Get career advice from an LGBT engineer or scientist!

Here is an opportunity for student NOGLSTP members studying science, mathematics or engineering. Get "real world" information, encouragement, advice, and access to professional networks from LBGT professionals working in your field.

Until now, MentorNet's One-on-One Mentoring Programs focused on matching women and underrepresented minorities with female or male professionals from all sectors as mentors for one-on-one, email-based mentoring (e-mentoring) relationships. Now, NOGLSTP members who are students, can join the program regardless of whether their university is a program participant, and be matched with LGBT mentors.

Choose from two types of mentoring programs:

1. the Industry E-Mentoring Program: for protégés interested in working in industry or at a government laboratory or agency
2. the Academic Career E-Mentoring Program: for graduate students, postdocs and untenured faculty pursuing faculty careers

The program has proven effective by providing "real world" information, encouragement, advice, and access to networks that are otherwise often unavailable to those underrepresented in the fields of engineering and science. This is why over 90% of participants would recommend MentorNet's e-mentoring programs to a friend or colleague.

How can you find a mentor?

1. If you are a NOGLSTP member, make sure your membership status is current. You can do this by examining the date code on your most recent newsletter label, or check with the NOGLSTP Office. If you are not a NOGLSTP member, you may join now online.
2. Request your personal noglstp.net email address from the NOGLSTP Office. This email address is our way of letting the MentorNet® people know you are a NOGLSTP member. So that we can confirm that you are a student, be sure to use your university email address when placing your request.
3. Register as a member of the MentorNet® community, using your @noglstp.net email address, and create a protégé or mentor profile. This may involve submitting references that will verify your student status.
4. Wait to be notified of a potential mentor match.
5. Review the profile of your potential mentor, and accept or decline the match. Please note: your matches will be based on the priorities and interest areas you indicate in your profile, not necessarily exclusively with LGBT people.

Since 1998, MentorNet has matched almost 15,000 protégés and mentors with strong results. We hope you will join them!

MentorNet’s sponsors include Alcoa Foundation, Argonne National Laboratory, AT&T Foundation, Bechtel Foundation, Cisco Systems, GE Global Research, Guidant Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corporation, Intel Foundation, Knight Ridder, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lockheed Martin Space Systems, National Science Foundation, Naval Research Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Schlumberger, S. D. Bechtel Foundation, and Symantec.

NOGLSTP is grateful to IBM Corporation, a Founding Sponsor of the NOGLSTP Mentoring Project.

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