Notes from 52nd International STC Conference
Seattle, Washington, May 8-12, 2005

Bridging the Gap Between Inductry and Academe

Session Description: In this two-presentation session, the Orlando Chapter described several highly successful projects that have resulted from the partnership between the chapter and the technical communication program at the University of Central Florida: a formal mentoring program, two successful fund-raisers (one for the chapter and one for the AccessAbility SIG), an educational outreach initiative to Central Florida High Schools, a self-sustaining memorial college scholarship program, and a cooperative project between the chapter and UCF that developed several new public relations documents for the chapter. The presentation included a demonstration of the outstanding multimedia presentations developed by jointly by the chapter and UCF under an STC Special Opportunities grant.

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Successful Mentoring Relationship that Piloted a Successful Mentoring Program

Bonnie Spivey, MasTec, Inc.
Dan Voss, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control

Voss is the Communications manager for Tactical Missiles-Orlando in Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, a proposal and marketing communication expert, an STC Fellow, and a longstanding leader in educational outreach at the chapter level and disabilities advocacy at the international level. Spivey, a recent graduate of UCF, won the prestigious Melissa Pellegrin Memorial Scholarship while at UCF and has already won a top Public Relations award within STC for her efforts as Orlando Chapter publicity manager.

  

The Orlando Chapter-University of Central Florida Partnership:
A Win-Win-Win Scenario!

Gail Lippincott, PhD, RGL Solutions;
Jen Selix, UCF and Universal Studios

Lippincott is an STC Associate Fellow, incoming Orlando STC chapter president, and a highly respected and extensively published educator. Selix is a graduating senior at UCF and this year won one of three Distinguished Student Service Awards in all of STC.

  

• Notes are not available from this session because I was involved in the presentations. Links are provided below to the materials from this session, which are posted on the conference materials web site.
   
• Abstract for overall session
• Presentation slides for overall session
• Paper in Proceedings for Spivey/Voss presentation on mentoring
• Paper in Proceedings for Lippincott/Selix presentation on partnership between Orlando-STC and UCF


• Turnkey packages (both hard-copy and CDs) are available for chapters or SIGs who are interested in drawing upon the experience of the Orlando Chapter in developing similar programs. In addition to the initiatives described above, the turnkey packages also include material on the Gloria Jaffe Award for Excellence in Technical Communication, a successful professional recognition program initiated in 2002 by W.C. Wiese and the Orlando Chapter. For copies of the turnkey materials, contact Dan Voss.
• Some key links:
   
• Orlando Chapter mentoring program (formal program pairing professionals in the chapter with technical communication students at UCF)
• Gloria Jaffe Award (professional recognition program)
• Operation Rising Stars chapter fund-raiser (corporate and personal sponsorships)
• Operation Butterfly AccessAbility SIG fund-raiser (lapel pin sales); see pages 3 and 5 in the newsletter.
• Melissa Pellegrin Memorial Scholarship program.
• Orlando Chapter Education Committee