IEEE Mission Tomorrow Event

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Join us in inspiring future 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’ve got the chance to help 11,000 eighth grade students in the Greater Richmond Area and beyond experience the same thing. On October 21^st through October 23^rd, the IEEE Richmond Section will be participating in the Mission Tomorrow career exploration event sponsored by ChamberRVA and 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 “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 Member, or Life Member, we need your input and assistance with this opportunity to help ignite the spark for the scientists and engineers who will follow in our footsteps. There are two main things that we need help with:

1. We need to plan a variety of highly interactive and engaging activities that the students can participate in. 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 group 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 attention very quickly.
2. On the days of the event, we will need volunteers to staff the event. Each day’s event lasts 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 we will need to be on-site. It will depend upon which exhibit hall we get assigned 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.

If you can help with either or both of these two things, or even if you just want to stay informed of our activities and then decide on your involvement later, please register using the link in this announcement no later than Wednesday, October 1^st at 5:00 PM. Your help is greatly appreciated.

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• 600 E Laburnum Ave
• Richmond, Virginia
• United States 23222
• Building: Richmond Raceway Complex Exhibition Halls

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• Starts 25 September 2025 04:00 AM UTC
• Ends 02 October 2025 11:00 PM UTC
• No Admission Charge

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