Lehigh Valley WIE Planning Meeting 1/8/24
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.
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- Date: 08 Jan 2024
- Time: 07:30 PM to 08:30 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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- Starts 20 December 2023 03:00 PM
- Ends 08 January 2024 08:30 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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Agenda
Meeting Minutes of Lehigh Valley WIE meeting 1.8.24
Attendees: Bonnie Rohde, Maria Cohen, Christine Gerveshi, CJ Sasso, Jennifer Winikus
- Approval of the December Minutes (pending)
- Updates to Betty's 75th Anniversary of the Transistor event (pending)
- Responses/Questions to proposal for Lego Challenge (August start) or Aerolab
- What middle school(s) would you recommend we approach?
- How many student/IEEE member volunteers will be needed? (class of 30 students/2 volunteers)
- How long will the program take? 2 hours/3 hours (set up and execution, over 5 sessions)
- Which group are we targeting? Elementary or Middle School
- How many middle school students or elementary school could participate?
- How much funding is required?
- Will we have a complete program to hand-off to volunteers or would the volunteers be providing input into the design of the program?
** Take to Ex-com to 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 the program.
- Did we meet our obligations to obtain the WIE Affinity group funds? Christine, do you know what our obligations are to meet funding ($200)? So many meetings, so many talks, anything else?
- When and where will be our next Happy Hour Event? Recommend back to Lehigh Valley or is there another area we didn’t address?
- Update on career panel opportunity 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 Lifang if LVS WIE could sponsor the event and stream it to our members and students? She will inquire and let me know.
- New items? Maria brought to the group information about a summer camp for girls in the Lehigh Valley where they are introduced to construction and engineering. She sent us a link https://www.letsbuildcamp.com/ She recommended this program for LVS WIE volunteers and student volunteers.
Bonnie mentioned a new initiative that was recently published in the IEEE Educational Activities Newsletter – IEEE Receives Grant to Develop Lesson Plans on Semiconductors (IEEE TryEngineering)
This also might be something LVS WIE might be interested in supporting.
Next Meeting: 2/05/24