Marvel: Ultimate Mentor Adventure for girls interested in STEM fields

Marvel is doing something marvelous for girls who are interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) around the release of Thor: The Dark World. The program is called Ultimate Mentor Adventure. Here’s how it works.

Natalie Portman, who plays Jane Foster, an astrophysicist, in Thor: The Dark World describes the program in a video you can see here.

• Girls from the U.S. in grades 9 – 12 can apply. The minimum age is 14.
• Each girl is connected to a mentor who is working in a field in which the girl is interested.
• The girl interviews the mentor and makes a video.
• The videos are entered in the contest.
• The winner gets to go to the opening of Thor: The Dark World in California and see the video they made shown along with the film. The winner also gets to go behind the scenes at the movie.

A girl really cannot lose by participating in this mentor adventure. Just by participating she gets to meet a woman in a position she wants to know more about. The girls get help finding the mentors and making the videos. Everyone who participates will have a positive experience whether she wins or not.

Kudos to Marvel for this brilliant idea.