{"id":6746,"date":"2020-11-19T09:15:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T16:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=6746"},"modified":"2020-11-19T09:15:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T16:15:48","slug":"mentorship-opportunity-ubc-lets-talk-science-science-fair-mentorship-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-6746","title":{"rendered":"Mentorship Opportunity &#8211; UBC Let&#8217;s Talk Science: Science Fair Mentorship Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Virtual Mentors Needed &#8211; UBC Let&#8217;s Talk Science: High School Science Fair Mentorship Program<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We at UBC Let&#8217;s Talk Science are currently recruiting mentors for our 2020-2021 science fair mentorship program in partnership with David Thompson Secondary School. This year mentorship will take place entirely online!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the mentorship program?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students at David Thompson Secondary School are in need of mentors to help guide them through their science fair projects. UBC Let&#8217;s Talk Science volunteer mentors are paired with high school students to help them design, run and analyze a scientific experiment for their online science fair.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Purpose:\u00a0<\/strong>To encourage and support science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning and discovery in high school students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time Commitment:\u00a0<\/strong>1-3 hours per week from December to March, virtual.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Interested in becoming a mentor?\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sign-up at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/zLVFfhwNxRZertc29\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/zLVFfhwNxRZertc29<\/a>\u00a0by December 2nd. We encourage mentors from all university education levels (undergraduate, graduate, post-doc, etc.) to join! Please feel free to share this opportunity with your friends and colleagues as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For questions or more information, please contact Tianna Sihota at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mentorship@ubclts.com\">mentorship@ubclts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Warm Regards,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tianna Sihota<\/strong><br \/>\nMentorship Coordinator<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s Talk Science<br \/>\nUniversity of British Columbia | Vancouver, BC<br \/>\nEmail:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mentorship@ubclts.com\">mentorship@ubclts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sent via <a href=\"https:\/\/gsuite.google.com\/marketplace\/app\/mail_merge_with_attachments\/223404411203\">Mail Merge for Gmail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Mentors Needed &#8211; UBC Let&#8217;s Talk Science: High School Science Fair Mentorship Program We at UBC Let&#8217;s Talk Science are currently recruiting mentors for our 2020-2021 science fair mentorship program in partnership with David Thompson Secondary School. This year mentorship will take place entirely online! What is the mentorship program? Students at David Thompson&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6747,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions\/6747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}