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Each year hundreds of members support our student community by participating in various reviewing and mentoring opportunities. Giving back time and feedback to our community empowers the future generation of STEM and helps uplift the SACNAS mission of fostering success for our members.
Here are just a few of the ways you can give back your time and energy to SACNAS:
For many students getting direct mentorship can make all the difference in validating and motivating them to persist in their STEM journey. By serving as a mentor judge, volunteers provide constructive feedback and motivation to student research presenters, including many first-time presenters and first-generation college students. In addition to giving back to student SACNISTAs, this is a great opportunity to get exposed to new research in your field, as well as networking and recruiting talented students.
Time commitment: Approximately 2 hours during the conference October 27 to 29, 2022 in Puerto Rico.
Eligibility:
IMPORTANT: Mentor judges are not eligible for discounted or waived conference registration
Requesting funding from your institution? Let them know you’ll be serving as a mentor!
Conversations with ScientistsConversations with Scientists is SACNAS's signature mentoring event that has been occurring for over 30 years. In this 90-minute program, undergraduate and graduate students can meet and speak with mentors in their own fields. Participants are divided up based on discipline, and then, by sub-discipline. Mentors answer specific questions, and also share their own educational and professional stories.
Time commitment: Approximately 90 minutes during the conference on Thursday, October 27, from 12:30-2 PM in Puerto Rico.
IMPORTANT: Conversation with Scientists mentors are not eligible for discounted or waived conference registration
Requesting funding from your institution? Let them know you’ll be serving as a mentor!
As a research presentation application reviewer you will receive:
Questions: Email presentations@sacnas.org
As a travel scholarship application reviewer you will receive::
Questions: Email travelscholarships@sacnas.org
Session reviewers are professionals with a bachelor’s degree or higher who volunteer to review session proposals submitted for the 2022 SACNAS National Diversity in STEM (NDiSTEM) Conference. They are a crucial part of the session selection process that ensures variety and quality in conference programming. Reviewers have two weeks to complete their assignments on their own time.
Note: This is a pre-conference opportunity from July 25th to August 12th (Summer Period). Volunteers are not eligible for discounted or waived conference registration. Undergraduate students, and persons affiliated with a session proposal are not eligible to participate as session reviewers.
As a session reviewer, you will receive:
Volunteer time:
Questions: Email sessions@sacnas.org
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