Senior Independent Project Mentors
Senior Independent Project (SIP) Mentors is matched with a Trinity-Pawling student who is interested in pursuing a passion or career similar to that of his mentor.
Mentors may provide advice and relay personal experience from their own career or vocation to help students hone their own unique set of leadership skills. For example, if a student is interested in filmmaking, he may be matched with an alumnus in the film industry who can offer feedback on a screenplay drafted by the student. A student who wishes to explore a passion for urban planning may be linked with a parent or alumnus in architecture or city planning who can help that student create his own plan to develop an urban area. Every student has the opportunity to develop his own set of questions related to his area of research to help drive the conversation and collaboration with his mentor.
The extent of involvement as a mentor is flexible; however, at a minimum, all students will send their mentors five questions via email, which the mentor will answer.
If the student has more questions, and the conversation becomes more substantial, we encourage the mentor and student to maintain a dialogue. This could take the form of phone or email exchanges, or in some instances may lead to an experience such as a face-to-face meeting or even an internship. If this is the case, mentors must let their staff contact know that they have completed their email exchange but wish to continue to mentor the student, so that the student’s parent is informed.
If you are a Trinity-Pawling alum interested in serving as a SIP Mentor to a current Trinity-Pawling student, please contact alumni@trinitypawling.org or call 845-855-4830.
