Mu Alpha Theta is excited to offer its members, in partnership with the National Science and Technology
Education Partnership, an outreach opportunity to commence in Fall 2008. Study Buddy is a
cutting edge, web-based, online peer-to-peer tutoring program designed to address low math scores of
underperforming middle and high school students. This homework assistance program utilizes the
latest interactive, collaborative technology to bring students from different locations across
the country together for online tutoring sessions.
In July of 2011, Mountain Pointe High School from Phoenix, AZ won the Motorola Foundation Convention Grant to attend
the 2011 Dallas National Convention. Attending the Convention on the grant were students John Delgado, Alexander Nguyen,
and David Van, along with their teacher, Stephen Heiser. Mountain Pointe High School's chapter had 46 Mu Alpha
Theta members sign up to tutor with the Study Buddy program, serving the more than 1100 students who had signed up to
receive tutoring at their school.
STUDENTS
As a Mu Alpha Theta member, you will be paired with students who are struggling and may not otherwise have
access to a tutor due to economic and/or geographic reasons. Your participation will be tracked by
software and will serve as community service credit hours. For more details see the
Tutor Guide. Also see some of our webinars online at
http://www.nstep-online.org/tools/Study_Buddy_Tutor_Webinars.asp .
TEACHERS
We encourage you to enroll your Mu Alpha Theta members in Study Buddy and can do so with minimal effort!
Detailed reports of tutor activity are available to enable you to monitor and log your students’
participation in the program. For more information see the
Teacher's Guide.
NSTEP welcomes inquiries from both teachers and students. Please email them directly at
studybuddy@nstep-online.org with questions
about how you can integrate Study Buddy into your classroom!
Recent video from Study Buddy:
For additional information, please visit the Study Buddy home page, and check back with us here for frequent updates!