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Mentor Profile

Heather Warketin
Mentor since: Oct 2003
Occupation: Medical Physicist at Cross Cancer Institute.
My greatest career influence: When I started at the Cross Cancer Institute just over 10 years ago, there was just one other female medical physicist working here. When she started she would have been considered a real pioneer in the field. She took me under her wing and showed me how to balance work and family life while still ... 

Becoming a Participant

Who can participate?

• Girls between the ages of 11 and 18 living in the province of Alberta.
• There is no cost to join the program - but you must make some commitments.

How do I join?

• Click on the "Join Cybermentor" link on the home page. Follow instructions to create an account.
• Check your email for an automatic message and click on the link to verify your email address.
• Follow the instructions to log into the website.
• Click on "Register as a participant". Fill all the registration pages, including your personal statement.
• Print out the Participant Agreement and Photo/Video/Testimonial Consent forms, sign them and mail or fax them into the contacts on the form. Without these you cannot participate!
• After you submit your online registration, check your email to make sure we have received it.
• Once we receive your mailed in forms and a complete online registration, you'll receive a welcome email  from the program office, a participant handbook, and we'll match you with a mentor.

What is Mentoring?

Mentoring is a one-to-one relationship between a more experienced mentor and someone less experienced. The relationship is based on encouragement, constructive comments, openness, mutual trust, respect, and a willingness to learn and share. With support from the program staff, a program handbook, materials on the program website and regular suggestions for discussion topics you will exchange regular messages with your program match. Take the initiative to suggest discussion topics, share personal experiences, pose questions, and engage in "small talk" until you both begin to feel comfortable and a discussion emerges.

Program participants benefit by being personally linked with a positive role model who provides encouragement, direction, educational advice and a window into university and/or professional life.