Few important Q/A before we take you to the challenge:

Why becoming mentor at Growr?

Our answer has been the following: Because mentoring is inspiring, motivating, life-changing, challenging and noble; it opens possibility for you to explore, research and learn in such unconventional ways... and the reasons can only multiply as we speak. The best way to confirm your understanding of something is to share it with someone else. And don't forget that we all have things we are passionate about and we all have valuable knowledge to share. So, why keep it to ourselves only?

Why becoming Mentee at Growr?

Our answer has been the following: Because you will gain the support, advice, encouragement, and even friendship from amazing peers and experts around the globe! You will find someone who will care about you as the whole person, not just the academic or career side of you. You will explore and collaborate with mentors from completely different cultures, countries and continents. Last but not least, we all need each other to fulfill our individual potentials and we need to be part of something bigger. It IS not only helping us to reach our goals, but even more significantly, we'll never be alone.

How we define Peer-Mentorship?

Our answer has been the following: The peer-to-peer mentoring is a relation of mutual learning and friendship. The peer-mentor will care for the whole person of its peer-mentee, not just their academic or career side. The peer-mentor will also seriously take the task to support the mentee, to challenge him/her with new ideas, and to encourage the mentee to move beyond the things that are most comfortable; to push this person out of their comfort zone. Most peer-mentors are picked for their confidence, empathy, social skills and reliability.

Here yet another challenge for you: we have answered why to become mentor or mentee, and this may have already sparkled some ideas in your head! Now, it’s your turn to finish and enrich the answers. Co-create and identify with us, what’s the IDEAL profile of the mentor / mentee to be on Growr!

What are we asking for?

Wе’re inviting you to think about how you can learn and benefit best if you were to have the best mentor you can possibly imagine OR how you could gain your personal knowledge by being the best possible mentee. What would you do? What features you would have highlighted for yourself in front of your mentor? How will your virtual mentorship function?

Anywhere between 4-7 slides describe the personality of the ideal mentor/mentee you imagine

Your Task:

1. Identify the best features of your Growr mentor or mentee

2. Decide what would be three fields (skills, themes, topics) you will like to grow at and that your mentor/mentee can boost you with 

3. Get creative! Imagine if your mentor/mentee is seeing the slides of your power-point presentation. What would you like them to read? 

4. There is no box how you envision your PPT. Once your presentation is complete, make your submission

5. Share your PPT with the Growr community, over Growr Facebook channel or your personal social media channels. Comments and feedback from your friends would be much appreciated 

Your Tips:

Tip 1: Try to answer the following questions:

1.What’s your story?

2.How come you like/prefer virtual  mentorship?

3.Do you think virtual mentorship can work?

4.What’s the freedom of having mentor/mentee virtually?

5.What’s the potential of intercultural exchange?

6.The first thing you would go on with sharing to your peer on Growr would be…?

Tip 2: Make a creative visualization of your Growr buddy (Where does he/she live? In which country is he/she situated? etc) 

Tip 3: If you borrow someone else’s image or photo, be sure to credit it. Same goes for quote or other resource.

Judging & Evaluation Criteria

Submissions will be evaluated on the following criteria:

1.Creativity of the story presentation.  

2.Communication of the “profile” of the mentor/mentee - Just like writers imagine the perfect reader when they write their book of fiction, try to imagine addressing your perfect peer buddy

3.Humour, humanity, and beauty - A peer buddy, the one we all wish to have over Growr would be nothing but their soul unraveling…. how better than adding the humour, the humanity, the beauty? 

4.What have you learnt from it. - The most valuable lessons a mentor/mentee can deliver are..?

Who are the Judges?

Your submission will be evaluated by all members of the C:F Youth Advisory Board ; Each member will have vote 1 to 4 on each of the above-set criteria. Aside, voting will be open to the C:F community, so your votes from community will be combined with the votes of the jury. There will be one BIG community winner and one BIG winner selected by jury. 

Timeline: 

• Submissions for challenge are open: until 31st January, 2016
• Voting for community: until 31st January, 2016 
• Judges review and voting: 15 - 31st January, 2016
• Winner announcement: 10 February, 2016

Awards:

1. Invitation to share an authentic Growr TIP for life and career on Growr Facebook site. Your advise for the global youth will be promoted to an audience of 10,000 alongside your professional links (personal blogs, LinkedIN, webpage etc)

2. Invitation to be part of the C:F Youth Advisory Board or Growr management board 

Resources and useful links:

http://www.growr.net/faq/

https://www.facebook.com/careergrowr

http://www.challengefuture.org/news/829