This year is the 10th anniversary of MentorNet’s e-mentoring program, and we encourage members of the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology, a key MentorNet partner, to help to make this the most successful year ever for mentoring women in technology by joining MentorNet’s Talent for Tomorrow Outreach Campaign. This campaign seeks to bring in 100 (10-squared) new participants (mentors and protégés) into the MentorNet One-on-One program for each of 10 weeks (totaling 1,000). Since the start of the campaign on February 4th, more than 600 mentors and proteges have signed up to participate in the One-on-One E-mentoring program. Now you can make a difference by becoming a mentor or protégé.
MentorNet (www.MentorNet.net), the E-Mentoring Network for Diversity in Engineering and Science, advances women and others underrepresented in engineering and related sciences in higher education and the workplace through e-mentoring. Through its One-on-One E-mentoring Program, MentorNet pairs undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and early career faculty members with professionals for structured, e-mentoring relationships which last eight months at time. Since 1998, MentorNet has matched more than 21,000 protégés world wide from more than 100 colleges and universities with mentors from more than 1,000 different employers.
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology has been a partner in MentorNet’s work since both organizations were founded in 1997.
Please take this opportunity to go to www.MentorNet.net and sign up to be a mentor or protégé today.
MentorNet (www.MentorNet.net) is a nonprofit [501(c)(3)] organization working to further the progress of women and others underrepresented in scientific and technical fields through the use of a dynamic, technology-supported mentoring network. MentorNet aims to advance individuals and society, and enhance engineering and related sciences, by promoting a diversified, expanded and talented global workforce. In partnership with colleges and universities, corporations, government labs and agencies and professional societies, MentorNet is international in scope, serving students and professionals all over the world. Major funding is provided by the National Science Foundation, IBM, Texas Instruments, Cisco Systems, Hewlett Packard, Intel Foundation, AT&T, 3M Foundation, Alcoa Foundation, and S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation.