Please describe the best part of working on this project with your mentor.
I can't really say anything as I didn't get much information that related to my topic.
Receiving feedback on many of our tasks.
The best part of working with our mentor was getting great feedback and suggestions that helped us fix our project.
The best part of working on this project with our mentor was receiving all of the feedback and ideas that he shared with us.
The best part working with our mentor was having her give us ideas when we were stuck in a certain part of our project.
We enjoyed the help she gave us (like giving us links) and the support she gave our project.
The amount of reliable resources provided to us to cut down the time needed to look up.
He sent us some websites and ideas that helped us succeed in the end.
Being able to interact with someone
The best part of working with our mentor was receiving all the different suggestions and ideas.
The best part was building the prototype.
Best part was receiving valuable feedback from a professional that we could use in our presentation.
The best part of working with our mentor was getting background research.
The best part was having someone there to support me, and my mentor Sangita was always there for me even with the minor delays.
He gave us a lot of information and helped us along the way.
Our mentor gave us great feedback. His answers to our questions sparked more interest in our project and gave us new ideas.
The best part about working on this project with our mentor was getting help when it was needed from a professional, they really did a good job on giving us feedback right away to help us.
I'm glad that we were able to work with a professional when doing this project.
Our telementor gave us so many branches to sprout from, opening new windows on our project for us. This was our favorite part.
Having an outside opinion.
The best part of working on this project with our mentor is that she gave us very good idea and helped us come to a better conclusion than we had ever excepted ourselves. She gave us so much support from start to finish.
The best part of working with a mentor was getting feedback on our work.
It was nice to have an adult that we didn't personally know help us with our project.
Please share any other academic areas where you'd like to receive help from a mentor.
Only science.
I cannot think of any. Sorry.
We would love to receive help from a mentor in many other adcademic areas because they would probably help us excel In many areas.
My group would like to receive help in academic areas such as math and engineering. These areas would really help us on creating our project.
We thought our mentor did everything perfectly and helped us when we needed it.
We would like a mentor that specialists in heats and ways to get things hotter without any problems.
None of us would like anymore help from our mentor.
Probably on how to make a science presentation as goosld as it could be.
Science
Language Arts so we can have help with papers.
None
None.
Other School Projects
Social studies. That is a major buzzkill for me because I dislike History.
math
A mentor to help with Language Arts would be nice.
We would have liked to receive help more academic information from different areas from our mentors about how the technology we wanted to work with worked and how it was all put together.
We don't really think we will need help from our mentor in any other class/subject.
If they're more engaged, it'd be fine.
Math, History
We would be happy to have support from a mentor in any subject. Our mentor had similar interests to us so it was easy to work and connect with her.
We would like help in writing because it would help to have someone look over and revise our work.
I'd like to receive help from a mentor in computer science.
What advice would you give your mentor as he or she works with a new student?
Make sure you know who you are sending messages to. We got messages that related to Ayden's project, not ours.
Just keep doing what you are doing.
We don't have any advice except for be patient with responses because it's hard to remember to email your mentor.
Some advice we would give our mentor is if the kids don't email you every week then they should email the students.
We suggest a few more links because we got stuck at times but our mentor really did help us find our info.
When you send a file, please send one that would be possible for others to view. (An email was not able to be viewed do to being given a local link for the mentor's computer and not a file that could be accessed otherwise).
Just send a little more messages and keep up the good work.
From our experience, we would say respond to the student frequently.
Some advice we would give is keep asking questions and giving suggestions, that helped us improve our second prototype.
Give websites for research and ideas for prototypes.
Maybe give more links to the students and more info... be more active and specific.
Be more of a helping hand and more engaged in what the student is doing.
I would say, maybe respond a little bit more often.
send more messages.
Email your next student more often.
The advice i would give our mentor would be to just be a bit more specific when replying to us and helping us out.
We both thought she did a great job. She kept up with sending messages and giving feedback.
Be more engaged and give advice, not just websites. Work with them.
None
Our mentor did great things for us, so we have no suggestions for her.
We would say that website links are always good to have and you can never send too many.
