The pilot will come to the classroom and talk to the students about his or her job and the students can email the pilot and watch the flight tracker to locate their pilot daily. At the end of the month the students are invited to the airport where they are given a tour and a reception is held for the pilot and students. There are also activities that can be downloaded that very nicely compliment the Fourth grade Science curriculum. This program started with Hewlett Packard who still encourages many of their employees to be involved. The mentoring focuses around 12 weeks worth of assignments that are all posted on the website so that you can see the projects that are being worked on by all the students and mentors that are participating in the telementoring program.
Computer time is made available to the students to email with their mentors.
The students are paired with someone with similar interests and they have to do an assignment that they can share with their mentor - they can ask their mentor for suggestions, etc. Telementoring has become very common and they have not had any problems with the principal approving it or parents signing the permission slip. They send a copy of the school policy about the Internet and to help prepare students and parents about what can happen on the Internet. The students really love this project.