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To ensure top quality student work at the Showcase, all students must have a faculty member who mentors them and reviews their work. If you are working with a student* who has an outstanding project, presentation, or artwork, we encourage you to approach the student and offer to mentor them at this year’s Showcase.
Your job as a mentor is to guide the student through the process of registering for the Showcase, writing and revising their abstract, and preparing their presentation. Expect your student to need help writing and polishing their abstract and title. We encourage you to use this opportunity to help them learn more about your discipline and its expectations. Students may need help tracking deadlines. Students will also benefit from your advice and guidance as they polish their presentations.
All editing and revision of student abstracts takes place between the student and mentor—the Showcase Committee is not involved in this process. Students are able to resubmit abstracts multiple times if necessary.
When a student registers for the Showcase, they will enter their mentor’s name and email address. As their mentor, you will receive an email with their information, title, and presentation type. Please review the email to make sure they have entered what you have both agreed upon.
Since every discipline has different guidelines about research on human subjects, the Showcase Committee is asking faculty mentors to determine if their student’s work requires approval for your student’s research to be presented publicly. If you are not sure, please contact the Showcase Committee at showcase@nwc.edu.
* In addition to mentoring individual students, you can also mentor small groups of students as a panel, a performance or a group showing posters together. You can also request a sponsored session where you curate and individually invite the participants.