MentorNet News Bits & Bytes
Discount for Campus Partners
Time's running out on MentorNet's Campus Fast Track promotion, which offers a half-price partnership
to campuses that renew or sign up by January 15. Campuses will receive full MentorNet program benefits
for the remainder of the academic year.
Help MentorNet Match 500 Pairs
The Drive for 500, launched last month in conjunction with National Engineers Week, seeks to match 500
new mentor-protégé pairs in January and February. You can help by recommending MentorNet to your friends
who would be good mentors or would be interested in having one. All new and returning students who sign
up to be matched by February 28 receive a 10 percent discount on Virgin Electronics products.
MentorNet Seeks Student Leaders
Protégés, both past and current, 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—and
help us reach our goal of matching 500 mentor-protégé pairs by 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.
Protégés Needed in Computer Science and Computer Engineering
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 is
also reaching out to student organizations whose members would be interested in having a mentor in these
fields.
Welcome New Corporate Partner, Affiliated Partner and Campuses
MentorNet is pleased to welcome Bechtel Corporation as a new corporate partner. Women in Engineering Programs
and Advocates Network (WEPAN) is our newest affiliated partner. To learn more about this program,
click here.
We also welcome the following campus partners: Stevens Institute of Technology; University of California,
Santa Cruz and the University of Cincinnati.
iPAQ Winner
Evgenya Smirnova won an iPAQ from HP in our random drawing of those who completed their mentoring evaluations
in the fall. She is an MIT graduate, and now an employee of MentorNet partner Los Alamos National Laboratory.
MentorNet Appearances
January 25: CEO Carol B. Muller will present a workshop, "Mentoring: The Good, the Bad, and the Useful"
noon-1 p.m. at the University of California, San Francisco, sponsored by the UCSF Center for Gender Equity,
Student Enrichment Series and the Graduate Division.
Women and ICT: Creating Global Transformation
Authors Jo Sanders, Sue Rosser, and Sophia Huyer will be joined by corporate leaders to address the global
economy and the necessity for the full participation of women in technology endeavors for this year's international
symposium on Women and Information and Communication Technology (ICT), June 12–14 at the World Trade Center,
Baltimore. The goal of the symposium is to create an agenda to increase the international participation of girls
and women in ICT. It is organization by the Center for Women and Information Technology at the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County, the World Trade Center Institute, and the Women in Global Science and Technology.
For more information, click here.