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Create a proposal for the SAA including survey results and primary research conducted. Present that there is a demand for a peer mentoring program at Georgia Tech and how we would inculcate our program with the SAA and also how this would benefit the Georgia Tech Strategic Plan.
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Create a committe within the SAA that would oversee marketing of the program, selection of mentors, engaging freshaman and creating pairs. Also would serve as a go to group for the SAA to ask about progress of the program and if the program is on track to acheive the long term goal of a self-sustaining program.
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WIth the help of the SAA Peer Mentoring Program Committee, we would market our organization throughout the campus, via social media, emails, and tabling. We would also present our club at the annual College of Business club blitz.
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After advertising our program, creating an application for students to become mentors and also conducting interviews to select the best mentors for the incoming freshman class.
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Create a program that trains mentors to be effective in getting freshman the academic advice they need as well as encouraging them to participate in other activities. Notify mentors that they are not a replacement to professionals like advisors or counselors but rather a confidant that a younger student can look up to.
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Send out a questionnaire to the incoming freshman class asking them about their interests, their high school academic history, and other basic information to pair them with a mentor.
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Create a system that matches the mentors and mentees in the most effective manner.
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Have our first class of mentors and mentees. Our program does not set requirements on the number of times the pair meets, but rather is on a basis of friendship and peer help.
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It is important to see where our program stands in its effectiveness of being resourceful as a goal in the Georgia Tech Strategic Plan. In the research conducted there are many test that can be used to test how effective our program is and we will conduct these tests to measure our program's effectiveness.
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In the future we hope that more students participate in the program and that students that were mentees apply to be mentors and expand the SAA network.
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Our main long term goal is that by creating this program we want to see that mentees become mentors and that mentors become alumni mentors which in turn expand the Georgia Tech network. This can help enrich our students to be better prepared and thus then make a long-lasting global impact.
