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Achievement-Based Objective:
Achievement-Based Objective:
Mentors will explore with mentees engineering fields of interest to their mentee.
Mentors and Mentees will look at how the skills promoted by the arts are important to successful careers in engineering fields.
Anchor:
Anchor:
Ask your mentee if they have taken engineering as part of any class curricula in school.
Are there other engineering areas they were exposed to at home, in hobbies, or in other activities that they found interesting?
Did they have an interesting project that required some engineering skills or practice?
What skills were used?
Did the mentee get excited or feel a passion about any of these engineering areas or skills?
Add:
Add:
With your mentee, follow the link to this article about the highest-paying college majors. This article was published in 2022 and the information was derived by cross-referencing pay databases and projected job growth from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nine of the top fifteen highest-paying college majors are engineering jobs! Take some time to discuss this with your mentee.
From the list below of skills promoted by the arts, or others the mentor or mentee would like to add, discuss which skills the mentee has some proficiency in and which they need to build. Each skill contains a link to a website that provides ideas on how to build these skills. If you have completed some of the other STEM lessons in this toolkit, choose different skills from the list below than you have worked on previously as all these skills are important in STEM careers.
Apply:
Apply:
Have the mentee choose 2 or 3 engineering careers that they are interested in learning more about. Explore these or similar engineering careers of interest at the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Next, choose 1 or 2 skills promoted by the arts that you discussed previously and think about how applying these skills to the engineering field of interest would enhance the mentee’s opportunities and work in their engineering careers of interest.
Away:
Away:
Using the arts promoted skills building websites provided, plan some future practice sessions to build or enhance the mentee’s skills and opportunities in engineering careers.
In future sessions, continue to explore engineering careers of interest to the mentees using the US Bureau of Labor Statistics website, or websites for job shadowing, internships, etc.
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