MentorNet is the award-winning nonprofit e-mentoring network that positively affects the retention and success of those in engineering, science and mathematics, particularly but not exclusively women and others underrepresented in these fields.

Founded in 1997, MentorNet provides highly motivated protégés from many of the world's top colleges and universities with positive, on-on-one, email-based mentoring relationships with mentors from industry, government, and higher education.  In addition, the MentorNet Community provides opportunities to connect with others from around the world who are interested in diversifying engineering and science.

MentorNet sponsors include: 3M Foundation, Alcoa Foundation, Agilent Technologies, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, AT&T, Bechtel Group Foundation, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corporation, Intel Foundation, Lockheed Martin Space Systems, National Science Foundation, Naval Research Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Schlumberger, S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, Texas Instruments, and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Read more or sign up to be a mentor at www.mentornet.net