Become a SCENE Mentor

The SCience and ENgineering Experience (SCENE) program is looking for ASU faculty who would like to participate as mentors for the 2021-2022 school year!

About the Program
The SCENE program can give you and your group an opportunity to provide a unique research experience to top-performing high school students. SCENE provides high school students with the opportunity to work in state-of-the art labs, answer their own original research questions, and compete in the Arizona Science & Engineering Fair in the spring. SCENE involvement can provide an excellent means of satisfying the challenging outreach requirement for NSF and NIH grants.

Time Commitment
Students are expected to work approximately 10 hours per week, with the work schedule being set by the faculty, their research team, and the student. The SCENE program begins in the fall semester and ends in the spring semester after the state fair.

Student Training  
The SCENE program hosts a meeting that teaches the high school students how to navigate in a university research laboratory and how to give engaging scientific presentations. The program also coordinates with EH&S to schedule the safety classes needed to work in the ASU laboratories.  

Minors on Campus Policy

Mentors must adhere to ASU’s Minors on Campus policy, which requires:  

1. Fingerprint check (paid by SCENE)
2. Completion of the Minors on Campus training through ASU Career Edge 

More Information  

Connect with us by email or visit us on the web for more information or if you have any questions. We are confident you will find this opportunity rewarding!

Become a SCENE Mentor  

If you are interested in participating as a SCENE mentor, please fill out this form by August 20th. If you are a returning professor, please use the same form.   

Sincerely,
The SCENE Team 

Professors Nathan Newman and Frank Wilczek

Nate Newman, Nathan.Newman@asu.edu

Professor, Emeritus, Lamonte H. Lawrence Professor in Solid State Science 2009-2021, Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, IEEE, American Physical Society and Member, EU (European Union) Academy of Sciences.

Frank Wilczek, frank.wilczek@asu.edu

Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT, Cambridge MA 02139, USA, Founding Director, T. D. Lee Institute, and Chief Scientist, Wilczek Quantum Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200240, China; Distinguished Professor, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ 85287 USA; Professor of Physics, Stockholm University