Making the Most of Mentoring: The 14th Annual Mentoring Conference

Thank you to all those who participated in the 14th Annual Mentoring Conference! From the attendees to the presenters, the mentee panelists to the Oracle facilities staff, everyone came together to make this year's conference a dynamic, educational, nurturing event.

Special thanks goes to all keynote presenters, including Ulrich Schmid-Maybach and Nicole Tung. Mr. Ulrich Schmid-Maybach spoke about the Maybach Foundation's mentoring program, which matches up promising young people with experts in various professions. Nicole Tung, a Maybach Foundation Mentee, spoke from Turkey about her experiences there as a photojournalist.

Keynote presenters Michael Karcher and David DuBois presented on their book, the 2nd edition of the Handbook of Youth Mentoring. Detained in Chicago because of a storm, DuBois joined via internet.

"We are so honored to be among such esteemed mentoring professionals here today," Friends for Youth Executive Director Becky Cooper said in her opening remarks. "It is all of you that give us hope for our children's futures."