The Mentorship 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 scholar's career 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
Mentorship 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 Mentorship 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.