Pre-Award Worksheet

To be completed live during your pre-award workshop and submitted at the end. You will receive a copy of your responses. This will also serve as the attendance tracker to confirm that you have fulfilled one of the requirements to receive your funding.

Name(Required)
Planned Graduation Year

Elevator Pitch

Institutional Learning Outcomes

ILO Connection
What Institutional Learning Outcome(s) do you think you will improve during this project?
Choose one of the ILOs you selected above and share a specific example of how you think that growth will happen during your project.
ILO Disconnection
What Institutional Learning Outcome(s) do you think will not be part of your experience?
Why do/does the ILO(s) indicated above feel hard to achieve?

Project Context

What 1-2 courses or experiences prepared you for this?
What will you actually DO this summer? What planning/prep needs to happen before day 1? What existential question about your trajectory do you want this project to help you answer?
What is one next step this prepares you for?

Working with your Mentor

What do you most want to learn from your mentor beyond project guidance?
What person/organization/lab/grad school/employer would you love to have your mentor connect you to?
What do you hope your mentor will be able to speak to in a letter at the end of the summer?