Whitman, L. E., & Petersen, A., & Wyant, C. D. (2015, June), Work-in-Progress: Moving from Volunteering to Mentoring K12 Students: What Does It Take?  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.25105

\bibitem{asee_peer_25105}
  Whitman, L. E., \& Petersen, A., \& Wyant, C. D. (2015, June), \emph{Work-in-Progress: Moving from Volunteering to Mentoring K12 Students: What Does It Take?}
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/p.25105

Lawrence E. Whitman, Alex Petersen, and Christopher D Wyant.  "Work-in-Progress: Moving from Volunteering to Mentoring K12 Students: What Does It Take?".  2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://peer.asee.org/25105 Internet.  15 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_25105}
  Lawrence E. Whitman, Alex Petersen, and Christopher D Wyant.
  "Work-in-Progress: Moving from Volunteering to Mentoring K12 Students: What Does It Take?".
  \emph{2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://peer.asee.org/25105 Internet.  15 Jan, 2025

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