Student Mentor Program
The
Student Mentor program is designed to give high school junior and senior girls
opportunities to learn from the experience of women within their chosen career
field. It also helps to develop
networking skills necessary for success in pursuing a career. The program helps provide young women with
information needed in making rational career choices. Our mentors provide knowledge about classes
to take now, schools to attend, scholarships available in certain fields,
contacts to make and many other things to help the girls better understand what
it takes. We will have guests from many
professions at our programs enabling the girls to learn things about many
careers that they may not have even been aware of. The purpose of the Mentor program is to
provide variety and information and resources to the girls in the program.
Our
Student Mentor program for this school year has begun. We have received applications from 18 junior
and senior high school girls. The
committee is in the process of working up the program for the year and
contacting women to participate in our programs. We have a great variety of career interests
to accommodate this year.
The
first program will be Monday, October 12.
We will have an orientation for the girls in the program and their
parents. Our speaker for that evening
will be Senator Gay Kernan. She will
represent the career choices of teacher and politician. The remainder of the programs will be the
second Monday of November, January, February and March. Each program will be at 7:00 pm at Trinity
Lutheran Church and will last approximately one hour. We welcome any of the LCWN members to attend.
The
Mentor Committee consists of Louise Hudson, Susan Brandon, Belinda Morris,
Cortney Whitley, Mikal Fonseca and Marisol Cardenas.