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Earning your cape through mentorship By JENNA STEVENS Ag in the Classroom Coordinator Clinton County Farm Bureau EASTERN IOWA FARMER do you want to be when you grow up; “What or what are you going to major in for college?” These might be the two most dreaded questions for any high school student to hear, second only to “Hey, did you study for the chemistry exam today?” Deciding what to do with the rest of our lives is challenging enough as an adult, yet we expect students who are barely old enough to drive a car to have it all figured out. All of us are guilty of asking these questions, myself included, especially if the student we are talking to is a senior. It is just what you ask. And we also make assumptions about what the correct answer to those questions should be. Most of the time it involves getting a four-year college degree and a job that makes at least $50K a year. For those kids who tell us they do not know what they want to do, we are immediately put off. How can you be a senior in high school and not know? It is the panic to avoid the “I don’t know” answer that sometimes causes kids to close their eyes and blindly throw a dart towards a career that they think sounds cool or might make them a lot of money. But once they start taking classes in a specific field, they oftentimes realize it is not what they initially thought. As the executive director of the CAC Media Group, I have the privilege to work with some of the best and brightest students in Clinton County. These students write about, interview, and connect to people all over the country and have built themselves impressive resumes in the process. They have not been able to accomplish these things alone. Each of these students has found mentors within agriculture, people who have invited them in and taken the time to guide them to be better versions of themselves. Mentorship is a term that most of us associate with someone else’s action. Mentors are not who we are; rather, they are some unknown persons who devote their weekends to tutoring underprivileged youth or star athletes who put on children’s camps and then sign autographs at the end of the day. Mentors are people with something to offer. We are just normal people, no superhero cape around our shoulders. And yet most of us have memories of a time when we coached a little league team or volunteered in our child’s classroom to talk to them about our career or an interesting hobby we might have. It is these everyday moments of teaching that prompted the members of our media team to create their own mentor’s project as a way to help connect kids who are looking for guidance in their futures with adults who have experiences or skills they can share. The premise behind this project is to show students what opportunities are available to them based on the types of things they are interested in and help them gain real-life knowledge about a career before they start college. The process of pairing up students with mentors starts with honest conversations about strengths, weaknesses, passions, and dislikes. These conversations are designed to help students recognize what they like doing and what they are good at rather than focusing on a specific job or salary point. What students sometimes find is that their strengths and passions do not always align with their original thoughts about a career, but, instead, they are actually interested in doing something that they maybe were not even aware was an option. Trying out different career paths through job shadows, interviews, or even project-based learning gives students the chance to experience what their daily tasks may entail and is also an opportunity for adults to share the professional knowledge they have gained over the years. This sharing of self through knowledge and time is what it really means to be a mentor and is also what makes the biggest impact on students. Those individuals in the community and across the country who have stepped up to help share with kids have found their own lives have been enhanced because of the experience. Mentors all across Iowa are creating a positive difference in the lives of students, and that is certainly worthy of a superhero cape. n eifarmer.com Fall 2021 | Eastern Iowa Farmer 97 EasternIowaFarmer_Fall2021.indd 97 9/15/21 10:25 am
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