CONNECTIONS COUNT
E-MENTORING PROGRAM
The Connections Count
Program builds positive mentoring relationships with students. Provides guidance
to students on how to focus on the tools they need to successfully achieve
their academic and career goals. Develops students' personal and academic
skills, enriches students' cultural awareness, and helps students make education
and career-related choices.
PARTNERSHIPS
The Interdistict Downtown
School is the point of origin for this outstanding program. The following
corporation sponsors encourage and support thier employees to serve as mentors.
- McKinsey & Co
- 3M
- Deluxe
- Hennepin County
- Target Co.
Connections Count 2002
Highlights
We are extremely
excited about Connections Counts program. In one short year, the program has
grown 100%. In 2002 there were two corporate sponsors, forty students and
forty mentors exchanging emails on a weekly basis. Now in 2003, there are
eighty mentors eighty students interacting through Connections Count.
During the first face-to-face
session students and mentors have lunch at the Interdistrict Downtown school
and the second session the students visited their mentors at work for lunch
and are invited to go on tours so they can learn about the various work environments.
Special thanks to Shondria Cullers, Anne Gomez, Mary Macaulay, Pat Nelson
and Stanley Brown for their hard work making this a very successful program.
Additional thanks to Kari Klemish for having the insight to involve the MMO
Board.