I would tell them to respond more and do more research on the topic if they don't know about it.
How comfortable were you communicating with your mentor about your project?
0 - Uncomfortable
0 -
7 -
9 -
7 - Very Comfortable
I have a better understanding of the importance of doing well in math.
No - 11
Yes - 12
I have a better understanding of the importance of doing well in science.
No - 3
Yes - 20
I have a better understanding of the importance of doing well in reading and writing.
No - 13
Yes - 10
My writing skills have improved.
No - 14
Yes - 9
My teamwork skills have improved.
No - 3
Yes - 20
I'm taking more responsibility for my own academic success.
No - 4
Yes - 19
I plan to further my education beyond high school (trade school, community college, university).
No - 3
Yes - 20
What was your overall experience using the Mentored Pathways Web site?
0 - Difficult
0 -
7 -
11 -
5 - Easy
Please rate your overall experience in the program.
0 - Negative
1 -
7 -
9 -
6 - Very Positive
Would you be interested in receiving mentoring support from professionals in the future?
4 - No
19 - Yes
Please describe why or why not.
Yes, mentors are a reliable source.
The mentors are very helpful in many ways.
Yes because they are very helpful!
Helps you on your project.
We didn't really need a mentor through our project. Next time we should be given an option to have a mentor.
We know that at times we might be stuck and with a mentor, we can figure it out with a little help. Plus, it's never bad to know a bit more.
We get feedback from pros.
I would do it again because I think I would get a better mentor who who help me and my part Isaac a little more.
They helped us collect information we could not find.
It is very helpful in developing further in research and projects.
Because our mentor didn't give us the best advice ever.
I didn't feel they helped me a whole lot.
Yes because they are very helpful
It would be a great way to get feedback, and suggestions.
It is always good to have a professional help with big projects.
Our mentor was a great help.
They helped us explore different things we wouldn't have researched before, it also helped very much to not give up when we had the help and support.
I don't really think I need any help with future classes. If a big project came up, then I might want to have a mentor.
Cause it makes life easier.
It's hard to communicate.
It was a great experience and it really boosted our knowledge towards the science subject.
We would like to have someone to communicate with on our work who doesn't have any bias.
It is nice to have a professional to communicate to during a project that we don't know much about and want to know more about.
Was this the first time you've been part of a formal mentoring program?
14 - No
9 - Yes
Please describe the most difficult parts of working on this project with your mentor.
Bad communication
Just remembering that I have someone I can go to, to ask for help.
The most difficult part of working with the mentor was trying to find a way to put out prototype and ideas into words.
Remembering to email.
The hardest part was trying to find things to ask our mentor things.
The most difficult parts would be if our mentor didn't understand what we were saying or if we got confused on their words.
Time managment.
Sometimes he disk't respond in a long time so it was kinda hard.
The most difficult part was not seeing that our mentor responded to our message.
Some of the most difficult parts were finding the right materials and making our prototypes work.
Our mentor didn't help
They didn't know the topic very well and took awhile for responses.
Remembering to check for messages
The most difficult part would be having that delay in time.
He didn't respond to some of our messages so we had to figure it out on our own.
It was sometimes difficult to communicate what we were thinking over email.
The most difficult part was getting on and describing what we had trouble with and hoping what she told us back would help.
It wasn't hard to work with our mentor.
Prototyping was the most difficult.
None
There were no difficult parts of this experience.
The most difficult part of working with a mentor was remembering to email twice a week.
The most difficult part was when our mentor didn't email us back. It was also frustrating that our mentor didn't really know a lot about our topic, but he tried his hardest to help us.
Did we miss something? If so, please share any additional comments you might have about your experience in the program.
No
Nope.
You did not miss anything.
no
No you didn't miss anything
Maybe you can ask a question if that mentors profession helped us out (in our case a chemist) and our answer for this was yes.
No
Nope.
Overall, this program is really cool and helpful
NO
None
nope.
Nope :)
It was awesome
no.
no
No you didn't miss anything.
No
No.
No
No, you did not miss anything.
The questionaire covered everything.
The survey was good.
