Launchpad Mentorship

Career goals, technical skills, and a real project to finish.

Ages 14 to 18 · 6 months · One-to-one pairing · Free

What it is

If you are a girl aged 14 to 18, Launchpad pairs you one-to-one with a woman working in aerospace for six months. Together you work toward a real project: a career plan, a technical skill, a piece of research, or a presentation. It is not theory. It is something you finish.

We match mentors on discipline and ambition, not availability. If we cannot match you well straight away, we hold your place until we can.

What mentees get

Career goals, defined and pursued with someone who has done it
Technical skills, from coding to satellite imagery analysis
A real project to finish and present
A community of peers across 12 countries

Mentor requirements

Every mentor is vetted before they meet a young person.

All mentors go through background checks and reference verification before we pair them with a minor. Mentors commit to at least 2 hours a month for 6 months. Either side can end a pairing without giving a reason, and we re-match within a month.

Read our safeguarding policy →

Outcomes

74%

STEM pursuit rate

340

Women mentored

University partners

Based on follow-up surveys taken 12 to 24 months after the programme ends. These figures are subject to response bias. See our Impact methodology page for the limitations.

If you're wondering whether this is for you

You do not need permission to want this job. You need someone to tell you how the promotion cycle really works, and we have 340 women who will.

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Mentee applications require parental consent. Mentor applications require background check clearance.