Call for STEM Outreach Volunteers for March

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The Richmond Section has two STEM Outreach opportunities coming up in March and we are recruiting volunteers to help. We will have a planning meeting for these two events on Monday, March 9 at 8:00 pm. Signing up for the planning meeting does not commit you to participating in either or both events, but this is where we will decide what type of exhibits to bring to both events. We have a number of exhibits already, but we are very open to  suggestions for new exhibits to more completely cover our fields of interest.

The first opportunity is Celebrate Engineering Ingenuity Day, which will be on Sunday, March 15^th between 11:30 am and 3:00 pm at the Dewey Gottwald Center of the Science Museum of Virginia (2301 W Leigh St, Richmond, VA  23220). This is an annual event held in conjunction with the Richmond Joint Engineers Council. It targets K-12 students, but most of the attendees tend to be Middle School or High School students. We will have several tables of interactive STEM exhibits and we will need volunteers to staff the tables and speak with the visiting students and their parents.

The second opportunity is the Moody Middle School Career Event, which will be on Wednesday, March 18^th between 8:45 am and 10:45 am at George H. Moody Middle School (7800 Woodman Rd, Henrico, VA 23228). This will be an opportunity to talk with middle school students who are at that point when they really start thinking seriously about what they want to be when they grow up. You will have an opportunity to talk with the students and show them examples of the types of things that people in your field of interest would do in their careers.

If you are interested in being involved in either or both of these events, please complete the registration, even if you cannot make this planning meeting. (There will be a place in the registration where you can indicate that you won’t make the meeting but want to be kept aprised of the group’s activities.)

If you have questions, please contact Allen Jones at allen.jones@ieee.org.