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The Science Fair Mentorship Program brings local students and industry professionals together with Sudbury teachers to produce meaningful science and engineering research and projects.

The EXTREME Virtual Reality Science fair project is a great opportunity to reintroduce students to topics in Science and Engineering through the use of cutting edge technology. Students will have the opportunity to use MIRARCO’s 3D laboratory to present and explore their research topics and models in an interactive learning environment.

One of the greatest benefits the students receive through this project is the ability to work hands on with an academic or industry mentor. They help the students understand that the problems they are attempting to solve have real life implications, and that learning extends beyond a textbook.

Your position as a mentor is a great opportunity to aid and influence students as they learn not just about their topic, but the basics of researching, and helping them understand how the world around them works. Mentors are needed in a wide variety of areas from sciences and urban planning, to video game design and everywhere in between.

As a mentor we expect that there is weekly communication of at least an email back and forth. Every second week we would like to have a face to face meeting or a phone call between mentor and student that can help them focus their research progress, while attempting to solve any potential questions that may have come up.

Your guidance and help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time and consideration,


David Kurt

EXTREME VR Science Fair

Asst. Project Coordinator




Duties

A Mentor is a resource who will guide or help the student achieve the project's goal by sharing knowledge and information from the mentor's field of expertise.

The Mentor may be at a distance or in the same regional area as the student. Thementor will spend some of his / her time answering questions, sharing useful information or giving insights on the student's research progress.

When the Mentor spends time with the student, it gives the student the opportunity to obtain experience in the mentor's field of expertise. This also provides the opportunity for the mentor to learn about the student and in return, the mentor may establish a partnership with the student where a coop placement with the mentor could take place.

The mentor has the opportunity to participate in the student's events, and may be included on an all expenses paid trip to conferences in Toronto and other areas in Canada.


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