So far, we have 47 PreSEED mentor-mentee pairs (out of 54 available) and
39 SEED mentor-mentee pairs (out of 54 available). The two worldwide
Engineering mentoring terms are 80% matched in the first month (the cycle began
on 3 December). Mentors are from Canada, China, Czech Republic, France,
Germany, India, Israel, Netherlands, UK, and the USA (California, Florida, Georgia,
Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Texas, and Virginia).
My December 2008 email file for SEED has 1,580 emails in it. One mentor
and one mentee have left Sun since matching started. There have only been
four matches since 22 December but the pace will pick up as people get back
to work from winter break. I plan to match the remaining mentees with mentors
of their choice in the next few weeks.
On 15 December, I started an experiment which I hope will improve
SEED communications. I set up a group for SEED
Engineering Mentoring mentees, mentors, and managers on
LinkedIn. In the first two weeks,
262 current and alumni SEED managers, mentors, and mentees have been
added to the new group. I have only had to decline a dozen or so requests
from non-SEED group wannabes. Some of those
LinkedIn requestors are from Sun,
some from outside. I have directed the Sun requestors to the SunWeb
pages for current SEED application information.
More?
More information on the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program
is available at
http://research.sun.com/SEED/
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