In2science

In2science is an innovative and proven multi-university school partnership program that places university students as peer mentors in Victorian low socio-economic schools. We use the power of mentoring relationships to increase Year 7-10 students enthusiasm for STEM learning, to improve student engagement, and to build aspirations for further STEM study. Since 2004, our volunteer university mentors have worked with over 78.000 students across over 2,000 semester-long placements in Victorian STEM classrooms (including 216 placements in 2022). We currently work with over 40 metropolitan and regional partner schools, the majority of which are low SES. Our mentors are trained to share three key things with their student mentees: their love and passion for STEM; their experience of studying STEM from high school through to university; and their up-to-date discipline knowledge and study skills. In doing so, they act as learning coaches, STEM role models, and mentors, working together ...