Students Describe Mentoring Experience in Videos That Also Help Tell CISTAR’s Story
Videos continue to help spread word of the success of research mentoring programs conducted, in partnership with a national Black engineer society, at the Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources (CISTAR), an NSF-funded Engineering Research Center (ERC) based at Purdue University.
These videos will help with sustainability goals, promoting the CISTAR program to different audiences, including donors, deans, foundations, future students interested in mentoring, and others. Produced with varying lengths and topics, the videos can reach the different audiences and encourage their involvement and/or monetary support.
The new videos build on the success of CISTAR’s first video about its Research Experience and Mentoring (REM) video, from 2019, that showed participants describing their in-person summer participation. The new videos show how positively the 14 REM participants felt about the 2021 virtual program, developed in partnership with the National Society of Black Engineers.The new videos build on the success of CISTAR’s first video about its Research Experience and Mentoring (REM) program, from 2019, which showed participants describing their in-person summer participation. These videos show how positively the 14 REM participants felt about the 2021 virtual program, developed in partnership with the National Society of Black Engineers. (For more information about the REM virtual programs, see https://erc-assoc.org/content/reaching-and-inspiring-minority-students-participate-cistar-research-and-mentoring.)
To make it easy to follow-along with the different topics covered, the Center makes available “video segment guides” that describe the theme and summarize specific comments.
