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Life!
Change a

Become a Mentor for SEEK

I

By Matthew P. Clark, NSBE SEEK Coordinator

t's summer break, and the clock on the wall reads 7 a.m.
As the sun begins to rise over the gentle waves of Lake
Pontchartrain in New Orleans, you and 49 other young
men and women are shaking the sleep from your body.
You're nervous yet excited, knowing that in the next
10 hours, you will take the first of many steps toward
changing the future of the United States of America, as a
mentor of elementary school and middle school students in
the Summer Engineering Experience for Kids (SEEK).
You move toward your closet, still struggling to decide which
outfit will create the best first impression. As the endorphins
rush through your body, your mind scrambles through
possibilities of what will happen two hours from now. Your
body is on autopilot, and as you eat your breakfast, your
mind is elsewhere. A stray question floats through your mind:
"What will they think of me?" You grasp how important those
first few moments will be, those first words that slip from
your lips as you stand shoulder to shoulder with two of your
peers, gazing across a room full of children. All of the calm
confidence you gained in training the previous week vanishes
for a moment...but only one moment. Then that moment
fades, and all of that confidence comes roaring back. You
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