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http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog/date/20080127 Sunday January 27, 2008

PreSEED Applications Now Being Accepted

The PreSEED mentoring pilot program application web pages are now available for use. Application materials should be submitted as soon as possible. The application period will close on 3 February 2008 (at Midnight, Pacific Time), or as soon as 100 complete applications are received. A complete web-based application includes 3-parts: the form, resume, and Manager's letter. The information in the application must pass verification. The first fifty (50) complete and verified applicants will be accepted into the PreSEED pilot program. For more on PreSEED, see my 23 Jan 2008 blog entry.

It took me a while to get out this update. The San Francisco Bay Area is in the middle of a week-long rainstorm. Today, a branch went through the roof of our home internet provider's transmitter. I finally gave up on them and drove to Sun's Campbell drop in center.

PreSEED's four General Selection Criteria are:

    1. All Participants are in Engineering.
    2. Only regular Sun employees may participate.
    3. All annual performance ratings in the last 3 years must be "Sun Standard" (a 2) or better.
    4. Manager support is required.

PreSEED is a pilot of the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program. More information on SEED is available at http://research.sun.com/SEED/

Posted at 10:44PM Jan 27, 2008 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  | 

SAMA - St. Andrew's Medical Assistance

SAMA - St. Andrew's Medical Assistance - is an outreach program of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. Today, the SAMA committee had its second meeting in 2008 to prepare for the SAMA fundraising dinner (to be on Sunday, 13 April 2008 at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 13601 Saratoga Avenue, Saratoga, CA.) There will be Middle Eastern food and an auction. I am in charge of event publicity.

My first effort was to create the SAMA web page, now available at http://st-andrews-sama.org. As the newest member of the committee, I am still learning about the program's 14-year history of raising money for charitable medical programs in the Holy Land and Africa. Other SAMA committee members will send me photos, recipes, and text for the web site. For now, I put up the pictures I took at last month's Christian Palestinian craft sale. (The same photos I posted on my 4 Dec 2007 blog entry.) I am looking forward to working on the 13th April fundraising event and SAMA.

Posted at 10:02PM Jan 27, 2008 by katysblog in Church  |