Youth led projects ranged from promoting literacy through charitable initiatives in Mumbai, creating a documentary on what extreme poverty is like while living on just a few US dollars a day, to running simple small scale mentor organizations in New Jersey high schools.
Thirteen finalists emerged as having the most viable plans to dramatically scale STEM mentoring in their respective cities.
Although levels of self-esteem have been measured (also using Rosenberg's Scale) in mentoring programmes for college students [ 25], to our knowledge self-esteem has not been studied within an academic mentoring context.
For Mr. Weglarz's students, it is a full-scale mentoring relationship with the potential to change lives.
Efforts should focus more on using public funds to educate poor communities about the factors critical for academic success, such as parental involvement, regular reading habits, good nutrition and large-scale mentoring programs.
As the enterprises prepare for scaling, mentors or instructors fluent in these concepts help each enterprise apply them to "conduct a rigorous analysis of its business model, the market, and the external environment" and "present convincing applications for funding" (see Omidyar Network's April, 2013 Accelerating Entrepreneurship in Africa report).
I, personally, would like to see this done on a huge scale, where identifying, mentoring and supporting such candidates can be done to help get them elected.
To understand nursing students' expectation from their mentors and assess mentors' performance, a scale of mentors' behavior was developed based on literature review and focus group in China.
The project's mandate was twofold: (1) to establish evidence of how mentoring affects quality of care, and (2) to demonstrate the process of scaling-up a mentoring program across the region.
Using a multiple baseline design across treatment teams, we assessed the degree of integration of these two treatment modalities using a 23-item rating scale, and then introduced mentoring successively across the three treatment teams.
A few of us in Europe, including myself, are working on raising funds and creating a better funding model with smart capital that incorporates risk taking and mentoring at scale.
