iMentor Builds Digital and Personal Bonds Between Students and Role Models

Great story on Thirteen's MetroFocus about the iMentor program and, specifically, how it works with the Academy for Software Engineering, where I also serve as a mentor in the iMentor program.

Here is a video from the show about iMentor at AFSE:



Here is another video with the interview with iMentor CEO, Mike O'Brien:



Incidentally, iMentor was also mentioned in the slideshow accompanying President Obama's State of the Union address earlier this week:

Become a Mentor | iMentor

This is a great program mentoring high school kids. I participate in it and have had a great experience (and I also have a great mentee too!)

iMentor is specifically looking for 300 more male mentors (mentor pairings are same gender) and they start matching their students with their new mentors in two weeks so please volunteer. As I said, I'm in the program myself and in addition to being a great program with a great mission, the support from iMentor and the school makes it very easy to focus on mentoring while iMentor handles the logistical and administrative details.

iMentor Volunteers Mentor the Next Generation of Software Engineers at the Academy for Software Engineering | iMentor

A great blog post about an awesome new public high school in New York City and a fantastic mentoring program working with that school. (Full disclosure: I am one of the iMentor mentors assigned to this school.)

Become a Mentor | iMentor

I recently signed up to serve as a mentor through an organization called iMentor.

Mentors are partnered with a New York City high school student in the program. At this time they are urgently looking for 200 more men to join (mentors and mentees are partnered by gender.) If you're interested, please sign up at iMentor.org and help make a difference in a kid's life.

Thanks!