"New Person" podcast · Season on the future of education — episode 2
"New Person" on Sci-High — episode 2: the mentors
Episode two of the "New Person" series on Sci-High — the people who choose to mentor a student team and what they take away from the role.
The second episode of the “New Person” series profiles the mentors — researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs from MIT, leading Bulgarian universities and industry, who join a student team online for an hour every week.
In the conversation:
- What makes a busy professional spend an hour a week with 13–18-year-olds.
- What the mentor gets from the role — framed as a gain, not a sacrifice.
- The difference between a question that opens a conversation and one that closes it.
- Stories about moments when the mentor learned something new from the student.