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:20240131T181412Z UID:85E62CE0-A43D-4732-B184-34BE4AE7D3A0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240108T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240108T203000 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\nAgenda: \nMeeting Minutes of Lehigh Valley WIE m eeting 1.8.24\n\nAttendees: Bonnie Rohde\, Maria Cohen\, Christine Gervesh i\, CJ Sasso\, Jennifer Winikus\n\n- Approval of the December Minutes (pen ding)\n- Updates to Betty's 75th Anniversary of the Transistor event (pend ing)\n- Responses/Questions to proposal for Lego Challenge (August start) or Aerolab\n\n- What middle school(s) would you recommend we approach?\n- How many student/IEEE member volunteers will be needed? (class of 30 stude nts/2 volunteers)\n- How long will the program take? 2 hours/3 hours (set up and execution\, over 5 sessions)\n- Which group are we targeting? Eleme ntary or Middle School\n\n- How many middle school students or elementary school could participate?\n- How much funding is required?\n- Will we have a complete program to hand-off to volunteers or would the volunteers be p roviding input into the design of the program?\n\n** Take to Ex-com to det ermine if any program like this was tried in the past and its success with volunteers and middle-school/elementary students\, also to determine if I EEE student members are interested in volunteering to teach/support the pr ogram.\n\n- Did we meet our obligations to obtain the WIE Affinity group f unds? Christine\, do you know what our obligations are to meet funding ($2 00)? So many meetings\, so many talks\, anything else?\n- When and where w ill be our next Happy Hour Event? Recommend back to Lehigh Valley or is th ere another area we didn’t address?\n- Update on career panel opportunit y below\, for next Thursday- Lehigh University will host a career workshop on 18 (next Thursday) and invite several NSF (National Science Foundation ) career awardee to sharer their experience and suggestions. I asked Lifan g if LVS WIE could sponsor the event and stream it to our members and stud ents? She will inquire and let me know.\n\n- New items? Maria brought to t he group information about a summer camp for girls in the Lehigh Valley wh ere they are introduced to construction and engineering. She sent us a lin k https://www.letsbuildcamp.com/ She recommended this program for LVS WIE volunteers and student volunteers.\n\nBonnie mentioned a new initiative th at was recently published in the IEEE Educational Activities Newsletter – IEEE Receives Grant to Develop Lesson Plans on Semiconductors (IEEE Tr yEngineering)\n\nhttps://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-tryengineering-semiconduct or-lesson-plans?utm_source=ea&utm_medium=email20240107&utm_campaign=janmai ler_button\n\nThis also might be something LVS WIE might be interested in supporting.\n\nNext Meeting: 2/05/24\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.iee e.org/m/392600 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/392600 ORGANIZER:christine.gerveshi@live.com SEQUENCE:17 SUMMARY:Lehigh Valley WIE Planning Meeting 1/8/24 URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/392600 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>&nbsp\;</p><br /><br / >Agenda: <br /><p><strong>Meeting Minutes of Lehigh Valley WIE meeting 1.8 .24</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Attendees: </strong>Bonnie Rohde\, Maria Cohe n\, Christine Gerveshi\, CJ Sasso\, Jennifer Winikus</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Approv al of the December Minutes (pending)</li>\n<li>Updates to Betty's 75<sup>t h</sup>&nbsp\;Anniversary of the Transistor event (pending)</li>\n<li>Resp onses/Questions to proposal for Lego Challenge (August start) or Aerolab</ li>\n<ol>\n<li>What middle school(s) would you recommend we approach?</li> \n<li>How many student/IEEE member volunteers will be needed? (class of 30 students/2 volunteers)</li>\n<li>How long will the program take? 2 hours/ 3 hours (set up and execution\, over 5 sessions)</li>\n<li>Which group are we targeting?&nbsp\; Elementary or Middle School</li>\n</ol>\n</ol>\n<ol> \n<li>How many middle school students or elementary school could participa te?</li>\n<li>How much funding is required?</li>\n<li>Will we have a compl ete program to hand-off to volunteers or would the volunteers be providing input into the design of the program?</li>\n</ol>\n<p>** Take to Ex-com t o determine if any program like this was tried in the past and its success with volunteers and middle-school/elementary students\, also to determine if IEEE student members are interested in volunteering to teach/support t he program.</p>\n<ol start="4">\n<li>Did we meet our obligations to obtain the WIE Affinity group funds? Christine\, do you know what our obligation s are to meet funding ($200)?&nbsp\; So many meetings\, so many talks\, an ything else?</li>\n<li>When and where will be our next Happy Hour Event?&n bsp\; Recommend back to Lehigh Valley or is there another area we didn&rsq uo\;t address?</li>\n<li>Update on career panel opportunity below\, for ne xt Thursday- Lehigh University will host a career workshop on 18 (next Thu rsday) and invite several NSF (National Science Foundation) career awardee to sharer their experience and suggestions.&nbsp\; I asked Lifang if LVS WIE could sponsor the event and stream it to our members and students?&nbs p\; She will inquire and let me know.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol>\n<li>New items?&nb sp\; Maria brought to the group information about a summer camp for girls in the Lehigh Valley where they are introduced to construction and enginee ring.&nbsp\; She sent us a link <a href="https://www.letsbuildcamp.com/">h ttps://www.letsbuildcamp.com/</a>&nbsp\; She recommended this program for LVS WIE volunteers and student volunteers.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p >Bonnie mentioned a new initiative that was recently published in the IEEE Educational Activities Newsletter&nbsp\; &ndash\; IEEE Receives Grant to Develop Lesson Plans on Semiconductors (IEEE TryEngineering)</p>\n<p><a hr ef="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-tryengineering-semiconductor-lesson-pla ns?utm_source=ea&amp\;utm_medium=email20240107&amp\;utm_campaign=janmailer _button">https://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-tryengineering-semiconductor-lesso n-plans?utm_source=ea&amp\;utm_medium=email20240107&amp\;utm_campaign=janm ailer_button</a></p>\n<p>This also might be something LVS WIE might be int erested in supporting.</p>\n<p><strong>Next Meeting: 2/05/24</strong></p>\ n<p>&nbsp\;</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR