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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background:white;color:black">Are you a graduate student, postdoc or professor looking for meaningful STEM outreach? Are you interested in honing
your</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background:white;color:rgb(7,7,6)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background:white;color:black">mentoring skills?
Are you excited about communicating science and engineering strategies and ways of thinking to the next generation of students? If yes, we need you! </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;color:black">Join our 2023-2024 high school mentoring program, Students Taking Advantage of Research, </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mcb.arizona.edu/outreach/star-lab" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;color:blue">STAR Lab</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(66,66,66)"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;color:black">STAR Lab matches Arizona high school students, 16 years or older, with mentors to support student driven research and meets the UArizona
Youth Safety criteria for working with minors. As a STAR Lab mentor, you will support your mentee as they develop and execute a research project that will be presented at the local science and engineering fair. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;color:black">As a mentor, you provide the scientific leadership and expertise, and the STAR Lab Program provides scaffolded support for students
of all levels to learn and practice science communication skills (s<span style="background:white">ee attached).</span> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;color:black">STAR Lab 2023-2024 will run from
<b>September 19, 2023, to March 15, 2024</b>, and will include a short mentor training prior to the start of the program. </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background:white;color:rgb(34,34,34)">If
you have questions, please contact </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;color:black">me today! I am happy to schedule a time to talk about the program with you.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(66,66,66)"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background:white;color:rgb(34,34,34)">If you would like to volunteer, please</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://forms.gle/LNzwFeMsCrjtTYbJ8" title="https://forms.gle/LNzwFeMsCrjtTYbJ8" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background:white;color:blue"> register
here.</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background:white;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> Note that you will be asked to share two potential projects or areas of study
on this registration form. You are not committed to these ideas, but the description of potential research is helpful in matching mentors and mentees.
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<a href="https://forms.gle/LNzwFeMsCrjtTYbJ8" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;color:blue">2023-2024 </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;text-decoration:none;color:blue">STAR</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;color:blue"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;text-decoration:none;color:blue">Lab</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;color:blue"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Mentoring</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;color:blue">:</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Thank you for volunteering for the 2023-2024 <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">STAR</span> <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Lab</span> <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">mentoring</span> program.
We could not do this without dedicated mentors such as you! The <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">STAR</span> <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Lab</span> program will
begin the week of September 18, 2023 with program orientation and the announcement of mentor and student matches. The program will end the week of the SARSEF Science and Engineering Fair, in early March 2024. As a <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">STAR</span> <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Lab</span> Mentor,
you will be providing a life changing opportunity for a young Arizona scientist or engineer. Please fill out this short questionnaire and provide us with information about the nature of the research opportunities you can offer a high school student. Thank
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