2008/2009 IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program Overview - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

2008/2009 IBM LA Grid Student Scholars Program Overview

• 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

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.

What 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.

Program Definition “in a nutshell”LA GridStudent 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)

LA Grid

LA Gridis 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/

Major Initiatives/Teams

• Overall Program management
• Mentoring
• Internship/Regular Placement
• Technology
• Seminars
• Competitions
• Curriculum Involvement
• Professional Development

“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

2008 IBM LA Grid Student Scholars ProgramMentoring

Objective

• To actively encourage and engage every student in a mentoring “personalized” relationship

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!

“Mentoring” Team

• Overall Program Leader
• Sa’mine Jernigan
• Section Leader
• Melissa Betancourt

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.

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

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?

2008 IBM LA Grid Student Scholars ProgramCalendar

• 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)

Completed Draft of Student Scholars Plan

Finalize Student Scholars Plan

KickOff IBM Team, Mentor Training, Mtg w/ Univ

Program Kickoff (students), Mentee training

FAU – Campus

Presentation

Sem: internship/employment, Mentee Discussion (mentoring)

Univ of Miami – Campus Recruiting

Student Contest Kickoff

Mentoring Pairing

UPRM – Campus Recruiting

FIU – Campus Recruiting

Sem: Eclipse/Java

Career seminar

• Interim-Competition run and results sent back to students

Sem: Web 2.0

Student Contest Completion, Non-Technical seminar

Technical/Non-Technical seminar

Send Polo Shirts, Sem: Cloud Computing, LA Grid Summit ?, Contest Winner Announce

Non-Technical Seminar

Checkpoint with Mentors/Mentees, Sem: SOA

Univ of Miami – Campus Recruiting

Non-Technical seminar

SHPE Conference, USA Assistantship Announce

Sem: Virtual Reality

Student: End of the Year thanks, 2008 Questionnaire, insight to 2009

IBM Team: End of the Year thanks, 2008 Questionnaire, insight to 2009

2008 LA Grid Student Scholars Program<Internship/Regular Placement>Antero Rivero Sep. 17, 2008

Objective

• Actively encourage and support every student to pursue IBM internships and eventual regular employment opportunities.

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.

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

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

2008 IBM LA Grid Student Scholars ProgramTechnology

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

“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

2008 IBM LA Grid Student Scholars ProgramProfessional 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

“Professional Development” Team

• Overall Program Leader
• Hector Bird
• Seminar Leaders
• Mircea Marandici
• Gary Pietrocarlo
• HR Liaison
• Raul Munoz