SMP initiative

We are excited to announce that we are entering into a partnership with the Student Mentorship Program (SMP) at Roorkee. SMP assigns a student mentor to every incoming student. Our goal is to assign an alumni mentor to every incoming student as well. 

Details

About AMP

AMP connects students to alumni. It has received very positive feedback from both students and mentors. We have about 200 mentors who have volunteered to help. However the reach of AMP has been limited, so far due to various factors. Students might hesitate reaching out to senior alumni, or due to AMP’s limited presence on campus.

About SMP

Student Mentorship Program assigns a mentor (a 3rd or 4th year student) to all 1st year students. It bridges the communication gap between senior and first-year students by providing an environment for healthy discussion, guidance and one to one counseling. It is one of the largest on-campus student initiatives and I think Roorkee is the only IIT to offer this program.

Since SMP and AMP have complementary goals, this is a win-win partnership. 

Benefits

• SMP and 1st year students get help from alumni mentors

• AMP gets to serve many more students. Some of the students might form long-term bonds with the AMP mentors.

Model of allocating mentors

• Each AMP mentor will be assigned 3-4 SMP mentors. SMP mentors in turn have a number of students (between 4-6).

• The mentoring will be a in group setting due to the large number of mentees. We anticipate about 1 meeting per month.

• AMP mentor connects with SMP mentors for the logistics.

• We will try to allocate AMP mentors to the SMP mentors from their own branch

Logistics

• We did a pilot of this program in Oct 2022, when the 1st year batch starts. As the first year schedule in the academic year was still offset due to delayed JEE exams, only a few meetings were held.

• We are running the second batch of this intiative in 2023.