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STEVE COX

Northern New Mexico College

Northern New Mexico STEM Mentor Collective

NSF Awards: 1649296

2017 (see original presentation & discussion)

Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Undergraduate

The Northern New Mexico STEM Mentor Collective addresses the problem of low STEM aspirations and expectations by empowering undergraduate STEM majors to serve as sustained STEM role models in the schools and libraries where they grew up. In this brief video we meet participating mentors, school students and teachers and view the program's impact through the eyes of both our college president and our congressional representative.

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Discussion from the 2017 STEM for All Video Showcase (8 posts)
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    Steve Cox

    Lead Presenter
    Assistant Professor
    May 15, 2017 | 09:00 a.m.

    Greetings STEM Outreach Advocates. I look forward to your observations, discussion and advice on STEM Mentoring programs for K12 students and STEM service learning programs for undergraduates.

    Yours, Steve Cox

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    Michael Stone

    Facilitator
    Director of Innovative Learning
    May 15, 2017 | 09:56 a.m.

    Obviously this is in the weeds and wouldn't make sense to include in the video, but can you provide us with an idea of how often the mentors work with the mentees? Also, I assume you are tracking the impact of the mentorships on the K-12 students, but do you also anticipate the program will positively impact the undergraduate mentors? 

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    Steve Cox

    Lead Presenter
    Assistant Professor
    May 15, 2017 | 07:27 p.m.

    Dear Michael,

    Thanks for you note. The mentors see their proteges weekly for one or two hours either in class or over lunch or after school. All of these meetings taking place at the middle or high school.

    Yes, following the research on service learning we are tracking the impact of serving as mentors on our undergraduate population.

    Yours, Steve

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    Janet Kolodner

    Facilitator
    Regents' Professor Emerita
    May 15, 2017 | 11:54 a.m.

    Hello Northern Mexico Team,

    This program seems to have so many nice elements -- college students who have struggled in their own lives as mentors, kids from the local community who may not be thinking about college, and a venue that is local so kids can easily get to it and a place of higher learning that is not beyond what they can imagine aspiring to. I have lots of questions. (1) I wonder, as Michael does, about some of the details -- how often the kids come, what the programming is, how often they attend, how often the mentors work with the mentees, whether the mentors have particular kids assigned to them, ... (2) I wonder what you are documenting and how you are keeping track of what can be learned from your experience so that you will be able to refine it over time and so that you will be able to write it up so others can duplicate it in their own places of residence. (3) I wonder what you have learned already about the ins and outs of making a program like this work.

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    Steve Cox

    Lead Presenter
    Assistant Professor
    May 15, 2017 | 07:38 p.m.

    Dear Janet,

    Thanks for your great questions. We support school teachers in math, biology, computing and robotics. By entering classrooms with one college professor and 3 to 4 college students we facilitate hands-on science. By visiting the same class every week we create bonds between mentors and the school kids. In this, our first year, we are establishing ties with school teachers and administrators and other youth development leaders in our community. We are also collecting a slew of data - largely centered around attitudes toward learning and serving and taking responsibility for ones learning. The key lesson learned so far is that it is far better to integrate our offerings into existing required school classes than to offer them on some volunteer basis.

    Yours, Steve

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    Selena Connealy

    May 15, 2017 | 12:28 p.m.

    NNMC--thanks for your important work that you do! I am especially interested in considering how colleges in rural areas can support STEM learning. It's amazing that you have a maker space in Dixon!

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    Chris Thorn

    Facilitator
    Director of Knowledge Mangement
    May 16, 2017 | 12:06 a.m.

    Steve - I like the answers to Janet's questions. The video tells a compelling story about the impact on school students and on the mentors. What's the impact been on the university faculty? You insight about working into existing courses seems like something that could inform a broad range of folks at the university. Do you think your project will have that notion stick with your university colleagues?

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    Janet Kolodner

    Facilitator
    Regents' Professor Emerita
    May 16, 2017 | 12:09 p.m.

    Excellent question!!!

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