The 52 PreSEED participants submitted their Mentor Wish Lists this morning,
starting the mentor matching cycle for this term. Tanya Jankot spent
the morning updating participants’ web pages and learning goals from emails
over the weekend. Once we were set to go, she and I went through the
lists to find the highest priority potentially-available mentor. (Among this PreSEED
term’s lists, there were 9 potential mentors who had more than one request for them
at #1 priority. There were 36 potential mentors requested by five or more participants.
191 unique mentors were requested.)
I just finished sending individual emails to all 52 first contact potential mentors.
Now we wait for their responses… During the next two weeks, I expect to have a
mentor match for at least 80% of the participants. I plan to match all of them within
the next 45 days.
For the flow charts of this process, see
“SEED: Sun engineering enrichment & development”
Research Disclosure Database Number 482013, defensive publication
in Research Disclosure, Published in June 2004, Electronic
Publication Date : 17 May 2004 (5 pages, PDF format)
PreSEED is a pilot of the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program.
More information on SEED is available at
http://research.sun.com/SEED/
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