E^3 Women's STEM Mentoring Program
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By 2018, 2.7 million new jobs will be available in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields. STEM fields are one of the fastest growing and highest paid fields though women, specifically minority women are continuously underrepresented.
Hi Everyone!
My name is Chia, and I am a member of the Leadership Team of the E^3 Mentoring Program. E^3: Empowering, Encouraging, Eliminating Barriers is a mentoring group for motivated, underprivileged, and/or disadvantaged female students in grades 9th-12th. We are a student run organization comprised of college mentors and high school mentees. We meet at least twice every month from January to May.
E^3 offers a mentor-mentee relationship to young women who have a zeal for STEM, but need exposure to opportunities within the field. Our mission is to build awareness about the lack of minority women in STEM fields, eliminate barriers of opportunities, foster learning and academic success, and cultivate leadership by bringing together the top leaders of today with the striving leaders of tomorrow.
E^3 has opened my eyes to the exciting benefits of pursuing my passion in science and has motivated me to take advantage of every opportunity, whether it be a lab position or a climate change fellowship. I was first involved with the program as a mentee and I have seen the Leadership Team's commitment to my own empowerment and the elevation of other former mentees.
Mentors of E^3 are students at colleges like MIT, Northeastern, Wellesley, Boston University, the University of Massachusetts: Boston, and Tufts. Our mentees graduate from high school and attend some of these schools, along with others. Even better, after completing E^3, our mentees are more driven than ever. They have completed internships and jobs at Mass General Hospital and Tufts Medical Center. They have participated in highly selective programs such as the Dana Farber CURE Program, and the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program. Mentees have even been nominated as Junior delegates/members of the National Society of Black Engineers. E^3 surely leaves a lasting impact on the young women who take part in it.
Created by Jwahir Sundai, a high school senior at the time, E^3 is now run by a board of high school and college students. E^3's creation story and its continuity shows how driven and passionate the members of this program are. Everything that we do arises from student initiative. This is exactly why we need funding. For the past four years, E^3 has been able to continue because of out of pocket funding from the Leadership Team. This is a strain on many Leadership Team members because we are high school and college students who are low on funds. Because of our resilience and dedication to this program and its success, we allocate funds (that should go to tasks like buying books) to the E^3 Mentoring Program.
We ask that you help support the E^3 Mentoring Program so that we can continue to offer our mentors and mentees fun activities, like wet labs, that will encourage experiential learning in science. Your kind donation will assist us in accomplishing simple tasks like buying printer paper and food for our mentors and mentees, and more complex tasks like securing meeting spaces amid rising costs in Boston.
Any donation to our program would be appreciated, as it would lessen the monetary burden of the program on the Leadership Team, and it would be an affirmation of a common commitment to the advancement of women in STEM.
Thank you for your generosity,
Chia
Here is a video from two years ago:
Hi Everyone!
My name is Chia, and I am a member of the Leadership Team of the E^3 Mentoring Program. E^3: Empowering, Encouraging, Eliminating Barriers is a mentoring group for motivated, underprivileged, and/or disadvantaged female students in grades 9th-12th. We are a student run organization comprised of college mentors and high school mentees. We meet at least twice every month from January to May.
E^3 offers a mentor-mentee relationship to young women who have a zeal for STEM, but need exposure to opportunities within the field. Our mission is to build awareness about the lack of minority women in STEM fields, eliminate barriers of opportunities, foster learning and academic success, and cultivate leadership by bringing together the top leaders of today with the striving leaders of tomorrow.
E^3 has opened my eyes to the exciting benefits of pursuing my passion in science and has motivated me to take advantage of every opportunity, whether it be a lab position or a climate change fellowship. I was first involved with the program as a mentee and I have seen the Leadership Team's commitment to my own empowerment and the elevation of other former mentees.
Mentors of E^3 are students at colleges like MIT, Northeastern, Wellesley, Boston University, the University of Massachusetts: Boston, and Tufts. Our mentees graduate from high school and attend some of these schools, along with others. Even better, after completing E^3, our mentees are more driven than ever. They have completed internships and jobs at Mass General Hospital and Tufts Medical Center. They have participated in highly selective programs such as the Dana Farber CURE Program, and the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program. Mentees have even been nominated as Junior delegates/members of the National Society of Black Engineers. E^3 surely leaves a lasting impact on the young women who take part in it.
Created by Jwahir Sundai, a high school senior at the time, E^3 is now run by a board of high school and college students. E^3's creation story and its continuity shows how driven and passionate the members of this program are. Everything that we do arises from student initiative. This is exactly why we need funding. For the past four years, E^3 has been able to continue because of out of pocket funding from the Leadership Team. This is a strain on many Leadership Team members because we are high school and college students who are low on funds. Because of our resilience and dedication to this program and its success, we allocate funds (that should go to tasks like buying books) to the E^3 Mentoring Program.
We ask that you help support the E^3 Mentoring Program so that we can continue to offer our mentors and mentees fun activities, like wet labs, that will encourage experiential learning in science. Your kind donation will assist us in accomplishing simple tasks like buying printer paper and food for our mentors and mentees, and more complex tasks like securing meeting spaces amid rising costs in Boston.
Any donation to our program would be appreciated, as it would lessen the monetary burden of the program on the Leadership Team, and it would be an affirmation of a common commitment to the advancement of women in STEM.
Thank you for your generosity,
Chia
Here is a video from two years ago:
Organizer
Chiamaka Obilo
Organizer
Cambridge, MA
