Co-Mentoring with Program Professionals
Internship programs often involve people in addition to the project mentor. The Akamai Internship Program incorporates a co-mentoring relationship in which program professionals collaborate with project mentors to prepare and support interns.
Learn about the role of Akamai Program professionals and the resources that they have developed using the same themes that project mentors use to support both interns and project mentors.
Preparatory course
One week intensive that prepares interns for a successful internship experience
Supporting productive projects
Working with mentors to identify projects, match interns, and make midpoint adjustments
Coaching on communication
Coaching interns on what and how to share their project in a formal presentation
Akamai’s secret sauce
The many unique ingredients that make the program successful but may not be evident
Leaders and Funding
This website is based on the work for the Akamai Workforce Initiative led by the Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators at University of California, Santa Cruz.
Development of this website was funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the National Science Foundation (AST#1743117 & AST#2034962), and the Hawaii Community Foundation.
Address
Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators
Mailstop: UCO/Lick Obs ISEE
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Email: isee@ucsc.edu