We have now matched 30 out of the 33 participants from Tel Aviv and
St. Petersburg. The remaining 3 are actively being considered
by potential mentors.
Our MidTerm event is tomorrow with
talks by Sun CTO
Greg Papadopoulos and Sun Fellow Bob Sproull.
Greg is SEED’s executive sponsor and Bob has served as a SEED mentor
more often than anyone else. This event is called “mid-term” because
the SEED year runs September to September (for the convenience of
new college grads joining SEED’s Recent Hire program).
We have also just announced and opened the application period for a
pilot mentoring term to benefit Engineering staff who came to Sun through StorageTek. Pilot SEED terms have somewhat different criteria and rules from
the program as a whole. SEED has run 4 location-specific pilots in the last few
years, but this will be our first professional-area-specific term.
It will be interesting to see what differences that mix of participants
makes, if any.
I just sent in our monthly report and realized that, counting the
pilot just announced, SEED is running 5 terms at the same time.
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