Katy Dickinson

SEED Matching Status

The SEED Engineering mentoring program here at Sun is currently matching two very senior terms: SEED-2 (for alumni SEED participants who wanted a subsequent mentoring partnership), and the Distinguished Engineer (DE) term. The DE term is for a group of newly promoted DEs to work with more experienced DEs.

7 of the new Distinguished Engineers have now been matched with DE-mentors. I have 4 more to match. 5 of the SEED-2 alumni participants have also been matched with mentors. 5 to go in that term. It is harder and takes longer to match very senior staff since they need to be paired with the most senior executives. I will continue to work on matching these terms while kicking off the application period for the SEED 4-Site Term (for Bangalore, Beijing, Prague, and St. Petersburg) this week from India.

Posted at 08:32AM Feb 25, 2007 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  | 

Pancake Supper, Budget, Mission Charter

This busy week in my church life started on Sunday with preparations for the Shrove Tuesday pancake supper and races. My daughter will be in college next year so she wanted to manage the event once more before she goes. John and Jessica made pancake batter early and left it in a 5 gallon bucket in the church kitchen refrigerator. (Of course, it expanded out of the bucket and made a mess but the pancakes made with the remaining batter tasted very good.)

Jessica then organized more than a dozen cooks, servers, and cleaners to put on the annual celebration held on the day before the start of Lent. I wrote about the 500+ year history of Pancake Races in my blog before. This year's event was also fun and a success. We asked people to donate what they thought the simple dinner was worth and collected over $241- to go toward the Youth Group's Mission Trip to work on cleaning up New Orleans.

Thursday, I attended the first meeting of the Diocese of El Camino Real 2008 budget committee. Saturday, I ran the meeting for the Department of Intercultural Evangelism and Mission (DIEM) of which I am the Convener. DIEM is changing its name and structure over this next year into the Department of Missions. So, in addition to planning our department's 2008 budget submission to support the 13 Central Coast missions, we also set up an additional meeting to work out the details of our new charter.

I think all is prepared for my working from India in the next few weeks. It will be interesting getting email on these local church activities while working in such a different place.

Posted at 08:24AM Feb 25, 2007 by katysblog in Church  |