© 2008 ibm corporation 2008/2009 ibm la grid student scholars program overview
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© 2008 IBM Corporation
2008/2009 IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program Overview
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Agenda
Overview of LA Grid Student Scholars Mentoring Calendar Internship/ Regular Placement (Guest Speaker: Antero Rivero) Additional Information About the Other Sub-Programs within LA Grid
Student Scholars– Technology
– Professional Development
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IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program
Objective:
Drive the development of computer scientists from underrepresented populations (emphasis on Hispanic) towards increasing the diversity in our workforce by significantly increasing the number and quality of touch points between select students and IBM.
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LA Grid ProgramWhat is LA Grid:
LA Grid, pronounced "lah grid," is an international multi-disciplinary research community “grid” and virtual computing grid enabling institutions and industry to extend beyond their individual reach and facilitate collaborative IT research, education and workforce development.
The LA Grid consortium consists of 10 Universities and two Super Computing centers across 4 countries collaborating with 4 IBM Research labs and numerous IBMers.
So far, some of LA Grid’s more recent accomplishments include:– $40+ million dollars, and counting, external research grants submitted with the first major
NSF grant now attained
– 45 IBM internships have been completed, 30 “scholars” have been mentored
– 240 Newspaper articles have appeared featuring LA Grid and IBM's leadership in the US, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Argentina
– 6 TV Feature stories on CNN en Espanol, Univision, US Networks and National Public Radio
– IBM Innovation that Matters' Campaign Feature
– 7 Shared University Research awarded.
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IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program
Program Definition “in a nutshell”
LA Grid Student Scholars is a unique program that offers opportunities to top Minority engineering/science talent students to develop their creative, collaborative, technical and professional skills.
Benefits:
Mentoring Opportunities with IBM Hispanic Executives and Professionals
Potential Research Opportunities
Potential Opportunities for Internship/Full-Time Employment with IBM
Access to a diverse set of seminars– Professional Development Workshops
– Technology
– Insights into Industry
Potential Opportunities for Invitations to Executive Roundtables and other leadership lectures
Networking opportunities with other students and professionals
High visibility with LA Grid Program and IBM
Polo-shirts (LA Grid - IBM Logo)
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LA Grid
LA Grid is a computing grid to link faculty, students, and researchers from institutions across the United States, Latin America and Spain. Aimed at preparing Hispanic students for careers in information technology and stimulating local economies.http://latinamericangrid.org/
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IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program
Major Initiatives/Teams
Overall Program management Mentoring Internship/Regular Placement Technology
– Seminars
– Competitions
– Curriculum Involvement
Professional Development
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IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program – Overall Program Management
“Overall Program Management” Team
Overall Program Leader– Heidi Lagares
Communications (Networking/Website Site, etc)– William Fernandez
Sub-Program Leadership Team– Sa’mine Jernigan – Mentoring
– David Gomez - Technology
– Hector Bird – Professional Development
– Antero Rivero – Internship/Regular Employment
Program Consultant– Jack Boyce
HR (Recruiting) Liaison– Raul Munoz
AI Liaison– Jeff Gibbs
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2008 IBM LA Grid Student Scholars ProgramMentoring
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IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program – Mentoring
Goals Ensure every student is provided the guidance to optimize their professional success
– Increase awareness– Provide insight– Provide tailoring, relevance– Focus on preparation– Ensure leverage
Increase excitement surrounding IBM; around innovation leadership, career and job opportunities
Optimize leverage of special opportunities, such as Extreme Blue, PhD Fellowship, etc. Gain greater understanding of challenges involved and address Develop a tight supportive relationship with Recruiting team Make a measurable difference!
Objective To actively encourage and engage every student in a mentoring “personalized” relationship
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IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program – Mentoring
“Mentoring” Team
Overall Program Leader– Sa’mine Jernigan
Section Leader– Melissa Betancourt
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IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program – Please be a Mentor
Goals For the Mentors To make a difference! This is an opportunity to make a difference with these students (some of
them have never done mentoring) Be fully committed to the mentoring relationship, making time and take the lead towards eventually
sharing ownership Offer career guidance and share successes and challenges. Explain the importance and excitement of technology careers in the minority groups Provide feedback and coaching Be a role model!!!
Commitment At least one communication per month (phone preferably – think “personal touch”) Be aware off, and communicate, key program messages and objectives (attend periodic team calls
and/or listen to replay) Provide brief documented feedback for each mentoring encounter Give overall program feedback to LA Grid Student Scholars Mentoring Lead
Mission We want to engage every student in a mentoring program. Some of them have never participated
in a mentoring program. Others might not be as committed. Therefore, we need to go the extra mile, and we want to make sure we can make it the best experience possible for them.
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IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program – Mentoring
General Hints and Tips for the Mentor/Protégé Relationship (cont.)
Provide constructive feedback.... specific, honest, and timely. Consider where you are, where you are going, and what you’ve accomplished. Be prepared to change directions if necessary and be sure to ask for any help if needed.
Both mentor and Protégé need to:
– Drive success and bring high enthusiasm
– Facilitate dialog and learning through various means
– Stick to a meeting schedule
Develop, update, and keep to the roadmap; it will add structure while discovering common ground through which to get to know each other
Record your meetings. Main points discussed ? Main issues/challenges encountered ? Feedback points provided ? Actions to be taken?
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2008 IBM LA Grid Student Scholars ProgramCalendar
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Upcoming Events!
