Pay-It-Forward Mentoring
Pay it forward. Give something in life for free! The gift will return somehow, somewhere, sometime.
Most people can be mentors in some aspects of life, whether you are 20 and mentoring a sixteen year old in school or an executive mentoring a junior manager. Finding a mentor allows us to avoid making mistakes. Mentoring a protege allows us to give something back to society and inspire healthy growth in someone willing to learn. A cycle of real life learning is created and our society flourishes.
Being close to the industry has allowed the University to tap on the business savvy and management expertise of its industry partners, various MNCs and business organizations in mentoring and nurturing its start-up ventures. Pay-It-Forward Mentoring allows University to reciprocate by getting its students to contribute back to Society by mentoring more junior level students instead.
Under the Pay-It-Forward Mentoring program, NUS students provide mentoring to more junior students from polytechnics, junior colleges and secondary students who are involved with NUS Entrepreneurship Centre's Outreach Programmes. The initial batch of students under this program includes students from NUS Overseas College Alumni (NOC), NUS Entrepreneurship Society (NES), and NUS students taking various Technopreneurship Minor courses and Electives.
These students have had the experience working with startup business ventures, venture-related activities, and the venture community, through their attachments with high-tech Startups in Silicon-Valley, Bio-Valley and Science Parks, involvements with entrepreneurial events like Start-Up@Singapore, Global Entrepolis@Singapore, as well as exposures to business Startups issues and business plans. They are recruited to provide mentoring and guidance for entrepreneurial projects undertaken by schools or the general community which approach NUS for support.
The Centre encourages schools and students who are interested in the Pay-It-Forward Mentoring programme to send an e-mail to necquery@nus.edu.sg
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