Outreach Upcoming Events and Resources

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One of SWE’s major missions is to inspire the next generation of engineers by sharing our experiences and telling students what being an engineer is all about. Below are a few ways that you can get involved in that mission!

  • We are in the starting phases of planning for our fall Design Your World Event. Stay tuned to your email and our website for upcoming announcements and a call for volunteers!
  • On Tuesday, September 26, from 8am to 2pm, Ten80 Education is hosting a STEM Innovation Experience for high school students in Plano. They are looking for volunteers to help out and engage the students in conversations. View their flyer for more information on what they’re looking for and how to sign up!
  • Not a K-12 Outreach event, but we enjoy great relationships with our local Collegiate SWEsters and love to interact with their members! The UTA SWE section is looking for professionals to participate in a panel discussion Thursday, October 19th from 7pm-9pm at the Maverick Activities Center (MAC). If you’re interested in joining, please email UTA SWE President Mihika Naik directly.
  • On Friday, October 20th at 4:30pm, the SWENext club at Frisco High School will be building their first project, a T-shirt cannon, and are looking for mentors/volunteers to help! If you are interested in being a part of this project, please contact Kate Van Dellen directly.
  • Check out our Outreach resource page and sign up to participate in other services that connect passionate STEM Outreach volunteers with schools, events, and students in need of inspiration from speakers and mentors such as yourself. We don’t want to reinvent the wheel and create our own connection service, so these resources are your direct path to your local communities. Join in the fun!
  • When you represent SWE at an Outreach event, even if it wasn’t planned by us, submit the event information to SWE’s Outreach Metrics Tool. It’s a simple survey that takes about 5 minutes and lets SWE HQ know how you’re contributing to our mission to Aspire, Advance, Achieve!

WE17 Conference Reminders

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As September comes to a close, get ready for a very busy October for Dallas SWE! One of our major upcoming events is the WE17 Conference in Austin October 26-28. Check out our informational post about it. If you are attending and would like to carpool and / or share a hotel room to reduce costs, please fill out our WE17 Coordination Survey as soon as possible and we’ll try our best to connect folks. Don’t forget to select whether you’d like to be included in our GroupMe app communications before and during the conference! Email us at  dallas.swe@gmail.com if you have questions. We can’t wait to see you there!

Grapefest Social Event – Sept 15

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A very fun event is coming up this weekend that you don’t want to miss! Join us for an informal SWE social event this Friday, September 15th at 7PM in Grapevine for Grapefest. General admission is $8 which can be purchased online or at the event.

https://www.grapevinetexasusa.com/grapefest/

Let us know that you’re coming! Reach our VP of Membership, Amanda Posadas at (214) 458-6220 or our Membership committee chair, Shannon Cruise at (440)364-3432. We’ll be at the Wine Stomping area at Main St. and Wall St.

Additional information: if you want to go earlier than 7PM, just know that entrance before 5PM is free!

Sept 19 Professional Development Meeting – Sheri Jenkinson

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Join us for our first Professional Development meeting of FY18! The topic will be:

Is Solving for Gender Diversity the Answer to a Larger Economic Challenge?

When: Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 5:30-7:30 PM
We’ll start with a half hour of networking and ordering food (available for purchase by the individual), then a few SWE announcements, and finally a presentation by our guest speaker Sheri Jenkinson! This meeting is open to all (men and women, SWE members and non-members alike), and children are also welcome (at your discretion, child care is not provided).
Where: Coffee House Cafe, 6150 Frankford Rd, Dallas, TX 75252

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Speaker Profile: Sheri Jenkinson

Sheri Jenkinson is a Catalyst for Culture Change, an Activator of Big Ideas and a Champion for Equity through Technology. She is the Founder and CEO of WATT (Women Advancing Technology Together) International. Her entrepreneurial journey began with a goal of addressing engagement, resilience and interdependence challenges in corporate culture. This led her to become a coach and an organizational change management consultant. Her recent research findings around gender diversity and the gaps in workforce capacity and skill sets are now taking her down the path of organizational design, team optimization and development of sustainable cultures.

Prior to founding WATT, Sheri played key roles in developing innovative technologies, creating profitable business strategies and building key relationships with C-level partners and customers for large corporations and startups, including Verizon, VeriSign, Capgemini and River Logic. The networks and applications that she has worked with have changed our everyday lives as consumers, including digital telephony, mobile gaming & commerce, and interactive TV.

Sheri earned her ACC coaching credentials through the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She is on the Board of the DFW American Marketing Association, leading the CMO Advisory Council and has a B.S. in Business Logistics from Penn State and an M.B.A. in International Marketing from the University of Dallas.

This past January, she was privileged to travel to Bangladesh to help bridge the Digital and Cultural Divide by starting a new computer lab at the local elementary school, which included internet connectivity for the entire village.

North Texas Giving Day – Sept 14

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For the past several years, Dallas SWE has participated in North Texas Giving Day and raised nearly $3,000! Those donations help us fund high school senior scholarships, collegiate SWE leader scholarships, and our award-winning outreach event series, Design Your World STEM Conference for Girls, held twice a year since 2012. THANK YOU to our past donors!

Dallas SWE also holds monthly professional development events for women engineers in our area, supports multiple outreach events hosted by local museums and schools, and develops mentoring relationships with collegiates at UT Dallas, SMU, UNT, and Collin College. We’re very excited to continue these programs but we want to do more! We are an all-volunteer 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization so your donation is tax deductible.

Mark your calendars and please consider donating to Dallas SWE for North Texas Giving Day!

Thank you for your support!

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