First, a heads up on our next meeting, Dinner with Duke University SWE: We have set a date of October 28 at 7:00 pm, location still TBD (but it will be near Duke's campus).
Second, we received a note from Jon Protz (via a former Eastern NC SWE member) seeking a mentor - see his note below. If you're interested in mentoring, let us know and we'll provide you with his email address!
"I have three former students (one still a current student, one up at MIT now for grad school) who have founded an all-female rocket company around some IP they are licensing from Duke. They could use a good mentor."
Monday, September 27, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Professional Development/Networking Opportunities
New local meetings and events have been posted to the "Professional Development and Networking Opportunities" - Visit the site to check out the details!
“Meet-The-Brewer” Tour and Social – September 8, 2010
--- AIChE Eastern North Carolina Section)
Requirements for Results – September 9, 2010 (Register by September 8, 2010)
--- International Institute of Business Analysts (IIBA) and Women In Technology International (WITI)
Air and Waste Management Association Fall Social – September 9, 2010 (RSVP by September 7, 2010)
Tour of the SAS Solar Farm – September 17, 2010 (RSVP by Septemer 9, 2010)
--- AIChE Eastern North Carolina Section
I've also added links to Fred Pryor Seminars and Technology Training Corporation Seminars and Conferences. They're continually hosting events, so check them out and see if they offer anything of interest to you!
“Meet-The-Brewer” Tour and Social – September 8, 2010
--- AIChE Eastern North Carolina Section)
Requirements for Results – September 9, 2010 (Register by September 8, 2010)
--- International Institute of Business Analysts (IIBA) and Women In Technology International (WITI)
Air and Waste Management Association Fall Social – September 9, 2010 (RSVP by September 7, 2010)
Tour of the SAS Solar Farm – September 17, 2010 (RSVP by Septemer 9, 2010)
--- AIChE Eastern North Carolina Section
I've also added links to Fred Pryor Seminars and Technology Training Corporation Seminars and Conferences. They're continually hosting events, so check them out and see if they offer anything of interest to you!
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Updates to 2010-2011 Schedule and Officers
A tentative schedule for the year has been posted to the Events page. For events that have tentative or set dates, those dates have also been added to the calendar. If you have any ideas for the March meeting, please let us know!
Also, the Officers page has been updated to show the previously announced officers for 2010-2011.
I plan to post events for other science- and women-related events in the region hosted by other organizations, so there's anything you want me to post - particularly for events outside the Triangle area - please let me know!
Also, the Officers page has been updated to show the previously announced officers for 2010-2011.
I plan to post events for other science- and women-related events in the region hosted by other organizations, so there's anything you want me to post - particularly for events outside the Triangle area - please let me know!
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Essay Contest Winners
Eastern NC SWE Proudly Congratulates the 2010 Essay Contest Winners!
First Place!
Kenzie Ransom, L.J. Bell Elementary School
Second Place!
Savannah Tierney, Union Elementary School
Third Place!
Ethan Cullis, The Academy at Lincoln
Honorable Mentions!
Jessica Faulcon, Everetts Elementary School
Demi Ajayi, GRACE Christian School
Katrina Sills-Powell, Kinston Charter Academy
Hannah Cook, North Chatham School
Roy Clinard, The Academy at Lincoln
Anna Covington, The Academy at Lincoln
Rachel Dou, The Academy at Lincoln
Patrick Farrelly, The Academy at Lincoln
Jared Kohrt, The Academy at Lincoln
Matthew Macdonald, The Academy at Lincoln
Jon Pulaski, The Academy at Lincoln
Mary Kathryn Purcell, The Academy at Lincoln
Spencer Sherman, The Academy at Lincoln
Spencer Smith, The Academy at Lincoln
Paul Song, The Academy at Lincoln
Cam Williams, Woods Charter School
And a Special Congratulations to the Schools with the Highest Participation!
Everetts Elementary School
Kinston Charter Academy
Nancy Reynolds Elementary School
North Chatham School
Northside Elementary School
The Academy at Lincoln
Town Creek Elementary School
Woods Charter School
Thank You to All Participants!!
Thursday, April 8, 2010
6K Run for Water
6K Run for Water – April 18, 2010
UNC Engineers Without Borders
Second Annual 6K Run for Water
At Polk Place in front of Hanes Hall
UNC Campus
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Sunday, April 18, 20109:00 am
Register online at http://www.sportoften.com/events/eventDetails.cfm?pEventId=5733
prior to the event ($20) or in person the day of the event ($25).
For more information, send an email to ewb.6krun@gmail.com
UNC Engineers Without Borders
Second Annual 6K Run for Water
At Polk Place in front of Hanes Hall
UNC Campus
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Sunday, April 18, 20109:00 am
Register online at http://www.sportoften.com/events/eventDetails.cfm?pEventId=5733
prior to the event ($20) or in person the day of the event ($25).
