Katy Dickinson

Interviewing for College at Starbuck's

My daughter Jessica is now in the last half of her Senior year in High School. All of nine college applications are in. She just finished her final vocal audition last week and recently participated in two of the final three alumni interviews. She is still trying to arrange a time for that last interview.

Except for those at the university admissions offices, I think all of Jessica's interviews have been held at Starbuck's coffee shops. A friend of ours who does alumni interviews for his alma mater says that Starbuck's is sufficiently public that both the interviewer and candidate feel safe; also, there are lots of Starbuck's shops around and they are usually easy to find. (I am currently re-reading Moby Dick in which the moral but pliable first mate is named Starbuck. The coffee shop chain is named for him.)

We are still getting letters from schools saying they are missing information already sent. For one school, she sent in her musical profile three times before they acknowledged getting it. I suspect that some schools are not as organized as they require their applicants to be.

We will be happy to be done with waiting to hear back. All of the schools are supposed to give Jessica their acceptance or denial letters by 1 April. One interviewer told her they would say by 15 March. Another school asked her to apply for a binding early admission (she declined). A third college had a professor write her a personal letter about his new program. I think all of this communication means that at least some of Jessica's applications are well regarded. But I would still like to know for sure. I hate waiting.

We are sending in our 10th week summer Blue Camp Bear's Lair reservations without knowing whether Jessica will be able to go or if we will have to cut our camping short to move her into a dorm.

Posted at 06:14PM Feb 15, 2007 by katysblog in Home & Family  |  Comments[1]

SEED Mentoring Press and Publication History

Here are publications, articles, and announcements in the public press and on the open web about the SEED program. (I just updated the internal-to-Sun SEED web pages so I will include the information here too.) I have included live links where I could find them. There may be more articles but I don't know about them...

2007

• Ida Abbott Consulting Management Solutions Issue 17, Winter 2007 "Best Practices - Proving the Value of Mentoring" profiles SEED

• "Success Metrics from Mentoring by the Numbers" Silicon Valley Chapter - Project Management Institute, description of talk by Katy Dickinson, December 14, 2006
• "Mentoring for Employee Development" National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Social Scientists picked SEED among Promising Practices as the Case Study in this report, 2006 (2 pages, PDF format)
• "Mentors can help women shatter glass ceiling - Senior colleagues can toot your horn, bringing you money and power" By Eve Tahmincioglu, MSNBC contributor, Nov 19, 2006 (there is a mentoring quote by me on the 2nd page)
• "20 ways to get promoted in the tech industry" By Dan Tynan, October 16, 2006, InfoWorld (SEED is part of "10. Find Your Yoda")
• "5 Years of Mentoring by the Numbers" 4-7 October 2006 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women and Computing, San Diego Program Schedule for GHC Session 1 - Thursday, October 5, 2006
  "5 Years of Executive Mentoring" TechLeaders - Building and Sustaining Change in Technology Cultures: Showcasing What Works (October 4, 2006, San Diego, CA)
• Information Week in Israel, 28 Feb 2006 (in Hebrew, with a photo)

• "Outsourcing is essential for survival of companies" (SEED is mentioned), interview with Crawford W Beveridge, Executive Vice President (People & Places) and Chief Human Resource Officer interview, Deccan Herald > Economy & Business > Detailed Story, April 11, 2005

• "Bit by Bit: Mentoring & Practical Approaches to Advancing Women in High Tech" Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing ("GHC 2004") Moderator: Katy Dickinson, Sun Microsystems, SEED Program (Sun Engineering Enrichment & Development) 7 October 2004
• Rhonda Holt (VP of Grid Engineering Program Office) interview, DiversitySearch - Up Close & Virtual Interviews, 2004 (mentions SEED)
• "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 10:45,
• "Nurturing a Culture of Innovation" Express Computer May 2004 article on SEED program and participants in India Engineering Center (IEC) in Bangalore
• "Sun Engineering Enrichment and Development Program Fosters Growth New Hires, Experienced Staff Work with Senior Staff Mentors" Paragon Pinnacles > Volume 73 > Issue 3 > Sun Features > (March 15, 2004, Article #12480, Volume 73, Issue 3)
• "Sun Engineering Enrichment and Development Program Fosters Growth - New Hires, Experienced Staff Work with Senior Staff Mentors" Sun System News, March 15, 2004, Article #12480, Volume 73, Issue 3
• "Tapping into the Knowledge Network" www.sun.com article on SEED, 18 Feb 2004 [was featured on both the www.sun.com and research.sun.com home pages]
• "Sun (SEED) program pairs college recruits with senior engineering mentors, 23 Feb 2004 link to "Tapping into the Knowledge Network" www.sun.com article from LSTN (Learning & Teaching Support Network for Engineering section on "UK & World Media News"- now called The Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre)
• "Mentoring and Being Mentored on the Technology Track" By Carla King, published on "developers.sun.com - The Source for Developers", 2003 [Now called Sun Developer Network or SDN]
• Bit by Bit: Catalyst's Guide to Advancing Women in High Tech Companies, SEED is the featured case study in the "Use Mentoring and Networks to Win" section (page 106), book published by Catalyst, 2003, ISBN 0-89584-243-2

Posted at 02:06PM Feb 15, 2007 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  |