors apply these themes to leverage points to design an intern project experience that is more productive and will improve the intern’s overall experience.
01. STEM PRACTICES
Highly valued reasoning processes used by scientists and engineers that can be practiced, coached, and learned by interns in a real world context.
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02. OWNERSHIP AND AGENCY
The empowering feeling interns gain when they are challenged by an authentic problem and make choices that enable them figure it out on their own.
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03. RECOGNITION
The ways that interns can be recognized for things that matter by people that matter – such that interns build their identity as engineers or scientists.
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04. SENSE OF BELONGING
The sense felt by interns and their colleagues that the intern is an integral part of a group and valued for who they are and what they bring to the team.
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Leaders and Funding
This website is based on the work for the Akamai Workforce Initiative led by the Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators at University of California, Santa Cruz.
Development of this website was funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the National Science Foundation (AST#1743117 & AST#2034962), and the Hawaii Community Foundation.
Address
Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators
Mailstop: UCO/Lick Obs ISEE
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Email: isee@ucsc.edu