Mentorships
The Mentorship Program supports the fundamental mission of the Thomas Jefferson learning experience; to prepare students to enter the community with a global perspective on the role of science and technology, while promoting exploration and discovery, academic excellence, leadership, and citizenship.
Mentorship provides a unique opportunity for selected seniors to conduct individual research. Students are mentored by accomplished professionals in corporate, government and university research and development laboratories in the metropolitan Washington area. Students are excused from school to work at least 180 hours per semester at their Mentorship placements. They are assisted at TJHSST in their fields of interest by laboratory directors, faculty and the Mentorship program coordinator. Students maintain weekly logs, write detailed papers, prepare poster displays and give oral presentations. Students plan, implement, document and present projects selected in consultation with their mentors. Students are required to complete a portfolio of elements which are evaluated and managed by their Jefferson laboratory director.
A partial list of Jefferson’s more than one hundred Mentorship partners includes:
Advanced Interactive Systems
Aero Astro
ANSER
California Institute of Technology
CH2MHill - WDC
Children's Research Institute
Cubic Defense Applications
Design Tech
Digital Sandbox Inc.
Ensco Inc.
George Mason University
Georgetown University Hospital
Georgetown University Medical Center
Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study
Lemelson/MIT InvenTeams
Levigne Architects
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Mitretek Systems, Inc.
National Air and Space Museum
National Cancer Institute
Nortel Networks Kidz Online
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
The Catholic University of America
The Center for Naval Analysis
The Institute for Genomic Research
The Unyx Group
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
US Army - NVESD
US Department of HHS - National Institute of Mental Health
US Department of HHS - National Institutes of Health
US Geological Survey
US National Weather Service
US Naval Facilities Engineering Services Center
US Naval Media Center
US Naval Medical Research Center
US Naval Research Laboratory
US Naval Research Laboratory - CBMSE
US Naval Surface Warfare Center - Carderock
Virtual Technology Corporation
Walter Reed Army Institute for Research
Each year, Thomas Jefferson celebrates student achievement in Mentorship and our many Mentorship organizations and their employee mentors at the Annual Mentorship Fair. The Mentorship Fair highlights student projects and is usually held at the end of May. For more information, call: 703.750.8392.