eWeek – Call For Guest Speakers – Sponsored by South Ohio SWE
Date: Feb 19th –25th
Location: Local high schools in the Cincinnati & Dayton Area
Details: We are looking for a few good engineers to provide an interactive, educational PowerPoint presentation to share an example of your career field or industry in engineering at a local high school. We have some of last year’s presentations to reference. Volunteer today!
GC AWIS High School Mentoring Event
Date: Tuesday Jan 31st
Time: 6:00-8:30 pm
Location: Seton High School, Glenway Ave. Western Hills (others schools will be invited too)
Details: Need volunteers to introduce high school students to a variety of careers in science, technology, engineering & math (STEM). The Greater Cincinnati Association of Women in Science (GC AWIS) are looking for your help to recruit women in various science positions. These are the careers that the high school ladies have indicated they are interested, but if you know of someone that has a particularly interesting job that is not listed below it would still be good to invite them for increased exposure to careers the high schoolers didn’t even know existed. The women we want to recruit to be part of this will not have to give a talk, instead they will quickly introduce their career and then sit at a table where students can stop by and ask them questions about their jobs one on one. You don’t have to have a PhD to participate.
- Engineering (mechanical, chemical, civil, electrical)
- Computer Science (IT)
- Doctor (pediatrician, orthopedic)
- Zoologist
- Nutritionist
- Forensics
- Sports Medicine
- Radiology and Nursing
If you are interested or know of someone who may be interested, please contact:
Olivia Schneider (AWIS) strickerolivia@gmail.com - main contact or
Kathy Huschart (Seton) huschartk@setoncincinnati.org
Project Lead the Way
Date: Thursday Feb 2nd
Time: 6:30-8 pm
Location: Winton Woods High school
Details: Need 3-4 women female engineers available to talk a little about what its like being in the field (panel-type discussion and then breaking into smaller groups) to high school girls who are currently enrolled in the engineering program and girls who are interested in the engineering to join us.
Some topics include
1. career choices
2. what is college like
3. what its like working in the field
4. reps sharing some of their neat experiences (cool projects, traveling, etc)
5. managing family (girls think about marriage and babies a lot sooner than boys)
If you are interest in volunteering please click here
Questions? Contact our Outreach Coordinator – Natalie Carne southohio.swe.outreach@gmail.com.
Future Cities Competition – Judges Needed
Date: Friday Feb 3rd
Location: Judge from your home or office
Details: 33,000 students in grades 6th, 7th, and 8th work in teams with their engineer mentor and educator to imagine, design, and build cities of the future. Along the way, they learn about engineering, develop their writing and public speaking skills, and apply math and science to real world issues. Judging will take a few hours depending on what event you sign up for. You will have 7 days to complete judging. You will be provided you assessment tools (called rubrics) and electronic score sheets
Volunteer Today!
Contact Bill Knight, National Program Manager at bknight@futurecity.org
Girl Scout Aerospace Badge Workshop – Hosted by South Ohio SWE and University of Dayton
Date: Saturday Feb 11th
Time: 9am – 2pm
Location: University of Dayton, McGinnis Center
Details: Need for volunteers to help run the workshop and mentor the girl scouts. Workshop format is similar to last year. The open session will include paper airplanes, parachutes, kites, and space station and rover construction (K’Nex). Group sessions include “things that fly,” “women astronauts,” “aviation history,” and “living in space.” Everything is hands-on and fun, and all of you are qualified to help with any of it.
If you can donate time and talent, materials, and/or ideas, please contact Mary Kinsella at Mary.Kinsella@wpafb.af.mil
University of Dayton Speed Mentoring – Sponsored by South Ohio and University of Dayton SWE
Date: Wednesday Feb 8th
Time: 6-8pm
Location: University of Dayton
Who Can Attend: All Collegiate sections of South Ohio SWE & local professionals – you need not be a SWE member to mentor.
Details: Back by popular demand. There will be pizza and soda to kick-off the evening. Don’t forget to bring your business cards! Participants will be provided a business card book to facilitate future networking.
Questions? Please contact Stephanie Salas-Snyder at southohio.swe.vp@gmail.com
FIRST Tech Challenge Ohio Championship (high school)
Date: Saturday Feb 18th
Time: Competition starts at 7:30 am
Location: iSpace – Scarlet Oaks Campus
(3254 E. Kemper Road, Sharonville, OH 45241)
Details: FTC is designed for those who want to compete head-to-head using a sports model. Teams of up to 10 students are responsible for designing, building, and programming their robots to compete in an alliance format against other teams. The robot kit is reusable from year-to-year and is programmed using a variety of languages. Teams including coaches, mentors and volunteers, are required to develop strategies and build robots based on sound engineering principles. Awards are given for the competition as well as for community outreach, design, and other real-world accomplishments.
For more details: http://ispacescience.org/programs/first-robotics/first-tech-challenge/
UC Science & Engineering Expo
Date: March 10th
Location: University of Cincinnati, Tangeman University Center
Details: The 8th Annual Southwest Ohio District Science and Engineering competition at UC is open to students in grades 6-12 in Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, Preble, and Warren counties. UC is searching for individuals with a bachelor’s degree (or higher) in a science or engineering related field (or with equivalent experience employed in a science or engineering related field) to donate their time as a judge for this year’s science fair.
