RISE ResearchReviews of riseglobaleducation.com

Hello! The whole program is about 8 weeks long and I felt like initial 2 sessions were not used fruitfully as the mentor didn't seem in sync with my kid and it took a bit of prodding from the coordinator for the mentor to get more involved in helping out/making suggestions on the reading material, giving pointers on what exactly to look for on the treatments for melanoma topic that was picked for high school journal publication. Maybe the session should be 10 weeks long or the mentors need to have very clear idea, agenda when they meetup with kids so that there's no ambiguity on the guidance and the goal of publishing a paper. So, clearly the program could get much much better, as I feel like I've spent a very large sum of money in just 8 weeks! Also, the writing coaches seem to be using AI to help write the papers, which a student could also do by using many available AI tools in the market. I believe the writing coach could have spent some time on giving background, setting expectations of writing journals, so that the student could get a grounding for future research paper publishing. There's still some time left and am hoping as a parent that my kid can come out with a good paper with the help from mentor and the writing coach. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to share my thoughts

The communication channel is not regularized and 4 hours per week is not happening as initially agreed. So we are not happy with the kind of progress that is happening on the research work

I like how friendly everyone is. I was under the consumption that I would be doing research with a professor rather than someone at a company in a different country (was kind of avoided talking about). Also everything does feel rushed

At the beginning of RISE, I found the research process quite difficult to understand, especially because I had never worked on a systematic review before. There was a lot of new terminology and methodology that I initially struggled to follow. However, my mentor was really supportive and helped me understand each step and why it was important. As I progressed, I became more comfortable with searching databases, screening papers, and organising my research. Although the process has been challenging, it has helped me become more confident and given me a much better understanding of what conducting real scientific research involves.

The coordination was great, and my writing tutor helped me the most. However, my mentor in the field wasn't able to provide the best of assistance

I liked my mentor; she had the same interests as me, and she helped me a lot throughout the process. I had trouble with my first writing coach, so I had to switch. With my second one, he had to reschedule a lot and showed up to meetings 10-15 minutes late occasionally. His viewpoints on certain things didn't match my mentor's, so I always had to do my own research in the middle of meetings to see what to follow.

They where spoon-feeding a lot, and the writing coach was very late to meeting, also the times where very hard I had to wake up at 5:30 am. Other than that they are good at helping the student out if they don't know what to do