Special Feature: Pre-mentoring help. Mentor Up is offering for the second time Pre-Mentor Up. Each accepted college can receive up to ten hours of mentoring help from an experienced mentor to brainstorm possible proposal ideas and develop them into a one-page proposal that can be submitted for the full Mentor Up program.
Pre-mentoring will take
place from January 1, 2025-March 14, 2025 and two faculty will be eligible to
receive $250 stipends upon submittal of their application to the full Mentor Up
program. Pre-Mentor Up participants can apply to Mentor Up in March one month ahead
of the regular April application deadline. Apply at atementorup.org.
Mentor Up Full Mentoring
Program Focus: This mentoring program
includes a three-day workshop for participants to learn about the NSF Advanced Technological
Education (ATE) program and how to most effectively apply for grant funding.
Faculty must propose a specific project to improve an ATE-eligible technical
program in a one-page proposal. One-page proposals will be reviewed until April
1 and proposals will be either accepted or sent back for corrections and
the website will remain open until the workshop and a waiting list are full.
Workshop activities will include presentations; planning and writing sessions
with mentors who have had extensive experience with ATE and NSF; and networking
with colleagues from similar institutions around the country. Two faculty from
each college will receive stipend support.
When: June
4-6, 2025 virtual workshop plus individual mentoring by an experienced mentor
and summer webinar series.
Location: Virtual
Eligibility: The
team should be led by a full-time STEM discipline faculty involved in
technician education programs from a two-year college. Two faculty per college
are eligible for stipends and colleges may also include a grant writer and
other team members for the workshop and webinar series. Teams of two or more
are strongly encouraged.
Stipends and Support: Each
participant will be eligible for a $500 stipend upon the completion of the
workshop. An additional stipend of $250 to each of two faculty will be
available upon submission of an ATE proposal in the October 2025 competition.
Ongoing Support: The
mentor assigned to each college team will continue throughout the summer to
support each college’s efforts to write a complete proposal. This will include
creating pre- and post-workshop milestones, webinars, suggesting resources, and
providing feedback both for proposal writing and in the award process.
To register for the workshop, visit the Mentor Up website at: www.atementorup.org or if you have
any questions about activities, please contact Dr. Kathleen Alfano at kalfano37@gmail.com
(co-PI of CREATE and Mentor Up).
NSF ATE
Grant # 2032835
