We run a nine-month entrepreneurship program for high school students across four Triangle school districts, and we need twenty mentors for the coming cohort. The commitment is genuinely small: two hours a month, one video call and one in-person session, September through May. Students work in teams of three on a real business idea, and the job is not to hand them the answer but to ask the questions nobody else in their life is asking yet. Mentors get a short training session, a background check that we pay for, and a group of other mentors to compare notes with. Last year 84% of students said their mentor was the most valuable part of the program, which is flattering and mildly alarming in equal measure.
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