[Legacy Report] WIE_IEEE Networking event with Distinguished Speakers

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The WIE Affinity Group - IEEE ACT Section (Canberra), Australia is a newly established affinity group, with an objective to enhance  networking opportunites for women engineers, and encourage younger generation particularly women to consider engineering as a career path. With this focus the WIE affinity group focussed on working in collaboration with different groups within the IEEE ACT Section and successfully conducted and participated in several events and activities,  within IEEE member community in ACT section, as well as engaged with several community groups outside IEEE. Following is the list of events, where WIE affinity group in ACT Section (Canberra), Australia engaged in 2014:

1. Collaboration and Participation in organisation of IEEE GOLD sausage sizzle fundraising event in March 2014 (30th March), for engaging with the community.

2. Organisation of Distinguished Speakers' Seminar on 5th June 2014 for networking with WIE members, for inauration of WIE affinity group in Canberra, ACT, Australia. (Two Distinguished Researchers: Prof. Lan Fu from ANU, and Dr. Hanna Suominen from NICTA were the distinguished speakers).

3. Organisation of 'Hour of Code' Workshop at Aspire UC, University Marketing Event for High School Students in Australia on 23rd July 2014 and 24th July 2014, for promoting Engineering and Computing careers

4.Organisation of "Learn to Code" event during National Science Week in iconic QUESTACON in Canberra in August 2014 for five days (18th August - 22 August 2014) , for engaging with younger generation (Age group 5 to 12), and was done in collaboration with IEEE, TISP, ACT Section, and UC IEEE Student Member Group

5. Organisation of coding activity for children during Annual AGM for IEEE ACT Section in November 2014, in collaboration with TISP and UC Student Member Group.

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