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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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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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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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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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"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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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 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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"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 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://www.dese.state.mo.us/divimprove/gifted/SummerOpportunitieslist.html
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TutorNation.com is an efficient way for parents, students and learners of all ages to find and connect with reliable tutors and instructors in academic and non-academic subjects. Our website is designed to allow instructors to easily and efficiently promote their services. Students and parents are able to locate individuals or businesses that match their tutoring needs with a few mouse clicks.
http://www.tutornation.com/
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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/Publications/Parenting/mentorchildp8-11dec01.pdf
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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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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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