EWeek 2007 ENews #12 – January 19, 2007
Engineers Week 2007 will be celebrated February 18 – 24, 2007.
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Contents:
1. Calling Out to Houston and San Jose: Join the Design Squad
2. Dance Revolution Engineered to Storm Princeton and Milwaukee
3. Cyberchase Tele-training
4. In Local News
1. Calling Out to Houston and San Jose: Join the Design Squad
"Design Squad Engineering Wonder Weekend" is February 10 and 11 in Houston. Be among the first to attend a special screening of the new television series (airing in the Houston, Texas, region via Houston PBS/ Channel 8) "Design Squad", a new reality-based series designed to spark kids' curiosity about engineering. The National Engineers Week Foundation is an education outreach partner. Attend a workshop at the Children's Museum of Houston and try your hand at "Design Squad" activities like a rubber band car or hidden alarm. Help build a giant newspaper dome, create a pulley system to deliver goods to the "Design Squad" clubhouse and much more. There's also a special television premiere party. Contact Jennifer Brownlee at jbrownlee@cmhouston.org.
In San Jose, California, The Tech Museum of Innovation is excited to partner with San Jose's public broadcast station, KTEH, and local engineers to celebrate the launch of "Design Squad". Join the fun on February 24th for hands-on engineering activities throughout The Tech. Visitors can build a whimsical kinetic sculpture, design a circuit and switch to turn a buzzer on and off, or even build a device to launch a ball high in the air. Visitors will also have the chance to see clips from the show and talk with local engineers about the fun of problem-solving. Contact is Melissa McAlexander at melissam@thetech.org.
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2. Dance Revolution Engineered to Storm Princeton and Milwaukee
An electrifying dance revolution – along with hidden alarms and kinetic sculptures – will hit Princeton, New Jersey, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when the "Design Squad" arrives. The American Society of Civil Engineers will host volunteer outreach training in Princeton on January 25 and Milwaukee on February 9. The event is not limited to ASCE members. Volunteers will be among the first to see a screening of the new "Design Squad" television series, learn how to use hands-on activities and create public events. It's free but advance registration is required! Contact outreach@asce.org.
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3. Cyberchase Tele-training
Remember to register by noon on January 26 to participate in a free "Cyberchase" teleconference training on January 30 at 3pm EST. The National Engineers Week Foundation will host a teleconference for engineers with the Cyberchase outreach staff to discuss how to use the brand new Cyberchase Inventive Innovations activity guide with children in grades two through five. See Newsletter #11, January 17, for registration information.
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4. In Local News
February 24 is "EDay" at the Arizona Science Center in Phoenix. Engineers set up and staff special booths that day. Click here to see more about Engineers Week in the Phoenix area.
Planning is underway for the 43rd annual Engineers Week High School Banquet on February 21 in Portland, Oregon. The banquet introduces students to a variety of engineering careers and to engineers. Last year's event included more than 175 students from the Portland, Vancouver and Salem areas, representing 42 high schools and more than 100 engineers. Banquet speakers are from the Global Connection Project, a collaborative project of NASA, Carnegie Mellon University, Google, and National Geographic that uses digital camera technology and robotics to provide tools for disaster relief. Contact is Tova Peltz at tpeltz@gri.com.
The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Inc., in East Hartford, Connecticut, is running an ISE program for 7-8 grade girls at Windham Middle School which will include hands-on, inquiry-based activities, field trips to local industry, and presentations by leading local female engineers and entrepreneurs in the spring of 2007. Contact Robert Vieth at robert.vieth@gmail.com.
For the first time, Jacobs Engineering Group in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, plans to welcome area students. Engineers will meet and greet students upon arrival, followed by a presentation, a tour, some job shadowing, lunch, a team building activity, and wrap up event. Jacobs plans to have most of their female engineers at the event. Contact is lynell.zirke@jacobs.com.
At Gillette College, Wyoming,engineering students plan to reach out to local schools to promote interest in engineering in grades K-12. Contact Stefanie Crawford at scrawford@sheridan.edu.
An"Engineering Expo" is organized by the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida-Tampa. The event works as a venue to promote the engineering field, USF, and the potential of USF students. Over the last 34 years, this EXPO has grown to become one of the largest events held at USF. Engineering Expo is a showcase for engineering societies, organizations, and companies to show the fun in engineering and how it is a part of everyday life. It is mainly focused for K-12 students interested in science and engineering, but everyone is welcome. Visitors have the opportunity to participate in contests where they can have some "hands-on" engineering experience. Among the events and shows during the two days of engineering extravaganza are Fun with Physics, Chemical Magic Show, Laser Light Show, Robots, Rehabilitation Engineering and technology program, Electrathon (electric car race), concrete canoe, spaghetti tower contest, Multi Player Network Gaming, Engineering Boy Scout Merit Badge program, a SECME Regional Competition, and much more. The event is February 16 and 17 and it's free. For more information click here.
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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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