Renzulli Center Seeks UConn Mentors for Young Scholars Program
A group of highly talented, motivated, diverse high school students from around the country will be visiting the UConn Storrs campus for a three-week residential program in summer 2018, and we seek mentors to support them in their academic growth. Supported by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the Young Scholars Senior Summit (YSSS) program will engage students in high-level learning in areas of their interest. (You can read more about the program and the award right here.) The goal is for students to work on authentic research projects with mentors who are experts in their disciplines.
The Renzulli Center for Creativity, Gifted Education, and Talent Development will coordinate the YSSS program by facilitating student placement at “mentorship sites” with faculty around the Storrs campus. We are seeking UConn faculty who would be willing to host YSSS participants in their labs and studios and work with them on projects in shared areas of interest. The YSSS participants will spend 6-7 hours per day at the mentorship site and may complete additional work in the evenings or on the weekends. Students’ time at the site would be a balance of developing background knowledge and engaging in inquiry and experiments around new questions.
Participants can assist in running trials of ongoing experiments, recording data, developing interpretations and questions, and engaging in other activities relevant to their particular sites. All students are expected to participate in an end-of-program conference, at which they will give presentations on their work and the expertise they have gained by participating in the program.
Stipends will be provided to mentors or mentorship sites for each participating YSSS student
For more information, contact: Lisa Muller at lisa.muller@uconn.edu