EMERGE

The EMERGE Mentoring program began in 2008.  The program has three main goals, which are to:

  1. Help students adopt a proactive stance on learning and begin to create their own plan for career and educational choices.
  2. Help students develop the socio-cognitive skills to bridge the transition to high school
  3. Provide a consistent, reliable source of encouragement and advice, including support for pursuing STEM academic subjects.

Since our beginning in 2008 the EMERGE program has reached over 80 female high school students.  The program partners the high schools mentees with a mentor from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.  The mentors are junior and senior women students.  The Rose-Hulman mentors are then given no more than six mentees to mentor for the entire school year.  Having small mentoring groups really helps mentees to develop a since of belonging and trust.  In return this generates a lot of discussion and growth for the mentors and mentees alike. The unique part of the EMERGE mentoring program is that 75% of all interactions take place online via the PRISM website through the Moodle Learning Management System.

PRISM

The EMERGE Program is a part of the PRISM program hosted out of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.  Which is a free web site linking Indiana Academic Standards for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to appropriate web sites and applications for grades 6-12. The site is hosted at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and is funded by a grant from the Lilly Endowment.

PRISM also freely offers the Moodle Learning Management System.  Which teachers can create an online classroom environment where they can store their course’s digital material for their students to access as well as administer assignemtns and quizzes.

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Rose-Hulman Rose-Hulman is located in Terre Haute, IN and is one of the nation’s top undergraduate engineering, science, and mathematics colleges. Originally founded in 1874 as Rose Polytechnic Institute was an all male institute. In 1995 the school became coeducational. The school’s athletic teams compete under the Division III athletic conference as well as the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference. There are many competitive and club sports offered for women and men.