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Tuesday December 09, 2008

SEED and PreSEED Matching Update

We are six days into the SEED mentor matching cycle for the January-June 2009 terms. So far, 18 program participants are matched. The remaining 91 are under consideration by potential mentors from their Mentor Wish Lists. I have already heard some response ("Yes", "No", or "I am Thinking About It") from 63 potential mentors. I just sent out 46 "Last Call" emails to the potential mentors who did not reply - telling them that they just have a day or two until their week of consideration is over and I go on to the next potentially available mentor. As usual, the "Last Call" emails generated a large number of responses of one kind or another. My December email file for SEED already has 681 emails in it.

This early in the cycle, almost all of the matches are for mentors who were #1 or #2 in priority on the 10-name Mentor Wish Lists. However, I have already had to reach down to #6 or lower for some as-yet-unmatched participants. Despite all of the information available, some participants were confused. There were many lists which included names of mentors who are too junior or too senior to serve, or who are known to be unavailable. I skip those names when looking for the next highest priority potentially available mentor on a list.

As usual, Sun's senior executives are being very generous with their time, often accepting a second mentee or queuing up their next mentee to start right after they finish working with their mentee whose term ends in March 2009. It is an honor and a pleasure to work with such a big hearted group of talented people.

More?
More information on the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program is available at http://research.sun.com/SEED/

Posted at 03:36PM Dec 09, 2008 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business |

Neon Jesus and Other Interpretations

While Christmas shopping in the San Francisco Bay Area in recent weeks, I have noticed that representations of Jesus are even more popular than usual. Some are serious, some are silly, some are very strange. All were in regular stores mixed in with non-religious items. The first picture in my collection is Neon Jesus. It is taken from a children's illustrated Bible dated 1962 that I bought from a used book sale for the SMUM Studio 17 (Santa Maria Urban Ministry) book shelf. Jesus' Neon-yellow hair in the illustrations is unique and memorable, if probably unrealistic for someone born in Israel two thousand years ago. That book started me noticing...

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Neon-yellow hair Jesus
Neon-yellow hair Jesus from a children's illustrated Bible dated 1962
photo: copyright 2008 Katy Dickinson