{"151381":{"#nid":"151381","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Female Students Invited to Free Online Mentoring Program","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech undergraduate women may now take advantage of a new online mentoring program called Women in Technology Sharing Online, or WitsOn. The program connects undergraduate women with female mentors across the country focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, but all female undergrads are invited to participate regardless of major.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWitsOn is a pilot program that will run for six weeks beginning Oct. 1. Tech is serving as a lead institution with sponsors \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/\u0022\u003EHarvey Mudd College\u003C\/a\u003E and Piazza, an online tool that enables conversation between students and faculty. Already 18 faculty members from Georgia Tech have signed up to participate as mentors, along with 120 other faculty from across the country. Mentors will come from industry and academia and speak from personal experience about issues relevant to the student participants.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach week, WitsOn will feature a lead mentor responding on video to questions posed by students. Other support mentors, of whom there are more than 15 from Tech, will then add their answers, and discussion among the mentors and students will continue via Piazza. The online mentorship will be for approximately an hour each week.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose interested in enrolling in the free mentoring course should visit \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/piazza.com\/witson-apply\u0022\u003Epiazza.com\/witson-apply\u003C\/a\u003E or contact a faculty member to be added by Monday, Sept. 10. To enroll a student, faculty can visit \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/piazza.com\/witson\u0022\u003Epiazza.com\/witson\u003C\/a\u003E and enter the requesting student\u2019s email address. Students enrolled by a faculty member will receive a notification that they have been added.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProgram connects undergraduate women with mentors across the country focused on STEM disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Program connects undergraduate women with mentors across the country focused on STEM disciplines."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2012-09-04 15:45:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:47","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-09-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-09-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"151391":{"id":"151391","type":"image","title":"WitsOn Logo","body":null,"created":"1449178848","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:40:48","changed":"1475894784","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:24","alt":"WitsOn Logo","file":{"fid":"195195","name":"screen_shot_2012-09-04_at_3.45.50_pm.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screen_shot_2012-09-04_at_3.45.50_pm_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screen_shot_2012-09-04_at_3.45.50_pm_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":19729,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/screen_shot_2012-09-04_at_3.45.50_pm_0.png?itok=5h1mC-gn"}}},"media_ids":["151391"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/piazza.com\/witson-apply","title":"Apply to WitsOn"},{"url":"https:\/\/piazza.com\/witson","title":"About WitsOn"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"42361","name":"harvey mudd college"},{"id":"4372","name":"mentoring"},{"id":"42371","name":"online mentoring"},{"id":"24451","name":"piazza"},{"id":"167487","name":"STEM education"},{"id":"167058","name":"Student"},{"id":"42341","name":"witson"},{"id":"42381","name":"women in technology share online"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:carol.colatrella@lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECarol Colatrella\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELiterature, Media and Communication\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}