South Ohio SWE sponsors a special awards and will be providing two judges for that award. Additional judges are needed. Please see recruitment flier below.
SEE 2012 Judge Recruitment Letter
Please register at: https://www.uc.edu/ScienceFair/registration/JudgeRegistration.aspx
If you have any questions about volunteering for this event, please contact Emily Stimpert or Keara Sherman at 513-556-4267 or emily.stimpert@uc.edu or keara.sherman@uc.edu
Destination Imagination – Need Appraisers
Date: Saturday March 17th
Location: Dayton OH
Details: It is a worldwide competition for kids of all school ages. They compete in challenges that incorporate the theater arts, science, and engineering. John Hole Elementary has five teams competing this year. John Hole is in Region 12 which encompasses Montgomery and Preble Counties. Each team is responsible for providing an appraiser for the tournament. This is a person who would be present during the competition and help judge teams. Our teams are struggling to find appraisers and are in danger of not being allowed to compete if we do not find three. They can be high school or college aged as well as any adult.
An appraiser does not represent any one school or team. Teams are just responsible for helping to recruit appraisers. The tournament has many participants, taking over much of Sinclair. So, additional appraisers and volunteers are most welcome. There is a half-day training on March 3rd and then the tournament is all day March 17th.
Questions? Please contact Elisabeth Rothschild at erothschild@zoomtown.com
Dayton Leadership Academy – Women In Engineering Day – Sponsored by South Ohio SWE
Date: Friday, March 30th
Time: 8:30 – 11:30 am
Location: Dayton Leadership Academy – Dayton View Campus
1416 West Riverview Ave
Dayton, OH 45402
Details: Need 3-4 volunteers to run workshop. The Dayton Leadership Academy is a charter school in the Dayton area. These children need our help to understand how important their education is and how it will apply to their future. Many of these kids need our support because they often don’t get it at home. We hope you will donate your time to enlightening the future of a few young ladies interested in engineering.
Please consider volunteering some of your morning to demonstrate to some 5th -8th grade girls what engineering is all about. We will have a short presentation about what engineering is and then have some hands-on activities. In just a couple of hours, we have the opportunity to show these young ladies why math and science are important to their futures.
Please contact Stephanie Salas-Snyder at southohio.swe.vp@gmail.com if you would like to help out.
Queen City FIRST Robotic Competition Challenge
Date: Apr 5th – 7th
Location: Xavier University, Cintas Center
Details: The FIRST mission is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership. Need volunteers to help/mentor teams (15 teams in CIN/NKY area), volunteers on event weekend for the High School Robotic Competition Challenge and especially need female mentors for the program.
To get involved please contact: Jimmy Nichols at jnichols@usfirst.
If you have any questions, comments, or ideas for more outreach activities, please contact our Outreach Coordinator at southohio.swe.outreach@gmail.com
Recent Outreach Events – Thanks to all our volunteers!
FIRST LEGO LEAGUE (FLL) & Jr. FLL Expo
Date: Saturday Jan 21st
Time: Competition runs 11:30 – 4 pm
Location: iSpace – Scarlet Oaks Campus
(3254 E. Kemper Road, Sharonville, OH 45241)
Details: Area elementary and junior high school students will demonstrate their science knowledge and engineering technology skills soon at the FIRST LEGO League district competition and Junior FIRST LEGO League expo, held by iSPACE at Scarlet Oaks Career Campus in Sharonville. Twenty-one FLL teams of students affiliated with Ohio public, private and home schools as well as scout troops and community teams will gather. These teams were invited to the district tournament as a result of their performance at area regional tournaments held this past November and December.
iSpace Robo-Soccer Challenge
Date: Sunday, August 7
Location: Florence Freedom Baseball
Time: 5:05 gates open; First pitch at 6:05
Who may attend: Everyone who wants to support iSpace
Join iSpace as a robot sends out the first pitch of the Florence Freedom game. You and a friend can also team up with a robot and play Robo-Soccer using remote controlled robots. Game tickets are $10 with $5 going to the iSpace program, to play Robo-Soccer tickets are $10 ($5 per person). The event is kid friendly. See iSpace fundraiser flier for more details!
University of Dayton Women in Engineering Summer Camp – Day with Industry
The University of Dayton, School of Engineering will be hosting several evenings of Dinner with an Engineer for the different engineering camps offered throughout the summer. There is no cost for you to attend any of the dinners.
South Ohio SWE has always participated in the Women in Engineering Summer Camp, Dinner with an Engineer, but the Pre-Engineering Summer Camp professionals participation is low, so please volunteer an evening of your time to have dinner with these young students. Participation in any of the camps is appreciated!
To see a description of each of the camps offered, the dates for the dinners, and to RSVP for one or more of the dinners, please go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/UDengineering_summerprograms
Descriptions for each of the camps will be listed first:
Minority Engineering and Technology Enrichment Camp for Young Men
Pre-engineering Summer Camp (Males and Females)
Women in Engineering Summer Camp for High School Girls
Summer Honors Experience Engineering Camp (Males and Females)
The Minority STEM Summer Bridge Program (Males and Females)
If you have any questions, please contact Annette Packard from the University of Dayton via email at apackard@udayton.edu.
