MentorNet News Bits & Bytes
MentorNet Seeks Student Leaders
Past and current protégés may qualify for the MentorNet Student Leadership
Corps, which gives you the opportunity to gain valuable skills to add to your
résumé and help spread the word about MentorNet so we can reach our goal of
matching 500 mentor-protégé pairs in January and February. All participants
will be rewarded - and the top five participants will get Boomtube portable
speakers from Virgin Electronics! For more information contact info@mentornet.net.
Campus Partner Discount Offer; Drive for 500 New Pairs
MentorNet is offering a half-price partnership to new or former partner campuses
that sign up by January 15, as part of the MentorNet Campus Fast Track.
Campuses will receive full MentorNet program benefits for the remainder of the
2004-2005 academic year. Also, in cooperation with National Engineers Week,
MentorNet is launching "Drive for 500," which seeks to match 500 new
mentor-protégé pairs in January and February. For more information
Click Here.
Cisco Systems Honors MentorNet
MentorNet was selected as a grand prize winner in the nonprofit category in the
Cisco Growing with Technology Awards 2004 as an organization that effectively
uses a network to make a sustainable difference. Cisco announced the winners
November 16. For details, see the press release.
Save the Date
On Sunday, April 10, 2005, MentorNet will be sharing our expertise on emerging
research and best practices for e-mentoring in a day-long workshop: "Success
through Mentoring," in collaboration with the 2005 WEPAN/NAMEPA conference in
Las Vegas. Watch for more information in the near future!
MentorNet Welcomes New Campuses
Harvard University and Bowdoin College are the newest MentorNet campus partners.
We also thank Los Alamos National Laboratory for renewing its sponsorship at
the partner level.
And the Winner Is...
Grace Qiu, a computer science sophomore from Iowa State University, is the proud
recipient of a MentorNet sweatshirt, which she won in our monthly drawing from
new protégés. New and returning students who sign up to be matched by December
31 will be automatically in our next drawing-for our cool, newly designed,
MentorNet T-shirt.
Holiday Planning for Mentoring Pairs
Mentors and protégés, get ready for the upcoming holidays (and, unfortunately,
exams) by letting one another know about your schedules and vacation plans. And
protégés, it's a great time to think about using some post-exam downtime to ask
your mentors about issues you haven't yet addressed.