BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20231110T151829Z UID:00C112ED-9D2C-43A2-B7B8-8E5BF2340399 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231106T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231106T203000 DESCRIPTION:This is a planning meeting for the Lehigh Valley WIE Affinity G roup. Interested Lehigh Valley Section WIE members or prospective members are welcome to attend.\n\nOfficer elections will also be held. All Lehigh Valley WIE members are eligible to be an officer. If you would like to hav e more involvement in our WIE Affinity Group\, and in working to support a nd grow the female engineering community\, please come to the meeting and volunteer!\n\nAgenda: \nMeeting Minutes of Lehigh Valley WIE meeting 11.6. 23\n\nAttendees: Bonnie Rohde\, Maria Cohen\, Christine Gerveshi\, Elizabe th Nelson\, CJ Sasso\n\n- Report by Bonnie and Chris on the value of atte nding the WIE Forum in Pittsburgh\, October 26-28\n- Opportunity to meet w ith R2 WIE group leaders and organizers\; WIE LV is apparently well known for being very active!\n- Excellent sessions and exhibits\n- Impressive pr esentations and panels by women making a difference in diverse careers\n- Ideas for future directions and collaborations with other R2 WIE groups\n\ n- Discussion of elections: WIE board will continue in their present role s. When the Section announces call for nominations in 2024\, we will do th e same.\n\n- Chris raised the topic of exploring an outreach project targ eted at middle school girls (such as Lego Challenge) which could encourage students to become involved with WIE. CJ Sasso talked about his past invo lvement with First Robotics at the high school level\, and his interest in being involved with similar programs with WIE.\n\n- CJ also mentioned a project with high schoolers to provide broadband access to underserved com munities. Bonnie also had experience with such projects at AT&T.\n\n- Gen eral goal to pin down ideas for meetings and talks in 2024.\n\nNext Meetin g: 12/04/23\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/380016 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/380016 ORGANIZER:christine.gerveshi@live.com SEQUENCE:27 SUMMARY:Lehigh Valley WIE Planning Meeting and Officer Elections 11/6/23 URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/380016 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>This is a planning meeting for the Lehigh Valley WIE Affinity Group. Interested Lehigh Valley Section WIE members or prospective members are welcome to attend.</p>\n<p>Officer elections will also be held. All Lehigh Valley WIE members are eligible to be an officer . If you would like to have more involvement in our WIE Affinity Group\, a nd in working to support and grow the female engineering community\, pleas e come to the meeting and volunteer!</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p><br /><br />Agenda : <br /><p><strong>Meeting Minutes of Lehigh Valley WIE meeting 11.6.23</s trong></p>\n<p><strong>Attendees: </strong>Bonnie Rohde\, Maria Cohen\, Ch ristine Gerveshi\, Elizabeth Nelson\, CJ Sasso</p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong> </s trong>Report by Bonnie and Chris on the value of attending the WIE Forum i n Pittsburgh\, October 26-28\n<ul>\n<li>Opportunity to meet with R2 WIE gr oup leaders and organizers\; WIE LV is apparently well known for being ver y active!</li>\n<li>Excellent sessions and exhibits</li>\n<li>Impressive p resentations and panels by women making a difference in diverse careers</l i>\n<li>Ideas for future directions and collaborations with other R2 WIE g roups</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ol>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<ol start="2">\n<li><stro ng> </strong>Discussion of elections: WIE board will continue in their pre sent roles. When the Section announces call for nominations in 2024\, we w ill do the same.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<ol start="3">\n<li><strong> </strong>Chris raised the topic of exploring an outreach project targeted at middle school girls (such as Lego Challenge) which could encourage stu dents to become involved with WIE. CJ Sasso talked about his past involvem ent with First Robotics at the high school level\, and his interest in bei ng involved with similar programs with WIE.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n< ol start="4">\n<li><strong> </strong>CJ also mentioned a project with high schoolers to provide broadband access to underserved communities. Bonnie also had experience with such projects at AT&amp\;T.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>&nbsp \;</p>\n<ol start="5">\n<li><strong> </strong>General goal to pin down ide as for meetings and talks in 2024.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong >Next Meeting: 12/04/23</strong></p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR