MEET THE MENTORS

About Mentors

Each session, EPIC students partner with a faculty mentor who exists to help them navigate the challenges and celebrate the successes of their projects. Depending on student needs, mentors can be actively involved or intentionally in the background.  Possible contributions of EPIC mentors may include honing project design, identifying resources and community partners, securing desired materials, facilitating reflection, and providing opportunities for students to build and practice key skills. EPIC mentors ARE NOT disseminators of content knowledge.  In fact, it is the aim of EPIC mentors to make themselves progressively unnecessary as they transfer the power and perspective in education from the adults to the students.