Dear Prospective Mentor:

Thank you for your interest in the Boston Latin Science Fair Mentoring Program. This program begins with a mentor orientation session on either September 25^th or the 27^th, depending on which day of the week you choose to mentor. The program will run for ten weeks, during which time you will work with a high school student on formulating a small research project, implementing that project and analyzing the results. Mentors meet with students on either Tuesday or Thursday between 2:30-4. If you are a BBS gradate student interested in fulfilling your TA requirement in this program, you must mentor a student on Tuesday and Thursday. While some students are flexible enough to meet on other days of the week (Monday-Friday), students can generally only meet with mentors immediately after school at 2:30.

In the past mentors have spent from 1-6 hours per week working with their student, depending on the intensity of the project and the stage of the project (for example, you may have 2 weeks of experiments that require a greater time commitment, followed by several weeks of analysis where you only meet for one hour). We encourage mentors to take their students into their labs for the experimental portion of their project, but we do have lab space available at Boston Latin if that is not possible (but equipment is limited). Boston Latin is conveniently located adjacent to Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health and Merck and houses some of the best students Boston has to offer. Our students are highly motivated and past students have gone on to win awards at the highest levels of the science fair!

Thanks again for your consideration! Our program is not possible without the generous donation of time from our volunteers from the Longwood Medical area! If you are interested in applying to mentor in this program please email boston.latin.science.fair@gmail.com for an application.