Motivations and Benefits for College Students Serving as Mentors in a High School Robotics Competition

Salzman, Noah

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“…The effects of the FIRST program, based on their perceptions, on developing its participants' interpersonal skills and choice of a STEM career were stronger among participants who chose to become mentors than our previous results on developing interpersonal skills and STEM career choice of non-mentor participants. These findings are in line with other studies on the interaction between mentors and their mentees (Dolenc et al, 2016;Eby, 1997;Salzman & Strobel, 2011).…”

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Interpersonal skills and STEM career choice of three types of FIRST mentors

Yoel

Dori

2023

J of Engineering Edu

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BackgroundFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) robotics is an international, extra‐curricular program that fosters young students' interpersonal skills and career choices in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). FIRST teams are guided by mentors, about half of whom are also mentees.PurposeTo describe and characterize FIRST mentors and their perceptions of their own interpersonal skills and STEM career choice and identify differences by mentor types and gender.MethodThe study participants included 261 FIRST mentors. A convergent mixed‐methods approach was used. Data was collected quantitatively via questionnaires and qualitatively via interviews. The analysis was guided by the social cognitive career theory (SCCT).ResultsFourteen categories were identified to describe and characterize the FIRST mentors. Nine were based on SCCT and five were new: influence of friends, interpersonal skill, personal contribution, challenges, and mentor‐as‐educator. Differences were found between three types of FIRST mentors: non‐FIRST mentors, graduate mentors, and mentee mentors. The correlations between factors and categories indicated that the mentors' perceptions were consistent with those of the mentees. The FIRST program impacted the STEM career choice of men more than women, and external motivation influenced women more than men.ConclusionsThe FIRST program contributes to developing its graduates' interpersonal skills and affects their STEM career choice. The study provides insights into mentors' influence on mentees' career choices, from which both genders benefit. Making FIRST available in schools as a widespread enrichment program is expected to foster students' STEM career choices, thereby contributing to the human resource reservoir of the high‐tech industry workforce.

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“…Mentoring can also benefit the mentors. For example, college students who mentored high school teams in the FIRST program developed their leadership ability, teamwork, communication skills, and technical knowledge (Salzman & Strobel, 2011).…”

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Interpersonal skills and STEM career choice of three types of FIRST mentors

Yoel

Dori

2023

J of Engineering Edu

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“…Besides, engineering students need to improve their communication which they will use during education and in their future work. According to Salzman and Strobel (2011) and the National Academy of Engineering (2004), engineering in the 21 st century requires more than just strong technical and analytical abilities, but they also need the ability to communicate work as a team.…”

Section: Internship Mentoring In Engineering Disciplinementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, universities have to develop a wide variety of programs to help students enhance communication and leadership skills and to solve problems working with people outside the engineering program (Salzman & Strobel, 2011). Similarly, it is mentioned that university education should consider the environment and the needs of the world of work (Marsono, et al 2017).…”

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Supporting Engineering Education through Internship Mentoring Program: Approaches, Perceptions and Challenges

Birhan¹,

Merso²

2021

JTET

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University-industry linkage is considered as a strategy to equip university students, with theoretical and practical knowledge. The purpose of this research was to investigate the approaches, perceptions, and challenges of internship mentoring in Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University. The participants were mentors, students, and a director. Thus, 60 mentors, 80 students, and one academic program director were selected through availability and purposive sampling techniques. The research was designed through a case study, embedded mixed research design approach. The data were collected through questionnaire and interview and analyzed through descriptive statistics (mean), the Kruskal-Wallis H test, and thematic analysis. The data revealed that both mentors and students perceived internship mentoring helped to improve engineering students’ academic achievements and their psychology. However, different responses were observed between mentors and students. Most students did not perceive the internship mentoring program helped them improve their communication skills and their future careers. The data also proved that majority of mentors used a cloning model than the nurturing and friendship models. Finally, the data indicated that lack of company supervisor’s interest to involve students in the actual work, inadequate support from administrators, and inadequate guidance for mentoring are the major challenges that affect the implementation of internship mentoring in Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University.

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Effects of pre-college engineering participation on first-year engineering outcomes

Salzman

Ohland

2015

2015 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)

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Motivations and Benefits for College Students Serving as Mentors in a High School Robotics Competition

Abstract: He has work experience as both an engineer and taught science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at the high school level.

Cited by 3 publications

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Interpersonal skills and STEM career choice of three types of FIRST mentors

Interpersonal skills and STEM career choice of three types of FIRST mentors

Supporting Engineering Education through Internship Mentoring Program: Approaches, Perceptions and Challenges

Effects of pre-college engineering participation on first-year engineering outcomes

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