MentorNet News Bits & Bytes
Black History Month Partner Promotion
In honor of Black History Month, MentorNet is offering discounted MentorNet partnerships to campuses voted by Black Enterprise magazine as the top 50 colleges
and universities where African-American students are most likely to succeed. Campuses will receive full MentorNet program benefits through August 2005 at half the price. For information and to sign-up, go to
http://www.mentornet.net/documents/partners/campuses/
or contact us at program.team@mentornet.net for more information and eligibility.
Help MentorNet Match 500 Pairs
The Drive for 500 is on track to meeting its goal of matching 500 new mentor-protégé
pairs by the end of February. You can help us make it over the top by recommending MentorNet to your friends who would
be good mentors or would be interested in having one. If you recommend MentorNet to a friend/colleague, you will be entered in a weekly drawing to win a MentorNet t-shirt! All new and returning protégés who sign up for one of our One-on-One
E-Mentoring programs by February 28 receive a 10 percent discount on all Virgin Electronics products.
Student Leadership Corps Going Strong
There's still time to join the MentorNet Student Leadership Corps. SLC gives past and current protégés at our
participating campuses the opportunity to gain valuable skills and help spread the word about
MentorNet--and help us reach our goal of matching 500 mentor-protégé pairs by--February 28. All active participants will be rewarded,
and the top five participants will get Boomtube portable speakers from Virgin Electronics!
Mentors Available for Computer Science and Computer Engineering Protégés
Many mentors in computer science and computer engineering are available for matching
--so if you're a student in these areas, take advantage
of the wealth and sign up to be matched. MentorNet's Hard Drive campaign has recruited scores of new protégés through
direct outreach to student organizations, but many motivated mentors are from IBM, Symantec, SAP, Apple, and Microsoft
and other computer-related companies are ready to help you!
Get Writing! MentorNet's Second Annual Essay Contest Deadline Nears
The deadline for submissions for MentorNet's Second Annual Essay Contest is coming up soon-March 7. So honor your
mentor or protégé by relating how the MentorNet E-mentoring relationship helped your understanding of diversity, guided
your career choice, or contributed to your personal growth. Or, based on your E-mentoring experience, what advice can you
give to MentorNet to make the mentoring experience even better? Winning contestants in these categories will win prize
packages donated by 3M Corporation, and the grand prize winner will receive a 40GB iPod donated by Apple, which holds
10,000 songs. Essay-writers also may be chosen to participate in one of our upcoming MentorNet workshops.
So sharpen your pencils-or open your laptop-and get writing! See here for contest rules and information.
Welcome New Corporate Partners and Campuses
MentorNet is pleased to welcome Intel Corporation at the Leadership Circle level, Schlumberger at the Sustaining Partner level, and
AT&T at the Strategic Partner level.
We also welcome Boise State University as our newest partner. Purdue University; the University of Arizona; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Waterloo, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University are returning campus partners.
We are looking forward to
working with these partners to recruit and support their protégés in engineering, science, math and technology.
Celebrate National Engineers Week, February 20-26, 2005
This year's US theme is "Engineers: Turning Ideas into Reality", and the Global theme is "Engineers Make a World of
Difference." Celebrations and commemorations are planned across the country and in many global locations. One of the
highlights of the week will be "Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day," February 24. For more information, go to
www.eweek.org.