The Collegiate Mentorship Program

Academic Research

The Academic Research pathway is for students who want to work with an elite university faculty member (mentor) to investigate, analyze, and produce meaningful research in the form of a written academic report.

There are three Academic Research tracks:

Publication Track
Competition Track
Deeper Learning Track

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Hands-on Project

The Hands-on Project pathway is different from Academic Research because the emphasis is on building, creating, designing, experimenting, or doing rather than primarily producing scholarly research. In this pathway, the student works with their mentor to take an idea and turn it into a tangible project or product. Most commonly, students within the hands-on pathway build electronic devices, motor vehicles, aircraft or innovative materials. Our students have earned many patents for innovative designs crafted during their mentorships. Our students who possess a passion for computer science, data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning often build apps, websites, games or software which addresses an important community need or market demand.

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Independent Research Project

This framework fits students who are at a high level in their primary subject and are looking to transform their advanced knowledge into tangible achievement. Students in this framework collaborate with their professor on a new research paper of the student’s choice. We support and encourage students who produce papers of adequate quality to submit these for publication to youth science or humanities journals.

Deeper Learning

The most basic of our mentorship frameworks, Deeper Learning is an opportunity for students who have a passion but have yet to have any meaningful way to pursue it. Students in this framework learn about a particular field through their one-on-one sessions with their professor and over the course of two months, the student will have built the knowledge necessary in their primary subject to apply their knowledge to future endeavors. This framework often fits students with highly distinctive academic interests such as analyzing the mid-19th century war film genre or learning to use advanced statistical modeling programs.

Xavier Wu

Residence: Shanghai
School: Shanghai International School
Intended major: Electrical & Mechanical Engineering
Age during program: Grade 11

Xavier is very passionate about electrical and mechanical engineering. He has a lot of ideas, however there was a need for him to focus on the main relevant factors contributing to his design paper.

Through the program, he took part in the International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference 2019 competition with his final research paper, and has received a positive evaluation and letter of recommendation from the professor.

His university acceptance includes UChicago Full Merit Scholarship, Caltech, UC Davis Regents Scholarship USD30K, UC Irvine Directors Scholarship USD20K, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego USD5K.

Paul Tan

Residence: Portland, Oregon
School: Oregon Episcopal School
Intended major: Business
Age during program: Grade 11

Paul is extremely bright, focused and engaged. He has an enthusiasm for mastering concepts and methods of statistical analysis.

Through the program, he has published his final research paper on JOURNYS publication, received a positive evaluation and letter of recommendation from the professor.

His university acceptance includes Santa Clara University, Penn State University.

Dhevan Kalra

Residence: Hyderabad, India
School: Osmania University
Intended major: Biomedical Engineering
Age during program: final year undergraduate student

Dhevan possesses the enthusiasm to learn, as well as outstanding motivation and excellent self-reliance and independence. He participates in several extracurricular activities which includes the roles of Vice-Chair, Co-Director and Event Organizer. Prior to this mentorship program, he has published a research paper “Blind Mate: A Friend to The Blind” on “IEEE -Xplore Digital Library”.

Through the program, he wrote a stellar final research paper that is to be published in Springer's Inventive Material Science and Applications.

His university acceptance includes JHU, Brown and Cornell