Community Mentors
Mentors are required for the Class of 2010. The Mentor should be a business person, educator (outside the student's own school), or other professional who has expertise in the field of the student's topic. Mentors must be at least 21 years old, not an immediate family member, and must register as a Level 4 WCPSS volunteer.
Mentor responsibilities are listed below:
- Act as community liaison between community and school
- Provide assistance as community resource
- Sign mentor agreement
- Assist student as needed with content, quality and project completion
- Log meeting times and contact attempts
- Complete a minimum of 15 contact hours with student
- Serve as presentation judge
Mentors are needed for AHS students. Click here for information on how to become a mentor.
Potential Resources From Which To Seek Mentors Within The Apex Community
The following list has been assembled to help students quickly locate potential mentors within the Apex community. Users will have to employ discretion and go through appropriate processes to contact, establish and work with any potential mentors per Wake County Public School System guidelines.
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Potential Resources From Which To Seek Mentors Across Wake County
The following list has been assembled by the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce to help students quickly locate potential mentors within Wake County. Users will have to employ discretion and go through appropriate processes to contact, establish and work with any potential mentors per Wake County Public School System guidelines.
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Potential Resources From Which To Seek Mentors Across North Carolina
The following list of public websites has been assembled to help teachers more quickly locate business, industry, local and statewide government agencies, associations and organizations in counties across the state who may be willing to provide or operate as mentors for the North Carolina Graduation Project. The NC Department of Public Instruction in no way assumes responsibility for the information located at each site nor have any of the groups or individuals listed agreed to be mentors. These sites are public access sites that we have merely located according to county or, in some cases they are statewide, to help facilitate finding mentors. Users will have to employ discretion and go through appropriate processes to contact, establish and work with any potential mentors. Because we do not control these sites, they are subject to change, however, most of these were found by doing a search for business, industry, chambers of commerce, associations, organizations, etc. You may wish to do similar online searches to locate other resources or to find resources that pertain to a specific job or career not represented here.
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FUTURES FOR KIDS
Futures for Kids (F4K) is a fun and easy way for your students to explore different careers and understand the relevance of school as a means to future success. Through F4K, students can match their interests to almost 500 different
careers and learn about the classes they need to take as well as the career outlook for North Carolina. Most important, students can connect with NC companies and get advice from 500+ F4K
Career Coaches, through monitored discussion
boards where they will connect with someone who can share first-hand what it takes to make it in that career.
The best part is, you can explore F4K with your students and have their 4-year graduation plans and career interests right at your computer! F4K is currently being delivered to 22 school systems across NC and working to expand statewide
in 2008-2009. For more information, contact F4K at info@f4k.org or see the Career Development Coordinator at your school.
Website in Support of the Graduation Project: A Model for Business and Industry
The North Carolina Office of Environmental Education, a state government office, has created a NC Graduation Project Support site to assist students and individuals in an environmental profession to connect in order to facilitate
the mentoring aspect of the Project. They have both a Students Seeking Mentors and a Mentors Seeking Students section. There is also a process to enable mentors to express an interest in mentoring and be added to the website.
This example of support for the Graduation Project in our public schools is definitely a beneficial and practical means to support the Project, and serves as a model that business and industry might follow. For additional
information, check out the site at http://www.eenorthcarolina.org/gradproject.html.