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FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a multinational non-profit organization that sponsors this competition, which teams professional and high school students to solve engineering problems. Get a hands-on, inside look at the engineering profession by designing, assembling and testing a robot.
http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/
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The Quest Scholars Program was founded on a firm belief in the potential and ability of the nation's most talented under-served students. The organization includes two programs--QuestBridge, and QuestLeadership. Both programs are free of charge to participants.
http://questscholars.stanford.edu/
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Founded in 1991, the Young Scientist Program is designed to attract high school students from disadvantaged backgrounds into scientific careers through activities emphasizing hands-on research and individualized contact between young people and active scientists.
http://medicine.wustl.edu/~ysp/
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"The Achievement Advocate Online Mentoring Community was founded in 2000 by Student Achievement and Advocacy Services, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to helping students maximize their potential. The Achievement Advocate program is staffed by educators experienced in distance learning and curriculum development. The program is built on the belief that barriers to student success are often more than financial. Help us break patterns of failure for children who simply need extra support and encouragement to succeed!"
http://www.achievementadvocate.org/
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This non-profit organization's mission seeks to improve the lives of children by recognizing their fullest potential and providing them with the inspiration and tools to meet their objectives. They offer a variety of programs to support this mission. Visit the website to find fun and exciting contests, a "mentoring hub" which will connect you to a range of positive role models and more - all in support of excellence!
http://www.amazing-kids.org/
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The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a non-profit organization founded in 1971. Their continuing goal is to encourage women in the mathematical sciences. AWM currently has more than 4,100 members (women and men) representing a broad spectrum of the mathematical community — from the United States and around the world!
http://www.awm-math.org/
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The Electronic Emissary is a Web-based telementoring service and resource center that helps kindergarten through grade 12 teachers and students with Internet access locate mentors who are experts in various disciplines, for purposes of setting up curriculum-based electronic exchanges among the teachers, their students, and the mentors. In this way, the interaction that occurs among teachers and students face-to-face in the classroom is supplemented and extended by electronic mail, Web forum, chat, and teleconferencing exchanges that occur among...
http://emissary.wm.edu/
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For more than a decade, MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership has been leading the effort to connect America's young people with caring adult mentors. MENTOR was created in 1990 by financiers and philanthropists Geoff Boisi and Ray Chambers.
http://www.mentoring.org
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The Pinnacle Project is a unique gathering in that it brings together established, emerging, and potential talent in an intra-and interdisciplinary context at a week-long summit. Participants include established masters in the arts and sciences, outstanding researchers and professionals beginning careers (for each discipline), and extraordinarily talented high school students (one in each of the disciplines).
Each discipline and profession cares deeply about nurturing the next generation of talent. From the research literature we know, h...
http://www.apa.org/ed/cgepaboutpin.html
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"The Role Models Program, sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education, was founded in 1992 as an effort to identify from minority and/or economically disadvantaged populations the most promising student scholars interested in studies leading to careers in the sciences, technology and related business areas. Since its inception, the Role Models Program (RMP) has guided over 1,100 students to complete their high school educations with distinction and successfully pursue advanced studies in some of the leading universities and colleges thr...
http://www.cee.org/rmlp/index.shtml
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"The Academy of Achievement is like no other organization in the world. For more than 40 years, this unique non-profit entity has sparked the imagination of students across America and around the globe by bringing them into direct personal contact with the greatest thinkers and achievers of the age. The annual International Achievement Summit has provided thousands of outstanding students with an unforgettable, life changing experience – one in which young people whose dreams will determine our collective tomorrow draw inspiration, courage and ...
http://www.achievement.org/
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The International Telementor Program (ITP) facilitates electronic mentoring relationships between professional adults and students worldwide, and is recognized as the leader in the field of academic based mentoring. Since 1995 over 15,000 students throughout nine countries have received support, encouragement, and professional guidance. ITP serves students in K-12 and home school environments as well as college and university settings.
http://www.telementor.org/
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IMentor's mission is to improve the lives of young people from underserved communities in New York City through innovative, technology-based approaches to youth mentoring and education. They work with schools, after-school programs, community technology centers, and other youth development agencies that serve young people from low-income neighborhoods.
http://www.imentor.org
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This organization has several educational programs for precollege and undergraduate students. Some of the opportunities available include shadowing an employee, being a student research intern or being a student apprentice (must be a Tri-Cities student for many of the programs). There is also professional development workshops available to teachers.
http://science-ed.pnl.gov/
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This guidebook from the Davidson Institute Team specifically designed to help parents and students interested in developing a mentorship. The guidebook will help you answer such questions as: Is a mentoring partnership appropriate? How do I locate a mentor? What kind of relationship is most beneficial? Use as an information guide to help establish, maintain, and conclude a mentorship.