For more information, send an email to ewb.6krun@gmail.com
Monday, March 15, 2010
Next SWE Meeting and Professional Development Opportunity
NEXT SWE MEETING:
Essay Contest Judging
Date: April 8
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Rudino’s, 4911 Central Park Dr, Durham, NC (just off Miami Blvd near I-40) map
We are now into the judging phase of the annual essay contest! The final judging will be at Rudino’s on April 8 at 6:30. Come ready to read and score the finalist essays (and eat some pizza). Please RSVP by noon (easternncswe@gmail.com) on April 8 so we know how many to expect.
To view a copy of the judging guidelines before the meeting, please contact the Career Guidance Chair at swe.essay.contest@gmail.com.
Are You Agile Enough? – April 8, 2010 (Register by April 6, 2010)
Mature Agile Teams: Sixteen Essential Patterns
WITI and AITP - RTP
NC State University Club
4200 Hillsborough StreetRaleigh, North Carolina 27606
Thursday, April 8, 20105:15 – 8:30 pm
Many teams have a relatively easy time adopting the tactical aspects of the agile methodologies. Usually a few classes, some tools’ introduction, and a bit of practice lead teams toward a fairly efficient and effective adoption. However, these teams quite often are simply going through the motions and neither maximizing their agile performance nor delivering as much value as they could.
Borrowing from his experience and lean software development methods, Bob Galen explores essential patterns—the ”thinking models” of mature agile teams—including large-scale emergent architecture, relentless refactoring, quality on all fronts, pervasive product owners, lean work queues, stretching above and beyond, providing total transparency, saying “No”, and many more. Bob also explores the leadership dilemma of self-directed teams and why there is still the need for active and vocal leadership in defending, motivating, and holding agile teams accountable.
Tentative Schedule:
5:30-5:45 Registration, Networking, Hors d’oeuvres & Water (Fruit and Plain)
5:45-6:45 Panel Discussion and Experiential, Interactive Activities
6:45-7:00 Questions, Answers and Session Evaluation
7:00 Adjourn
For more details, including speaker bios and registration information, visit: http://www.witi.com/rtp/meeting.php?id=2387.
Essay Contest Judging
Date: April 8
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Rudino’s, 4911 Central Park Dr, Durham, NC (just off Miami Blvd near I-40) map
We are now into the judging phase of the annual essay contest! The final judging will be at Rudino’s on April 8 at 6:30. Come ready to read and score the finalist essays (and eat some pizza). Please RSVP by noon (easternncswe@gmail.com) on April 8 so we know how many to expect.
To view a copy of the judging guidelines before the meeting, please contact the Career Guidance Chair at swe.essay.contest@gmail.com.
Are You Agile Enough? – April 8, 2010 (Register by April 6, 2010)
Mature Agile Teams: Sixteen Essential Patterns
WITI and AITP - RTP
NC State University Club
4200 Hillsborough StreetRaleigh, North Carolina 27606
Thursday, April 8, 20105:15 – 8:30 pm
Many teams have a relatively easy time adopting the tactical aspects of the agile methodologies. Usually a few classes, some tools’ introduction, and a bit of practice lead teams toward a fairly efficient and effective adoption. However, these teams quite often are simply going through the motions and neither maximizing their agile performance nor delivering as much value as they could.
Borrowing from his experience and lean software development methods, Bob Galen explores essential patterns—the ”thinking models” of mature agile teams—including large-scale emergent architecture, relentless refactoring, quality on all fronts, pervasive product owners, lean work queues, stretching above and beyond, providing total transparency, saying “No”, and many more. Bob also explores the leadership dilemma of self-directed teams and why there is still the need for active and vocal leadership in defending, motivating, and holding agile teams accountable.
Tentative Schedule:
5:30-5:45 Registration, Networking, Hors d’oeuvres & Water (Fruit and Plain)
5:45-6:45 Panel Discussion and Experiential, Interactive Activities
6:45-7:00 Questions, Answers and Session Evaluation
7:00 Adjourn
For more details, including speaker bios and registration information, visit: http://www.witi.com/rtp/meeting.php?id=2387.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Professional Development / Networking Updates
Updates to the "Professional Development and Networking Opportunities" area of the website have been posted to https://sites.google.com/site/easternncswe/professionaldevelopmentopportunities:
Association of Women in Science Networking Event – February 24, 2010
NC Biotech Center
Congressional Room
15 T.W. Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC
8:30 – 9:30 am
I’d like to invite you to a morning networking event sponsored by the Association of Women In Science, February 24 from 8:30 – 9:30 am in the Congressional Room at the NC Biotech Center. Any women working or studying in a field related to the sciences is welcomed. Light refreshments and new opportunities will be provided! I encourage you to pass this invitation along to women in your personal network that may want to attend.
