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The JSM Mentoring Program matches senior statisticians (mentors) with junior statisticians (students, new ASA members, and first-time JSM attendees).
Mentors - Please consider serving in this important role. Your participation will entail sending an email to your assigned mentee about a week before JSM to decide on a time and place to meet at least once during JSM. Many of us were fortunate to have a colleague show interest in us and help us open doors in our career. Please help strengthen the statistics community by doing the same for a junior statistician this year at JSM.
Mentee - Are you interested in applying to participate in this program? To help you decide, here is what your participation will entail: connecting with your mentor prior to JSM to decide on a time and place to meet during JSM. This mentoring program is one way the ASA is promoting the practice and profession of statistics. Getting mentoring advice from a more senior statistician can help open doors in your career and help you, in turn, promote the practice and profession of statistics.
JSM docents (derived from the Latin verb docēre, which means to instruct, teach, or point out) are members who understand how JSM “works” and are willing to share their knowledge with first-timers. JSM docents—identified by a purple name badge ribbon and a button—answer questions about how to choose which JSM events to attend, how to network, what to look for in the EXPO, and how to have fun at JSM. Docents will also serve as table hosts at the First-Time Attendee Orientation and Reception on Sunday, July 29, from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
MWM will take place in conjunction with the Joint Statistical Meetings. The workshop is meant to strengthen K–12 mathematics and science teachers’ understanding of statistics and provide them with hands-on activities aligned with the Common Core State Standards that they can use in their own classrooms.
The cost of the workshop is $50.