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The SOT Career Advancement, Mentoring, and Networking (CAMAN) Committee is offering a webinar “Applying SOT Mentorship Tools for Regional Chapter Meetings” June 25 at 1:00 pm (US EDT, UTC -4) to focus on tools that facilitate mentoring. Although centered on SOT Regional Chapter activities, anyone interested in strengthening mentoring is invited to participate.
SOT has 18 Regional Chapters that span across the United States. Regional Chapters are a great resource for toxicologists and related communities to stay connected on a local level, engaging in regional topics of interest, highlighting outstanding local science, and helping members to expand their professional networks. Regional Chapters often have an annual meeting that is developed and hosted by their Executive Committee, and these meetings offer an opportunity to connect with students, trainees, and career scientists on a smaller scale than the SOT Annual Meeting and typically without a major travel burden. As such, the Regional Chapter annual meetings are uniquely positioned to have flexibility in building mentoring programs to facilitate connection for those interested in participating at any stage in their careers. Likewise, Regional Chapter meetings also draw in local scientists who may not regularly attend the SOT meeting, diversifying opportunities to connect with toxicologists.
The goals of this webinar are to:
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Introduce and demonstrate tools available through SOT that can be leveraged to help in building mentoring relationships at all career levels. Share resources available that can be implemented across Regional Chapters (e.g., Mentor Match).
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Highlight successful networking events within Regional Chapters used to connect individuals that wish to build a mentoring relationship. Regional Chapters hold successful networking events and mentorship programs.
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Share ideas to overcome challenges faced by Regional Chapters in the facilitation of mentorship (e.g., cost effective tools, how to connect in a Regional Chapter that is large geographically).
The webinar will be moderated by CAMAN members Gina Hilton and Courtney McGinnis. Panelists include Kari Sant (CAMAN), AtLee Watson (North Carolina Regional Chapter), Natalie Johnson (Lone Star Regional Chapter), and Joshua Gray (Northeast Regional Chapter). Each will provide examples of their Regional Chapter activities and provide their perspective about deepening interactions to create mentoring relationships.
Ultimately, we hope that this webinar will provide ideas about the types of Regional Chapter mentoring programs currently being done around SOT, as well as new strategies for developing successful or improved Regional Chapter mentoring programs.
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