Mentors and Mentoring Activities [top]

CSE mentors are CCC professors and other professionals working in various scientific fields. Our mentoring system allows students to work closely with professors/scientists and gain wonderful advice.
See link for current mentors

Students are assigned a mentor group with whom he or she meets once a week for approximately three hours. Every mentor´s approach to the mentoring group is unique. Mentoring activities include, but are not limited to:

• Advice on academic progress;
• Discussion of academic major and career choices;
• Time management and leadership training;
• Discussion of summer research internships and scholarships;
• Writing resume and letters;
• Mock interviews;
• Assistance with writing personal statements and essays for school application;
• Individual conferences to deal with individual concerns;
• Building projects;
• Science-related films and documentaries;
• Visiting and critiquing websites;
• Solving logic puzzles, and many more.

Study Sessions [top]

CSE program provides study sessions in General and Organic Chemistry, Physics 130, Math 171 and 190. The study sessions are designed to help students better understand materials covered in class, prepared for quizzes/tests and succeed in the classes as well as address knowledge gaps.
See link for study sessions schedule

Seminars [top]

CSE invites speakers from various science, engineering and medical fields to share their academic and research experience with CSE students. The talks are held on Friday afternoons at 2 pm in Physical Science building room 132 (PS 132). Seminars are usually concluded with refreshment in PS 109.
Check the CSE Calendar for coming up events

Tutoring [top]

CSE students are required to spend two to three hours per week tutoring fellow CCC students in science and/or math. Students can select the subject area and level of difficulty to tutor. Tutoring is done in the PS 109.
See link for tutoring schedule

Academic Field Trips and Sport Activities [top]

CSE director and staff arrange fieldtrips to broaden students´ breadth of knowledge as well as have fun. Fieldtrips include visits to four year universities, science museums, aquariums, construction sites and bridges, national research labs, chocolate factory and many other places.
Sport activities include hiking, backpacking, "easy does it" water polo, basketball, baseball and rock climbing.
See link to CSE photo album

Annual Picnic [top]

All prospective, current and alumni students are invited to the CSE Annual Party which is usually held in October.
See link to CSE photo album