Mentor Project

What will mentors and mentees do together? 1. Get to know one another, get comfortable with each other 2. Build momentum, find a common ground, set goals  3. Periodically reflect on progress 4. Closure at the end of semester/term  Partnership levels - high school student + college student  - college student + professional  High school student + college student   linking **1. Get list of startup ideas from Attollo Scholars to begin possibly matching them with  Entrepreneurial Minor Students.  -  Wednesday, 9/26 Fireside Chat 7:00pm... **2. Sundae Challenge event invitation - 10/30 6:00pm **2. Do a mini start up weekend with teams!!!!!! OMGOMG (good timing for Attollo I think) - Could just be the students or could be campus inclusive.... or is that harder with high schooler involvement? **3. Add Workshop event to our calendar in spring, for time to work on their project in a space where they can utilize each other. College student   link

Identifying the need for this program is critical.  Facebook poll To get the opinion of locals I posted a poll on Facebook from our ELC account and my personal account. The results will be interesting I assume, I'll run them for a week. Post picture of the polls Results..so far They've been running for 4 days. My personal account is getting responses, the ELC... not so much. The results are completely opposite of what I expected. In fact, more people are interested in mentoring . There is still expressed interest in being mentored , though. Final results The numbers didn't change too much. Its a surprise to me to see that so many people said they would be interested in mentoring someone else. However, 4 people out of the 17 like the comment suggesting that both options were a good choice.  Here is some of the feedback I got on the poll other than the actual votes. Facebook only allowed for 2 questions, but "both" would have bee

Mentors in community 1. role model 2. measurable success 3. entrepreneurial status 4. respected network 4. interested in working with young people 5. flexible schedule  6. not unreasonably old 7. woman and men mentors 8. committed and prepared  9. positive and supportive  10. constructive guidance and feedback Connecting with students 1st tier: MU Entre. minor students mentor high school level Attollo students in start-up business plan. Students can work together on each others business plans, or partner in one plan. 2nd tier: Community members mentor MU Entre. minor students in business plans, resumes/interviews, career paths, life and more.  Partnerships * Connecting with one of these listed mentor groups to receive access to quality, filtered mentors.  Set up a communication platform, with mento and mentee bio's. Independent * Recruiting our own mentors in a similar fashion as the listed mentor programs.  Set up a communication p

Finding community resources Kids   - Young Men's Mentoring Program - Luthercare for Kids - Benchmark program College Students - Treehouse Mentor - Score - Mentor-- The National Mentoring Partnership - Lancaster Young Professionals - MentorCliq - Case Foundation - MU MMAP (v inactive) Both - Lancaster Young Professionals - Treehouse Mentor - Score - MU MMAP Good fits for partnering: Tree house mentor for independent students wanting to pickup a tech related skill such as coding. This could probably only be useful as a recourse. I don't think there's much potential for partnership or mentor recruitment from treehouse mentor. Score will likely be one of our strongest if not our strongest connection to a solid source of mentors. They offer free services which is also ideal for our target audience: students . Students an get just. About any level of mentoring they need on and offline. Psychology research On the Journal of Advanced Acad