Space Generation Gets a Boost
Mentoring brings people closer to their dreams – Shayna HUME, co-lead for SGAC’s new Mentorship Initiative and 2018 Matthew Isakowitz Fellow, shares her view on how we can help each other strive for success. See below for an excerpt:
”…Organizations like SGAC and SEDS-USA put these young scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and creators face to face with something even more radical: leaders. Leaders their own age, of their own nationality, and with resumes not so different from their own. Leaders, whose voices travel somewhere, and who actually get a say in this often-hierarchical industry. And, best of all, leaders who want to reach a hand across, and help the newcomers to find their footing.
”You see, the magic of the new space generation is that rather than waiting for anyone else’s help, this generation realized that they could successfully help each other, and have since leveraged every possible avenue of the modern world to do so.
”It’s exciting, inclusive, and – frankly – heartwarming. In space, it feels very easy to get left behind, especially if you don’t know anyone. Today’s students and young professionals understand that, and have seem to have decided that with them, enough is enough. In today’s space generation, there is no passing the buck – no one is too young to be a mentor to their peers, and through the medium of the internet, no one is too remote to make a difference. In the path to the stars, there are few wrong ways. But, it’s hard to argue that any way can be more right than helping each other. This Space Generation gets this, and I can’t wait to see where in the universe it will take us.”
Read the full article on Space Generation’s website.
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