I also invite you to join the new Linked In group, AWIS RTP. We will be posting job opportunities, both local and national, local events, and discussions relevant to NC women in the sciences. I have several new job postings and hope to add more events in the next few days.
Looking forward to meeting everyone on the 24th-
Ginger Rothrock
President, AWIS RTP
Sarah Williams
Vice President of Membership, AWIS RTP
What I Wish I Had Known (when I was a grad student at UNC) – February 26, 2010
NC Biotech Center
Lobby area / Congressional Room
15 T.W. Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC
Friday, February 26, 2010
6:00 – 8:00 pm
The Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society invites you to an evening of meeting women in the chemical sciences in the RTP area and listening to a presentation by Dr. Lisa Balbes of Balbes Consulting (http://www.balbes.com/). The main topic of the presentation is early career management. It's free, but so we can have some idea of headcount, please shoot an email to Brittany Westlake at wcc_rsvp@unc.edu.
Organizing committee:
NCSU: Elke Feese, Brandi Keene, Laura Sremaniak
NCCU: Maian Lopian
UNC: Brittany Westlake
Duke: Laura Moussa
The Lost Art of Person to Person Networking – March 3, 2010 (Register by March 1, 2010)
Meredith College
Science & Math Building, Atrium (both floors)3800 Hillsborough StreetRaleigh, North Carolina 27607-5298
Wednesday, March 3, 20105:30 – 7:00 pm
Join us for panel discussion and hands on exercises designed to increase your person to person networking skills. What is networking? How to network? Where to network? What to do after you have collected that big stack of business cards? How does networking help established professionals? This will be an experiential, interactive, learning event. This meeting is jointly sponsored by WITI, the Society of Women Environmental Professionals, ACS’ Women Chemists Committee (WCC) and Meredith College.
Schedule:5:30-5:45 Registration, Networking, Hors d’oeuvres & Water (Fruit and Plain)5:45-6:45 Panel Discussion and Experiential, Interactive Activities6:45-7:00 Questions, Answers and Session Evaluation 7:00 Adjourn
For more details, including speaker bios and registration information, visit: http://www.witi.com/rtp/meeting.php?id=2383.
Association of Women in Science Networking Event – February 24, 2010
NC Biotech Center
Congressional Room
15 T.W. Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC
8:30 – 9:30 am
I’d like to invite you to a morning networking event sponsored by the Association of Women In Science, February 24 from 8:30 – 9:30 am in the Congressional Room at the NC Biotech Center. Any women working or studying in a field related to the sciences is welcomed. Light refreshments and new opportunities will be provided! I encourage you to pass this invitation along to women in your personal network that may want to attend.
I also invite you to join the new Linked In group, AWIS RTP. We will be posting job opportunities, both local and national, local events, and discussions relevant to NC women in the sciences. I have several new job postings and hope to add more events in the next few days.
Looking forward to meeting everyone on the 24th-
Ginger Rothrock
President, AWIS RTP
Sarah Williams
Vice President of Membership, AWIS RTP
What I Wish I Had Known (when I was a grad student at UNC) – February 26, 2010
NC Biotech Center
Lobby area / Congressional Room
15 T.W. Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC
Friday, February 26, 2010
6:00 – 8:00 pm
The Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society invites you to an evening of meeting women in the chemical sciences in the RTP area and listening to a presentation by Dr. Lisa Balbes of Balbes Consulting (http://www.balbes.com/). The main topic of the presentation is early career management. It's free, but so we can have some idea of headcount, please shoot an email to Brittany Westlake at wcc_rsvp@unc.edu.
Organizing committee:
NCSU: Elke Feese, Brandi Keene, Laura Sremaniak
NCCU: Maian Lopian
UNC: Brittany Westlake
Duke: Laura Moussa
The Lost Art of Person to Person Networking – March 3, 2010 (Register by March 1, 2010)
Meredith College
Science & Math Building, Atrium (both floors)3800 Hillsborough StreetRaleigh, North Carolina 27607-5298
Wednesday, March 3, 20105:30 – 7:00 pm
Join us for panel discussion and hands on exercises designed to increase your person to person networking skills. What is networking? How to network? Where to network? What to do after you have collected that big stack of business cards? How does networking help established professionals? This will be an experiential, interactive, learning event. This meeting is jointly sponsored by WITI, the Society of Women Environmental Professionals, ACS’ Women Chemists Committee (WCC) and Meredith College.
Schedule:5:30-5:45 Registration, Networking, Hors d’oeuvres & Water (Fruit and Plain)5:45-6:45 Panel Discussion and Experiential, Interactive Activities6:45-7:00 Questions, Answers and Session Evaluation 7:00 Adjourn
For more details, including speaker bios and registration information, visit: http://www.witi.com/rtp/meeting.php?id=2383.
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