BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251210T193049Z UID:FA38EE2F-4210-4D8B-8B5B-25BCE906CCB2 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T081500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T140000 DESCRIPTION:Join us in inspiring future generations of engineers! Do you re member when you first decided that you wanted to be an engineer? Something that you saw or something that you heard about captured your imagination and changed your life. Now\, you’ve got the chance to help 11\,000 eight h grade students in the Greater Richmond Area and beyond experience the sa me thing. On October 21st through October 23rd\, the IEEE Richmond Section will be participating in the [Mission Tomorrow](https://www.chamberrva.co m/mission-tomorrow/) career exploration event sponsored by ChamberRVA and Junior Achievement of Central VA. Eighth graders from 11 public school sys tems in the the cental part of Virginia will be attending this event to “try on” a wide range of careers. This will be a very fast paced event with new groups of hundreds of students arriving every 15 minutes. This is the largest STEM Outreach event that the IEEE Richmond Section has ever undertaken. Whether you are an IEEE Student Member\, Member\, Senior Memb er\, or Life Member\, we need your input and assistance with this opportun ity to help ignite the spark for the scientists and engineers who will fol low in our footsteps. There are two main things that we need help with:\n\ n- We need to plan a variety of highly interactive and engaging activities that the students can participate in. The activities need to give student s a glimpse of what types of things people in our fields do and the activi ties need to be very quick. Each group of students will make their way thr ough six exhibition halls with 15-20 companies in each exhibition hall. Ea ch group of students will only spend 15 minutes in each exhibition hall\, so we will need to grab their attention very quickly.\n- On the days of th e event\, we will need volunteers to staff the event. Each day’s event l asts 4 ½ hours\, and we will need at least two volunteers on-site at all times. Right now\, we are just trying to determine who might be interested in helping with this part because we do not yet know exactly what hours w e will need to be on-site. It will depend upon which exhibit hall we get a ssigned to. The first exhibit hall’s hours will be from 8:15 AM until 12 :45 PM and the last exhibit hall’s hours will be from 9:30 AM until 2:00 PM. You do not have to be there the entire time\, so even if you can only spare an hour or two\, we can still use your help.\n\nIf you can help wit h either or both of these two things\, or even if you just want to stay in formed of our activities and then decide on your involvement later\, pleas e register using the link in this announcement no later than Wednesday\, O ctober 1st at 5:00 PM. Your help is greatly appreciated.\n\n[Participating school systems in the Mission Tomorrow event.]\n\nBldg: Richmond Raceway Complex Exhibition Halls\, 600 E Laburnum Ave\, Richmond\, Virginia\, Unit ed States\, 23222 LOCATION:Bldg: Richmond Raceway Complex Exhibition Halls\, 600 E Laburnum A ve\, Richmond\, Virginia\, United States\, 23222 ORGANIZER:allen.jones@ieee.org SEQUENCE:40 SUMMARY:IEEE Mission Tomorrow Event URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/503290 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p class="MsoNormal">Join us in inspiring fut ure generations of engineers! Do you remember when you first decided that you wanted to be an engineer? Something that you saw or something that you heard about captured your imagination and changed your life. Now\, you&rs quo\;ve got the chance to help 11\,000 eighth grade students in the Greate r Richmond Area and beyond experience the same thing. On October 21<sup>st </sup> through October 23<sup>rd</sup>\, the IEEE Richmond Section will be participating in the <a href="https://www.chamberrva.com/mission-tomorrow /">Mission Tomorrow</a> career exploration event sponsored by ChamberRVA a nd Junior Achievement of Central VA. Eighth graders from 11 public school systems in the the cental part of Virginia will be attending this event to &ldquo\;try on&rdquo\; a wide range of careers. This will be a very fast paced event with new groups of hundreds of students arriving every 15 minu tes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes\;">&nbsp\;</span>This is the largest S TEM Outreach event that the IEEE Richmond Section has ever undertaken. Whe ther you are an IEEE Student Member\, Member\, Senior Member\, or Life Mem ber\, we need your input and assistance with this opportunity to help igni te the spark for the scientists and engineers who will follow in our foots teps. There are two main things that we need help with:</p>\n<ol>\n<li cla ss="MsoNormal"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->We need to plan a variety of high ly interactive and engaging activities that the students can participate i n. The activities need to give students a glimpse of what types of things people in our fields do and the activities need to be very quick. Each gro up of students will make their way through six exhibition halls with 15-20 companies in each exhibition hall. Each group of students will only spend 15 minutes in each exhibition hall\, so we will need to grab their attent ion very quickly.</li>\n<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: -0 .25in\;">On the days of the event\, we will need volunteers to staff the e vent. Each day&rsquo\;s event lasts 4 &frac12\; hours\, and we will need a t least two volunteers on-site at all times. Right now\, we are just tryin g to determine who might be interested in helping with this part because w e do not yet know exactly what hours we will need to be on-site. It will d epend upon which exhibit hall we get assigned to. The first exhibit hall&r squo\;s hours will be from 8:15 AM until 12:45 PM and the last exhibit hal l&rsquo\;s hours will be from 9:30 AM until 2:00 PM. You do not have to be there the entire time\, so even if you can only spare an hour or two\, we can still use your help.</span></li>\n</ol>\n<p class="MsoNormal">If you can help with either or both of these two things\, or even if you just wan t to stay informed of our activities and then decide on your involvement l ater\, please register using the link in this announcement <strong>no late r than Wednesday\, October 1<sup>st</sup> at 5:00 PM</strong>. Your help i s greatly appreciated.</p>\n<p class="MsoNormal"><img src="https://events. vtools.ieee.org/vtools_ui/media/display/be34365d-2b61-46d4-889b-94879cfed8 07" alt="Participating school systems in the Mission Tomorrow event." widt h="1099" height="962"></p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR