TryEngineering Together - Cricket Media, Inc.

Put Kids on the Path
to STEM Careers

A safe, innovative eMentoring platform
delivering a life-changing experience
for children, employees, and companies

Co-created by IEEE and Cricket Media, TryEngineering Together™ is a meaningful eMentoring Program that:

  • Gets kids in under-resourced communities excited about STEM
  • Excites employees
  • Enables employee participation from any location, at any time, in only 2 to 3 hours per month
  • Is easy to administrate and use—the platform does the work
  • Requires no advanced degree
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How It Works

eBook: Introducing eMentoring

Cricket e-Mentoring book, expanding the reach of mentorship

In the eBook you will learn:

  • The benefits and limitations of face-to-face mentoring.
  • How eMentoring enables mentoring at a dramatically larger scale and with a far greater reach.

Get Involved!

For Corporate Partners 
& Employee Volunteers

Flexible, Rewarding eMentoring for Employee Volunteers

TryEngineering Together makes it easy to offer employees the opportunity to make a difference.

Participating is easy. The time commitment is just 2 to 3 hours per month, and it can be done at any time, from any location.

Administration is easy too—the system does the work.

For Educators

Give every student a knowledgeable STEM eMentor!

TryEngineering Together provides rich STEM resources and activities, with eMentors who are your partners in helping your students fall in love with STEM.

The easy-to-manage platform enables students and eMentors to read the same articles and exchange online letters about the STEM subjects they are studying. Teachers guide the learning with a series of standards-aligned units, including hands-on activities.

Our Sponsors

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United Way logo, United Way of Midland County
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Now Serving Middle Schoolers!

In partnership with Northrop Grumman Foundation, Cricket Media & IEEE are pleased to announce a middle school extension (grades 6–8) of TryEngineering Together for Fall 2020.

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