Mentoring pre-college students in Syracuse, New York
According to U.S. Census data, Syracuse, New York has one of the highest rates of child poverty in the nation. Historically underrepresented communities are disproportionately affected, and education is a critical tool to help them break the cycle of poverty and thrive.
In this project, engineering communication students from Cornell provide career-specific mentorship to underrepresented pre-college students in Syracuse. Through a combination of online mentoring and in-person workshops, the Cornell students aim to motivate the pre-college students to pursue STEM careers and provide them with the academic support to do so. Concurrently, the project offers engineering students the opportunity to engage with younger students from diverse racial and cultural backgrounds.
Through structured assessment methods, the project team examines whether, and/or to what extent, both engineering and pre-college students can enhance their critical engineering agency, develop cultural communication competence, and foster cultural humility.
Mentoring pre-college students in Syracuse, New York
According to U.S. Census data, Syracuse, New York has one of the highest rates of child poverty in the nation. Historically underrepresented communities are disproportionately affected, and education is a critical tool to help them break the cycle of poverty and thrive.
In this project, engineering communication students from Cornell provide career-specific mentorship to underrepresented pre-college students in Syracuse. Through a combination of online mentoring and in-person workshops, the Cornell students aim to motivate the pre-college students to pursue STEM careers and provide them with the academic support to do so. Concurrently, the project offers engineering students the opportunity to engage with younger students from diverse racial and cultural backgrounds.
Through structured assessment methods, the project team examines whether, and/or to what extent, both engineering and pre-college students can enhance their critical engineering agency, develop cultural communication competence, and foster cultural humility.
- Hua Wang, Engineering Communications Program, College of Engineering
- Jamila Walida Simon, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research
- Community partner: Syracuse Police Department
Funding to increase and sustain undergraduate involvement in community-engaged research