Title : 
Mentoring high school students: Lessons learned
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper shares my personal experience mentoring 38 high school students who participated in the New Visions Engineering Program since the program was introduced in 2009. I also discuss observations on behaviors of the students I mentored and my own lessons learned. In addition, statistical data is presented to illustrate the program´s effectiveness and its trends. Concluding remarks further support benefits of such highly successful and inspirational programs that integrate science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) for our future engineers.
         
        
            Keywords : 
educational institutions; engineering education; statistical analysis; New Visions engineering program; STEM; high school student mentoring; personal experience mentoring; program effectiveness; science technology engineering and math; statistical data; Antennas; Conferences; Educational institutions; Employee welfare; Engineering profession; Helicopters; Shadow mapping; Engineering; Math; Mentoring; Science; Technology;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), 2013 IEEE
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Princeton, NJ
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-5622-0
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ISECon.2013.6525217