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With personalised mentorship, expert guidance, and a proven track record, we help students craft strong, standout applications.\nIn the 2025 admissions cycle, our students secured 10+ Oxbridge offers and 15+ Ivy League offers, showcasing the strength of our strategies and the quality of our mentorship. From Oxford to Harvard, Cambridge to Columbia, we help ambitious students turn their aspirations into achievement.\nWith Rostrum, students benefit from a strategy that can increase their chances of admission up to 5 times, helping them turn their ambition into achievement and applications into success stories.\nRole Overview:\nWe are seeking a technically strong, curious, and student-focused STEM Advisory Mentor to support high school students in developing research projects, computational work, engineering projects, and competition submissions.\nThe ideal candidate is a recent graduate or Master's student with strong subject knowledge and a demonstrated project, research, or technical portfolio. You will work with students from the early stages of an idea through to a well-structured research project, technical prototype, competition submission, or publication.\nThis role combines STEM mentorship, research guidance, computational problem solving, and academic development.\nKey Responsibilities:\n1. Student Mentorship & Project Development:\nDevelop, refine, and stress test physics, mathematics, computer science, data science, and engineering project ideas.\nHelp students turn broad interests into focused research questions, hypotheses, methodologies, and feasible project plans.\nSupport programming, debugging, data analysis, modelling, simulations, statistical analysis, and visualisation.\nSupport computational and engineering projects, including prototyping, CAD, digital design, and simulations where relevant.\nGuide students through literature searches, literature reviews, research methodology, and interpretation of academic papers.\nReview research methods, datasets, analyses, results, papers, proposals, posters, presentations, and technical reports.\n2. Competitions & Publications:\nPrepare students for research and innovation competitions such as IRIS, Conrad Challenge, Blue Ocean, and similar national or international STEM competitions.\nGuide students on competition strategy, project framing, technical development, documentation, presentations, and judging criteria.\nSupport students interested in publishing their work, including manuscript structure, research standards, peer review, revisions, and publication ethics.\nHelp students identify appropriate publication platforms designed for high school researchers, such as the Journal of Student Research and the Journal of Emerging Investigators.\n3. STEM Pathways & Application Support:\nIdentify relevant competitions, internships, research programmes, summer schools, external mentors, and other STEM opportunities.\nHelp students explore STEM majors, minors, concentrations, and interdisciplinary academic pathways.\nReview STEM application materials, including activity descriptions, research summaries, project portfolios, and competition descriptions.\nEvaluate students holistically, considering interests, curiosity, communication, initiative, personal character, and unique perspectives alongside academic preparation.\n4. 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