Yesterday, we selected 33 new SEED Engineering mentoring program
participants from Israel and Russia. The selection was difficult
because this was a very accomplished and highly recommended
group. We ended up picking 11 from Tel Aviv (Herzliya) and
22 From St. Petersburg from among the 45 applicants. As usual,
about a quarter of the participants are women. Unusually,
all of this group works in Sun’s Software Group.
Since the selection meeting, Tanya Jankot and I have been very busy indeed.
We have sent out announcements, started the Mentor Wish List building
process, set up email lists, and done all of the electronic and
management chores that go along with setting up a new SEED term.
I have also been communicating with disappointed managers of staff
who were not selected.
Today, Tanya created an internal individual web page for each
participant to help show them off to potential mentors. The
participants will now have until 22 February to personalize those
web pages and send us their Mentor Wish Lists.
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