Help encourage high school juniors and seniors from Channel Islands and Hueneme High Schools by serving as a mentor in the speed mentoring activity during the 2019 Engineering Innovation Summer Bridge Program, hosted by CSU Channel Islands and Oxnard Union High School District. STEM professionals are needed for a speed mentoring event on Friday, June 21, 2019 from 10 am to 12 pm at the CSU Channel Islands campus. This amazing opportunity pairs a small group of high school students with a STEM professional in order to provide them with vital mentoring information about STEM college and career pathways. You do not have to be an engineer to participate in this speed mentoring session.

The Engineering Innovation Summer Bridge Program is a joint effort between Oxnard Union High School District and CSUCI with support from Bank of America, Pentair Foundation, and Arconic Foundation. Come out and help inspire the next generation of STEM professionals!

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Interested individuals can sign up here.

More information is on the VC STEM Mentoring Website.

About This Opportunity 

Dates and Times

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Friday, June 21, 2019 with free parking and a box lunch provided to mentors.

Who They Are Looking For

They are looking for STEM professionals from across a broad range of science disciplines to participate as STEM mentors during the Speed Mentoring Activity. You do not have to be an engineer to participate in this mentoring opportunity.

Requirements

This opportunity requires the volunteer to provide information about their STEM career as well as their STEM college and career pathway.

Commitment

Two hours of time spent on short, focused conversations about specific questions related to your STEM career and pathway with high school students. These conversations involve a small group of mentees (2 – 4 high school students) interacting with a STEM mentor. Mentees rotate to several mentors to obtain a diverse perspective on STEM pathways.

Days mentors are needed

Friday, June 21, 2019 

How to prepare

Think about your story of how you became interested in STEM as a future profession . Communicate to the students any challenges that you encountered along your journey to becoming a STEM professional and how you overcame those challenges. 

Topics of interest
Your STEM Profession or field
STEM career pathways within your field
Your STEM college pathway

Age group

High school rising juniors and seniors (ages 16 – 19) 

About the organization

California State University Channel Islands offers an innovative and student-centered education for undergraduates, graduates and those seeking to enhance their careers—and their lives—through our certificate/credential programs.

Oxnard Union High School District is a union high school district for communities on the Oxnard Plain including the cities of Oxnard, Port Hueneme, and Camarillo, California that also serves surrounding unincorporated areas of El Rio, Somis and the adjacent beach neighborhoods.