October 29:

• Orientation and Training (5:30 pm at UBC).

November 5:

• Orientation and Training (5:30 pm at UBC). Mentors should plan to attend one of the two training sessions or contact the mentorship coordinator personally.

November 6:

• Deadline for official program commitment. If you agree to be a mentor at this point and are later unable to continue (for any reason other than medical emergency), you will need to help find a replacement mentor.

Week of November 13: Digital Visit 1

• Receive your pod assignments.
• Make contact with and “meet” the high school students in your pod via email (or, optionally, Skype/Google Hangouts).
• Help students explore project topics.
• Support the students in developing a scientific question and hypotheses.

Week of November 20: Digital Visit 2

• Help students formulate scientific question and hypotheses.
• Help students design experimental set-ups to answer their scientific question.

Week of November 27: Digital Visit 3

• Support students developing materials and methods and gather materials for experiment.
• Help students begin experiments.

January 15: In-Person Visit 1(3:30-5:00 pm)

• Help students conduct experiments and begin data analysis.

January 22: In-Person Visit 2 (3:30-5:00 pm)

• Continue conducting experiments
• Continue data analysis.

January 29: In-Person Visit 3 (3:30-5:00 pm)

• Help students finish data analysis
• Help students to prepare their report and display.

February 5: In-Person Visit 4 (3:30-5:00 pm)

• Help students finish their display, give feedback on their practice presentation.

February 12: Science Fair (2:00-5:30 pm)

• Wish your high school students well!
• Find out which projects you will judge.
• Judge projects from some of the other high school students
• Note: If you're unable to attend from 2:00-3:30 pm, this does not count as an absence.

Late February: Focus Groups to assess program