Month: January 2012

Last Friday we held our very first mentor support session.  We got great feedback from mentors about how they and their mentees are doing in the program so far.  With this feedback we hope to improve aspects of the program to make sure eMentroing is running efficiently as possible.  We also made sure that mentors were up to date about what is going on on our end.  We are planning to do future support sessions to further guide mentors and ensure communication stays strong between everyone involved! Because we are growing so fast with mentor applications coming in from other post secondary institutions such as SFU and UVIC, we are moving these mentor support sessions to an online, webinar format so that we can maximize attendance. A lot of these students have heavy schedules, so arranging day time meetings is often a huge challenge. By hosting webinars online during the evening, mentors can connect from anywhere! Just another smart way to use technology!

Happy 2012 from all of us at eMentoring!  The project has grown so much over the past year and we are eager to begin this year with a running start. The eMentoring version of icouldbe.org has officially gone live and both mentees and mentors have begun to create their accounts and establish relationships.  We are currently in the process of recruiting volunteers for our next intake.  If you are interested in becoming involved with eMentoing or know someone who would be download our mentor application under the Get Involved! tab.  This year is shaping up to be an exciting one.  We hope to learn and grown so much more over the course of this next year and to bring the project to a new level!