<html><body><p>Hi,<br>I just wanted to send out a celebratory email because we've done our first set of matches for the mentoring program. We matched 33 mentors and mentees (so 66 people). Thank you so much to everyone who signed up! We still have more matches to make. We also have people signed up but waiting to make their match at our Speed Mentoring event at the Austin summit. This has been so much more successful than we ever imagined!<br><br>Special thanks to:<br>Danielle Lynch and Carol Barrett for their help making matches, sending emails and planning the program<br>Mike Perez, Erin Disney, and Claire Massey from the Foundation for all their help and support and feedback on the program <br>Marton Kiss who helped us coordinate between the mentoring program and Upstream University<br><br>Sincerely,<br>Emily Kate Hugenbruch<br>Software Engineer - z/VM<br>IBM Corporation Endicott, NY<br>Email: ekhugen@us.ibm.com<BR>
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