<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Bj Morrison</b> <<a href="mailto:bj@sdsc.edu">bj@sdsc.edu</a>><br>Date: Nov 2, 2006 8:00 PM<br>Subject: ISCB CALL FOR MENTORS: E-mentoring opportunity - just 20 minutes per week
<br>To: ISCB Members and Colleagues <<a href="mailto:members@iscb.org">members@iscb.org</a>><br><br></span>
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<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><b><font color="#ff0000" face="Arial" size="2">CALL FOR MENTORS</font></b></span></p>
<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">Earlier this year ISCB joined as a partner society of MentorNet, the award winning e-mentoring program, to gain access for our student members who could benefit from this type of mentoring. There are currently some ISCB member protégés awaiting a mentor match, and this is where our professional members can directly contribute to our more junior members in an important way.
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<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">For Mentors, t</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">he MentorNet One-on-One Mentoring Programs are a chance to make a big difference in the life of a student in as little as 20 minutes a week.
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<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">MentorNet seeks science and engineering professionals in industry and government, either currently active, on leave, or retired, to mentor engineering and science community college, undergraduate,
</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">and</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">graduate students, who are interested in pursuing a professional future in the fields of engineering and science.
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<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">MentorNet also seeks tenured faculty members to mentor graduate students, postdocs and untenured faculty pursuing faculty careers. </font></span></p>
<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">Though mentors volunteer their time to benefit the protégé, they can also find a rewarding experience for themselves. "I hope [my student] is getting as much out of it as I am," is how one MentorNet mentor puts it. Well over 90% of participants would recommend MentorNet's e-mentoring programs to a friend or colleague.
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<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">Mentoring relationships last 8 months. Because mentors and students communicate entirely by email, they can communicate wherever and whenever they choose. MentorNet's research-based programs have proven effective by providing "real world" information, encouragement, advice, and access to networks for students, and particularly for those underrepresented in engineering and science fields. "My mentor always gives me the encouragement that I need," says one MentorNet student. "Sometimes those few words make a big difference to me."
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<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">How can you volunteer to be a mentor?</font></span></p>
<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">1) Join the MentorNet Community (</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><a href="http://www.mentornet.net/join" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">http://www.mentornet.net/join</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">
)</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> </span></p>
<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">2) Follow the One-on-One Mentoring Programs links to create a mentor profile.</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> </span></p>
<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">3) Be sure to indicate you are an ISCB member for the potential to be matched only with an ISCB protégé </font></span></p>
<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">How can you</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">sign up as a protégé</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span>
<span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">?</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">1) Be sure you are a current student/trainee member of ISCB</font></span></p>
<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">2) Follow steps one and two above, but select the protégé link instead of the mentor link</font></span></p>
<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">3) Upon verification of your membership status you will be eligible a mentor match</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">For more information</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2"> about MentorNet</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span>
<span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">, please</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">visit their web pages at</font></span><span lang="en-us"> </span><a href="http://www.MentorNet.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">www.MentorNet.net</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">
</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> (</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">please note the .net rather than .com which would lead you to a website hosting and development company)
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<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">Since 1998, MentorNet has matched more than 17,000 protégés and mentors with strong results. We hope you will join them!</font></span></p>
<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">MentorNet's sponsors include 3M Foundation, Alcoa Foundation, Agilent Technologies, Argonne National Laboratory, Bechtel Foundation, Cisco Systems, GE Global Research, Google, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corporation, Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Science Foundation, Naval Research Laboratory, NVIDIA, Sandia National Laboratories, SAP, Schlumberger,
S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, Symantec, and Texas Instruments.</font></span></p>
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