ABSTRACT
This chapter explores many ways for mentors to expose students to experiences outside the realm of their everyday lives. It discusses the collaborating side by side; leading a class with professionals expertise; designing student games that teach critical thinking; developing a branding narrative for interviews; sharing life stories and trajectories of guest speakers; and taking field trips or touring project-related industries for research. Planning a fifty- to ninety-minute class based on professionals expertise, simplified for a young audience, can be an exhilarating yet intimidating experience. It can be challenging to make the lesson relevant, experiential, and fun enough to hold the attention of a classroom full of students. The case method teaching approach exposes students to world issues—principles, analysis, and problem solving—by using "decision-forcing cases", or decision games that ask students to take on the role of a person faced with a dilemma.
