Mentorship

CSC Mentorship Program

As of Fall'13, m4burns, nguenthe, and others are interested in starting a low-overhead CSC mentorship program.

This is currently in the planning stages, more to come as it rolls out.

Issues

Many of the other mentorship programs have some sort of ethics code. We (being m4 and nick) want to minimize bureaucracy, but will need some way to chastise or get rid of bad mentors that's better than just pulling the rug out from under them and their mentees. Perhaps

Competition

There are other mentorship programs floating around campus. We might both learn from or overlap awkwardly with them. Below is meant to be a full list, but may be missing entries:

Program	URL	Notes	Status
WiCS	https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/wics/mentoring	For women only. For pairing upper years with first years only. Onerous monthly written reports from 'all' participants, intimidating (but perhaps necessary) ethics code	?? (does anyone know how much traction they have?)
Women in Engineering	https://uwaterloo.ca/women-in-engineering/mentorship-program	Lots of warm-fuzzy soft-skills advice. Not much detail on their site about what they actually do. Onerity: low?	Seems active: they host workshop events https://uwaterloo.ca/women-in-engineering/events
AskEngAlumni	https://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/askanengalumni/	For engineers	Seems dead?
DDC	http://www.ddclub.uwaterloo.ca/admissions/mentorship.php	For double-degree students. Similar in scope to CSC-mentorship.	???????
GSoC	https://developers.google.com/open-source/organizations	What does GSoC do? How do they handle churn and dropouts and ethics?	Very popular and busy and big and 'funded'.
ActSci Club	http://asclub.uwaterloo.ca/	They don't have a mentorship program, they have mentorship events where the first n (n~=20) frosh that sign up get to have a mock interview by the senior asclub members, and then they all drink bubble tea	Busy!