Strategies from the Akamai Internship Program community of mentors

Akamai Mentoring Tools
More About Us

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

more

Strategy

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

Design Philosophy

We believe that, much like curriculum, internship project experiences can be intentionally designed to be effective. This underlying philosophy guides all our work.

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 Sense of 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.