The Scholar and Mentor Portal offers an environment where Astronaut Scholars and Mentors share and build community through forums and private messaging. This portal is a virtual home for our scholar community and all Astronaut Scholars and Mentors are invited to make this portal a place to make meaningful relationships that center around this elite community.
The structure of the Mentor Program is based on the sharing of knowledge and wisdom in order to promote successful researchers, professionals and world changers. While the initial impact of the Astronaut Scholarship is a monetary award, the ongoing benefits continue well into the scholars careers and beyond as contacts are made, professional pathways followed and milestones are reached, and successes achieved. This relationship should be life-changing for both mentor and mentee alike and will perpetuate continual successes as the scholars/mentees pay forward/give back and transition to become mentors themselves.
For New Astronaut Scholars
The Scholar and Mentor Portal and the Mentor Program assists with career planning by providing job-specific information and potential career paths, building career networking skills, and assisting with job placement after graduation.
For Lifelong Astronaut Scholars
The Scholar and Mentor Portal and the Mentor Program provides an opportunity to give back and volunteer time, while developing important leadership skills.
For Mentors
The Scholar and Mentor Portal and the Mentor Program provides an opportunity to create a meaningful relationship with Astronaut scholars, the best and the brightest, in their respective fields of study. It is also an opportunity to make a meaningful impact, as your mentoring an Astronaut Scholar will not only help shape their future; but quite possibly, the trajectory of an industry, the discovery of a new resource, the pursuit of a new invention, or the discovery of a new material that drives the next innovation that changes society.