Engineers Week 2008 will be celebrated February 17 – 23, and is co-chaired by the Chinese Institute of Engineers (CIE)–USA and IBM Corporation. Feel free to forward this letter or contents to other interested parties.

Contents:
1. February 21 Rally for Girls in Engineering
2. Survey Participation Requested
3. Engineering a Math Connection CYBERCHASE style
4. In Local News

1. February 21 Rally for Girls in Engineering
Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day 2008 is celebrated Thursday, February 21. Thousands of women engineers and their male counterparts directly mentor more than one million girls and young women in K-12 with firsthand experiences in engineering.Click here to seea listing of Girl Day events nationwide and be sure to post your activities. A free Girl Day kit is available for online ordering in the Engineers Week product catalog.

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2. Survey Participation Requested
As an outgrowth of Girl Day, the National Engineers Week Foundation is working with dozens of engineering societies, universities, and corporations to develop and implement a national initiative encouraging high school girls to consider pursuing a degree and subsequent career in engineering. We need your help! Take our brief online survey.

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3. Engineering a Math Connection CYBERCHASE style
The Engineers Week Coalition is an informal outreach partner for the award-winning PBS television series CYBERCHASE the only mathematics series for children on American television. You're invited to visit the newly launched CYBERCHASE outreach portal Web site, your all-access pass to a wealth of resources, including downloadable activities, promotional graphics and user-friendly training presentations. Register today for your access to the portal.

The sixth season of CYBERCHASE focuses on math in building and sports. Targeted to ages 8 to 12, each episode delivers positive messages about math by teaching concepts in a fun way that kids can understand, centered on a core math standard developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. CYBERCHASE is broadcast on more than 350 PBS stations nationwide, reaching five million viewers, including three million children age two to eleven each week.

Order your free CYBERCHASE Builders' Math Digital Activity Kit Now! Construction projects are full of mathematics. The Builders' Math Activity Kit contains a DVD with copies of Builders' Math themed television episodes and a CD-ROM with hands-on activities tied each episode. This new resource will be shipped in February 2008. Engineers Week volunteers can receive free kits by agreeing to participate in one hour-long teleconference training session. The first training is scheduled for March 19 at 3 PM EST.

Please send the following information to eweek@nspe.org to reserve your copy of the CYBERCHASE Builders' Math Digital Activity Kit: name, organization, mailing address, phone, number of kits requested (one per volunteer), how you plan to use this resource and how many students you plan to work with. Put CYBERCHASE KIT in the subject line.

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4. In Local News
Discover Engineering Family Day at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., is slated for February 16. Family Day 2008 - free and open to the public - features Nate Ball, host of the PBS television program Design Squad, scaling the walls of the museum with his invention, the ATLAS Powered Rope Ascender. Other highlights include appearances from Design Squad contestants, "Digit" from the PBS program CYBERCHASE, and dozens of hands-on activities for kids of all ages. More information is at http://eweekdcfamilyday.org .

Junior high and high school girls may delve deeper into science and mathematics at the 37th Annual Career Day for Girls on February 23 at Northwestern University's Technological Institute in Evanston, Illinois. The program is sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers. "Engineering: Preserving Your Future Through Design" features a day of team building and problem-solving activities as well as lectures, discussions and laboratory tours led by Northwestern engineers. Speakers are women who have engineering degrees or are engineering students. Reservation deadline is February 8 and contact is Ellen Worsdall at (847) 491-5173 or worsdall@northwestern.edu.

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Founded in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers, Engineers Week (February 18-24, 2007) is celebrated annually by thousands of engineers, engineering students, teachers, and leaders in government and business. In 1988, the National Engineers Week consortium expanded its scope and now includes more than 100 engineering, scientific, and education societies and major corporations dedicated to enhancing the public understanding of the engineering profession and to promoting pre-college interest in math, science, and engineering as a career option.

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