Student Contest Kickoff – September 22nd Career Seminar (1st Non-Technical) – September 29th
Mentoring – End of September Interim-Competition run and results sent back to students – October
3rd 2nd Non-Technical Seminar October 27th
Recruiting – September/October (depending on the school)
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IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program – Program Calendar
August, 2008
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15-Send Facebook
Message – Welcome Back to
School
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17 18-Send Welcome Back Email (get
information about Summer Jobs)
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24 25 26 27 28 29 30
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KickOff IBM Team, Mentor Training, Mtg w/ Univ
Completed Draft of Student Scholars Plan
Finalize Student Scholars Plan
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IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program – Program Calendar
September, 2008
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12- Send Facebook Message to keep
students engaged
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14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30
Program Kickoff (students), Mentee training
Student Contest Kickoff
Sem: Eclipse/Java
Career seminar
Sem: internship/employment, Mentee Discussion (mentoring)
Univ of Miami – Campus Recruiting
FIU – Campus Recruiting UPRM – Campus Recruiting
FAU – Campus Presentation
Mentoring Pairing
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IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program – Program Calendar
October, 2008
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10- Send Facebook Message to keep
students engaged
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Send Polo Shirts, Sem: Cloud Computing, LA Grid Summit ?, Contest Winner Announce
Technical/Non-Technical seminarStudent Contest Completion, Non-Technical seminar
Sem: Web 2.0
Non-Technical Seminar
Interim-Competition run and results sent back to students
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IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program – Program Calendar
November, 2008
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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16 17 18 19 20 21- Send Facebook Message to wish
nice break
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23 24 25 26 27- Thanksgiving
28-Day Off @ IBM
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Non-Technical seminar
Checkpoint with Mentors/Mentees, Sem: SOA
Sem: Virtual Reality
SHPE Conference, USA Assistantship Announce
Univ of Miami – Campus Recruiting
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IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program – Program Calendar
December, 2008
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10- Send Xmas card/email
11 12Send Facebook
Message to close the year
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14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25- Xmas
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28 29 30 31-New Years
Student: End of the Year thanks, 2008 Questionnaire, insight to 2009
IBM Team: End of the Year thanks, 2008 Questionnaire, insight to 2009
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2008 LA Grid Student Scholars Program<Internship/Regular Placement>
Antero Rivero Sep. 17, 2008
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Internship/Regular Placement
Goals To ensure every student is provided the awareness and guidance to optimize
their success towards attaining an internship assignment or regular employment– Provide insight into application process and timing
– Increase the awareness of available job opportunities
– Provide mentoring and tailored guidance in internship opportunity selection
– Ensure leverage of all available recruiting programs, i.e. Extreme Blue, GEM Fellowships, etc.
Objective Actively encourage and support every student to pursue IBM internships and
eventual regular employment opportunities.
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Internship/Regular Placement
Plan Provide insight into application process and timing
– Attend Fall Career Fairs/Recruiting Events for Spring CO-OP and Summer Internships
– December grads need to be applying to Job Postings – NOW!
Increase the awareness of available job opportunities – Communicate ‘internships/regular job postings’ to all LA Grid students via ‘news flashes’,
Facebook, 1-on-1s
– Provided to all LA Grid students by ‘Internship/Regular Placement Team’ and ‘mentors’
Provide mentoring and tailored guidance in internship opportunity selection – Provided to all LA Grid students by ‘Internship/Regular Placement Team’ and ‘mentors’
Ensure leverage of all available recruiting programs– Optimize and leverage special opportunities, i.e. Extreme Blue, Project Views, GEM Fellowships
– ‘Internship/Regular Placement Team’ and ‘mentors’ working closely with IBM Recruiting teams to synchronize activities and tailor/individualize
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Internship/Regular Placement
Overall Internship/Regular Placement Team
Antero Rivero (Lead) Lanness Robinson *
Madeline Vega (UPRM)Vanessa Vazquez (UPRM)Evy Torrez (FIU)
Javier Torrez (FIU) * UM/FAU/UNF…TBD
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Additional Information About the Other Sub-Programs Within LA Grid Student Scholars
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2008 IBM LA Grid Student Scholars ProgramTechnology
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IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program – Technology
Plan Deliver a seminar series on the following themes
– Virtual Reality
– Cloud Computing
– Web 2.0
– SOA
– Innovation
Deliver student contest– Excellence, support, enthusiasm
– Celebrate success
– Provide “beta” for IBM/ACM international competition
Knowledge delivery to appropriate medium (succinct)– Avail for later recall
Ensure support is communicated to students directly and through mentoring/personalized channel Build excitement, provide criticality of material (Tie technology to relevancy) Identify/develop appropriate technical contacts within IBM Work with Academic Initiative team; synchronize activities, reinforce key messages and tailor/individualize Help conceptualize, develop and provide “concept beta” delivery for IBM/ACM international contest. Develop and employ mechanism for continuous improvement Assess progress via measurable objectives and measurements
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IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program – Technology
“Technology” Team
Overall Program Leader– David Gomez
Seminar Leaders– Mike Marin
– Werayuth (Tero) Charoenruengkit
Competition Leader– Servando Varela
– Mike Taylor– Robert Loredo
Program Consultant– Jack Boyce
AI Liaison– Jeff Gibbs
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2008 IBM LA Grid Student Scholars ProgramProfessional Development
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IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program – Professional Development
Plan Deliver a seminar series on the following themes
– Career Advancement
– Leadership
– Collaboration/Teaming
– Effective Communications Ensure support is communicated to students directly and through mentoring/personalized channel Work with HR Recruiting team; synchronize activities, reinforce key messages and customize Develop and employ mechanism for continuous improvement Assess progress via measurable objectives and metrics
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IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program – Professional Development
“Professional Development” Team
Overall Program Leader
– Hector Bird
Seminar Leaders
– Mircea Marandici
– Gary Pietrocarlo
HR Liaison
– Raul Munoz