Wicomico Mentoring Project Analysis

The group project with my fellow group members Avery Ezell, DaShawn Gilliam and Ayaka Matsunaga was a success. Our topic focused on mentoring where we decided to partner with the Wicomico Mentoring Project in Salisbury, Maryland. The project provides “adult role models who volunteer to work with students to improve their grades, attendance and behaviors” (Wicomico County Public Schools). The coordinator Mark Thompson was more than glad to become our mentor to help our group make an impact on his organization. In addition, Professor Melany Trenary was a part of the project where she became another mentor. She contributed in our promotional video and allowed us to obtained feedback on her Communication class that mentors every semester.
Our goal was to bring awareness to the Salisbury community about mentoring and to recruit local individuals for the mentoring project. Our target audience was locals due to the long lasting relationships that can be created with the mentee over a period of time compare to students that only resides in the Salisbury area for a short period of time. As a group we …show more content…
In the group, three out of the four of us major in Human Communications track which led to multitasking and learning new things to help another group member out. I learn to be mindful that everyone have different personalities, cultural background which leads to weaknesses and strengths in different areas. I learn to keep going regardless of obstacles that the group may face during the project. Also, to always have a back-up plan to fall back on just in case one task fails. Engaging in a positive attitude which will motivate me to achieve the group goals and learning how to work with others regardless of my past bad group experience so I will suffer less from group hate. Finally, I learn through the progress reports that other groups had challenges as well and it is good to connect with