As an Indigo Research Mentor, you'll have the opportunity to work remotely with talented students from around the world, guiding and inspiring them as they pursue their academic passions. Some students will begin with a tabula rasa, sure only of the broad subject area they’ve chosen to research. Others will arrive having narrowed their interests down to a sub-field, and some may even have a research question prepared.

Your work will include helping students choose an outcome to target from our database — would they like to submit their research to a particular competition or high school journal, or is their project more open-ended? Then, you’ll help them shape their research question and provide them with a few sessions of background in the subject area. The remaining sessions are spent providing feedback and guidance as the student completes their literature review, chooses their methodology, composes their body paragraphs, and finalizes their paper. Your primary role throughout will be as guide and overseer, helping the student remain focused, directed, and on-track and ensuring their work meets a high standard of academic rigor.