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As a high school student at Mater Academy Charter, Jessica Perez never saw herself as a leader let alone a mentor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Shy and introverted, the teenager preferred the background rather than the spotlight. But that all changed when she enrolled at Miami Dade College and became part of <\/span>Hialeah Scholars<\/span><\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The initiative, based at Hialeah Campus, is a mentoring program aimed at showing first-year students the on-campus resources that are available to them so they can succeed and remain in college.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I joined Scholars it opened up doors for me,\u201d Perez said. \u201cIt helped me get a job at MDC and helped me gain more resources that I didn\u2019t even know the school [could] offer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hialeah Scholars was started in 2016 by dean of students <\/span>Nelson Maga<\/span>\u00f1<\/span>a<\/span><\/a><\/span> and Florine Lazard, a former employee at the campus.<\/span><\/p>\n

The idea was to help new students get acclimated to life on campus by having their peers show them the ropes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat first month can be a little intimidating,\u201d Maga<\/span>\u00f1a<\/span> said. \u201cWith that in mind we figured \u2018Let\u2019s get some students who\u2019ve figured it out and can communicate things a lot better than we can.\u2019 \u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

During the first year, the program had about seven mentors and 30 mentees. If a student wanted a mentor, they had to request one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now the mentors target first-year courses like SLS and ENC 1101. According to Maga<\/span>\u00f1<\/span>a, Hialeah Campus gets about 1,000 new students each fall semester.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[Mentees] see us around and just having that young fresh face helps because they\u2019re like \u2018Oh she\u2019s my age so I can probably speak to her,\u2019 \u201d said Nayely Rivero, a mentor in the program.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>To become mentors, students must <\/span>fill out an application<\/span><\/a><\/span> and meet various requirements including having a 2.5 GPA, be enrolled in a minimum of six credits in the fall and spring, and actively participate in the program year-round.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mentors earn community service hours for classroom visits through <\/span>The Institute for Civic Engagement and Democracy (ICED<\/span>)<\/span><\/a>, improve their communication skills and augment their resume with the experience they garner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Once selected, peer mentors are put through training. The training includes team-building sessions and shows mentors how to find on-campus resources that are available on campus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Those resources include Single Stop, Learning Resources, Financial Aid, Student Life, the Food Pantry, Career Closet and campus organizations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mentors are then assigned to a professor and attend class twice a week, every other week. During that period, mentors give 10-minute presentations about campus resources.<\/span><\/p>\n

Working closely with Manuel Rosa, the program\u2019s advisor, scholars also host events monthly to further engage students. Activities range from karaoke sessions, salsa events and trivia nights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[Students] tend not to listen to adults,\u201d Rosa said.\u00a0 \u201cWe relay the message and give the students training so that it comes from students they can relate to.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information about the program, contact Manuel Rosa at (305) 237-8862 or at mrosa@mdc.edu.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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