Strategies from the Akamai Internship Program community of mentors

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Recipient of a PAESMEM award, the highest U.S. award for STEM mentoring

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Who we are

We are the leaders of Akamai – a mentoring program that has advanced hundreds of Hawaii college students into STEM careers.

Since 2003 we have collaborated with the astronomy industry in Hawaii to develop a local STEM workforce by mentoring local college students. Akamai’s success landed a national mentoring award: 88% of alumni stay in STEM, including those from underrepresented groups. This website shares what our community has learned about mentoring college students.

Proven Success

The Numbers Don’t Lie

Some 50 percent of American college students who major in a STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — field drop out, and the persistence rates for women and people of color are lower than those of their white male classmates, reported researchers at a Cornell conference March 25-26.

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Akamai Alumni Still in STEM

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National Average

Strategy

We believe that a successful internship can be designed using a three part strategy.

Productive project

We begin with a goal of developing projects that will be valuable for interns and mentors that we call “productive projects”

Themes

We orient our process around four themes that are based on research related to student persistence in STEM: Ownership & Agency, STEM Practices, Recognition, and Belonging.

Phases

We organize our design work around distinct chronological phases of a mentored internship project. These phases provide the backbone to which we apply our themes, tools, and strategies.

Design Philosphy

Mentor design and development tools

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Themes

We orient our process around four themes that are based on research related to student persistence in STEM
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  • STEM practices
  • Ownership and agency
  • Recognition
  • Sense of belonging

Phases

Akamai’s mentoring strategy is best understood by following the phases of an interns project

To design the project phases Akamai uses tools, strategies, and considerations that the Akamai community
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A Mentor’s Experience

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