http://print.ditd.org/Mentor_guidebook.pdf
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The Mentoring Group provides worldwide consulting/technical assistance, skill-based training, skill assessment, research/evaluation, and publications related to mentoring.
http://www.mentoringgroup.com/
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"Making Mathematics matches students and teachers in grades seven through twelve with professional mathematicians who mentor them via electronic mail as they work on open-ended mathematics research projects."
http://www2.edc.org/makingmath/
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This article, published by the National Association of Gifted Children, counsels on the value and effectiveness of qualified, well-chosen mentors. The article would be a good start for anyone interested in learning about mentorship.
http://www.nagc.org/CMS400Min/index.aspx?id=1163
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This piece of literature, hosted by Questia, deals with mentorship’s, mentor programs for gifted students, the use of role models in gifted education, and the heroes of gifted children as compared to those of the general population. Written by authors Mary K. Pleiss and John F. Feldhusen.
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=77005906
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In this article, Nancy Lashaway-Bokina describes effective mentoring and motivational techniques. She covers methods of guiding lower-income students and highlights one teacher's unique motivational ideas.
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This is a true success story of a young boy who initially had an opportunity to learn at his own pace with a mentor. After he began to excel in this area, he was able to formally accelerate within the school system. "I guess the thing that impresses people the most when they hear about our son is that he started to college at age ten. Actually it all came about in such a normal way that it really didn't seem unusual at the time."
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/best_thing.htm
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Register and choose your own e-mentor; connect with graphic designers, engineers, nurses, musicians, doctors, fashion designers, carpenters, veterinarians and hundreds of others. All communications happen on the website. Comments from one student: "I always thought that music was all about being famous. Now I know that fame is not necessarily the measure for success. I learned that the music business becomes your life, not because of all the V.I.P parties, but because of the hard work. I've also learned that if I truly start to consider my l...
http://www.icouldbe.org/standard/default.asp
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The Apprenticeship Program offers exceptionally gifted high school students the opportunity to learn and work side by side with experts in the fields of robotics, aerodynamics, earth science, and journalism, among others. Students spend two weeks in an intensive residential program working as a group but on an individual project as well. Each student will continue to pursue his/her project throughout the school year with the support of both their summer mentor and The Institute for Educational Advancement. Students are invited to present their...
http://www.educationaladvancement.org/programs/students/apprenticeship/overview.php
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Sponsored by University of Missouri - St. Louis, Washington University, and St. Louis University -- Provides study, research, and mentorship opportunities in various fields of scientific enterprise for students in grades 10 through college. Continues through academic school year.
http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/gifted/resources/SummerOpportunitieslist.html
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A brilliantly written book, about what, at the very highest level, can be taught: not information, but investigative style. Apprentice to Genius carries the reader behind the scenes to watch the almost magical cascade of ideas and experiments that are laying the human mind bare - and which, when added together, probably sum up to the greatest discovery of our century.
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This is one of the books in Prufrock Press' popular Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education and offers practical strategies for starting and developing a mentoring program. From structuring a program, selecting a mentor, and monitoring progress, to ensuring success, editors Karnes and Stephens, provide an excellent introduction to the topic.
http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=558
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Some students learn best in mentorship programs - either as an alternative educational experience or as an added component of a traditional education. For many students, mentorships provide an ideal setting in which students can excel in an area of interest. Successful mentorships, however, are not easy to establish. This book describes a highly successful mentorship program in "how to" terms that are easily applied and adaptable to a variety of situations.
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Encourage students to excel in their areas of interest and talent by building a mentor program. In this comprehensive "starter kit," you will find methods for helping students identify their areas of interest, strategies for recruiting effective mentors, ideas for helping nurture mentor-mentee relationships, and systems for growing your mentor program. The kit includes all the material you will need to develop your own school-wide mentoring program. This is a complete "nuts and bolts" program that has been used for more than 10 years in schools...
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Inspiring memoir by the Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York. He is a wonderful role model for young people considering a career in science. This book is very readable and humorous.
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The Virginia Governor's Mentorship for Engineering serves students selected from across the commonwealth in grades 11 – 12 through an intensive five-week program. Fill out Academic and Mentorship Summer Residential Governor’s School Application.
http://www.pen.k12.va.us
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UConn Mentor Connection is a summer program for rising high school juniors and seniors located at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. We believe students' interests, abilities, and motivation are very important talents. We also believe that it is essential for students to have opportunities to manifest their talents in high levels of creative productivity. The programs run in July of each year and have been designed to provide students with opportunities to participate in creative projects and investigations under the supervision of univ...
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/mentoruc.html
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