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National Engineers Week Foundation Newsletter - January 25, 2012

In This Week's Edition:

1. Global Marathon Registration Now Open.
2. Global Marathon Panel Discussion.
3. Engineers Week Volunteer Kits.
4. Countdown to EWeek-Helpful Tips.
5. Future City Regional Competition Winners!
6. National Girls Collaborative Project Webinar.
7. New Eweek Store Offerings.
8. Future City National Finals Call for Preliminary Judges.
9. Volunteer Opportunities at the Annual Discover Engineering Family Day.
10. Tell us about your local events.

1. Global Marathon Registration Now Open.
Registration is now open for the 8th Annual Global Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering and Technology on March 5-10, 2012. With the theme, 7 Billion and Counting: Dreams, Ideas and Actions to Change the World, prominent panelists from around the globe will lead interactive discussions around seminal issues such as water, energy, food and entrepreneurship. Daily sessions and programs will be hosted in 6 regions around the globe: China, India, Latin America, the Middle East, North America, and the UK/Europe.

The Global Marathon Daily Schedule is as follows:

Monday, March 5, Grand Opening and North American Program
Tuesday, March 6, Latin American Program and Food Panel
Wednesday, March 7, Middle Eastern/North African Program and Entrepreneurship Panel
Thursday, March 8, India Program (International Women's Day) and Energy Panel
Friday, March 9, China Program and Water Panel
Saturday, March 10, UK/Europe Program and Closing

Register today at:

http://www.inxpo.com/events/GlobalMarathon/Registration/

A special thank you to our sponsors: ASME, IBM, DuPont, Exxon Mobil,
Bechtel and the Motorola Mobility Foundation.

2. Global Marathon Panel Discussion.

Global Marathon Panel Discussion, Friday, March 9, 2012.

From Grassroots to Business to Government Initiatives: How Everyone Can Play a Role in Achieving Water Sustainability. As the global population exceeds 7 billion, the challenge of sustainably managing the world’s water resources has never been greater. Join us on Friday, March 9, 2012 as a panel of CH2M HILL experts discuss how individuals, businesses, and governments around the world are taking bold actions and delivering solutions that are changing the urban water paradigm. You’ll gain a better understanding of how everyone can play a role in achieving water sustainability.

Register today! https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/QReg.htm?ShowKey=7671
Like us on Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/GlobalMarathon

3. Engineers Week Volunteer Kits.

The Annual Engineers Week Volunteer Kits as well as the Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day kits are available for order! The Volunteer Kit is an informational packet intended for engineers and engineering students to facilitate participation and outreach. The kit contains a folded 2012 poster, classroom activities, and other resources. Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day has become an annual event on Thursday of Engineers Week. The Girl Day Kit contains the folded 2012 Girl Day poster, girl-friendly activities, and other resources.

The kits are FREE and are NOT intended as student handouts. Order through the online store at: https://shop.eweek.org/site/store/ call 412-741-1393.

4. Countdown to EWeek-Helpful Tips.

Tell the Engineering Community about your involvement by posting your upcoming Engineers Week Events on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/EngineersWeek and on the My DiscoverE page at www.mydiscover-e.org.

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5. Future City Regional Competition Winners!

We are proud to announce that the following schools have won their respective Future City Regional Competitions and will be traveling to Washington, DC to compete in the National Finals, to be held Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City. As there are several more competitions to go, a complete listing of all regional winners will be posted in our next newsletter. All winners will also be posted on www.futurecity.org. We would like to congratulate all the teams that have competed across the country for a job well done!

Alabama-The Academy for Science and Foreign Language
California (Northern)-Hart Ransom Elementary School
Florida (Tampa Bay)-Tarpon Springs Middle School
Georgia-Queen of Angels Catholic School
Idaho-Homedale Middle School
Illinois (Chicago)-St. Clair Junior High School
Iowa-Harding Middle School
Kentucky-Oldham County Middle School
Louisiana-St. Thomas More School
Mid-Atlantic-Kenmoor Middle School
Minnesota-Black Hawk Middle School
Nebraska-Elkhorn Ridge Middle School
Nevada (Southern)-Hyde Park Science & Math Magnet Middle School
New England-Bancroft School
New Jersey-Valley Middle School
New York (Albany)-Acadia Middle School
New York (City)-Islip Middle School
New York (Western)-St. Mary School
North Carolina-J.M. Alexander Middle School
Ohio-Immaculate Conception Academy
Oklahoma-St. Philip Neri Catholic School
Pennsylvania (Central)-Warwick Middle School
Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh)-The Ellis School
South Carolina-Kennedy Middle School
Texas (Central)-West Ridge Middle School
Texas (Houston)-The Village School
North Texas-McLean Middle School
Virginia-Hugo A. Owens Middle School
Wisconsin-St. Mary Parish School

6. National Girls Collaborative Project Webinar.

The National Girls Collaborative Project's January Webinar entitled Mixing in Math: Enhancing Everyday Activities to Build Confidence and Competence in Mathematics, will be held on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 1:00pm-2:00pm Eastern/10:00am-11:00am Pacific.

Looking for resources for girls and their families? Learn how educators and librarians are using Mixing in Math, a set of free materials in English and Spanish, to add math to circle time, story time, family events, and crafts. Mixing in Math was highlighted as an exemplary out-of-school time program for girls by the Harvard Family Research Project. During this webinar, we will show you how to use Mixing in Math to sprinkle a little math into what you already do with girls and their families. Come ready to explore shapes, sizes, and patterns in everyday life! Check out the Mixing in Math website for resources, more information, and to register: http://www.ngcproject.org/events/events.cfm?eventid=226

The goal of the National Girls Collaborative Project is to maximize access to shared resources within projects and with public and private sector organizations and institutions interested in expanding girls' participation in STEM. Webinars are offered throughout the year addressing research-based exemplary practices and strategies in informal learning, evaluation and assessment, and reaching underrepresented populations. Webinars and resources are archived and available for viewing.

7. New EWeek Store Offerings.
Tell the world it's EWEEK! Our 2012 catalog is full of outreach items, including colorful buttons with the 2012 graphic with a safety pin back. These are perfect for handing out at meetings, in reception areas, to clients and colleagues. Every engineer should wear one during February to build Engineers Week spirit. Sold in bags of 50, for $25 / bag. Please follow the link to view this item.
https://shop.eweek.org/site/store/detail.aspx?ID=6

Or consider our tasteful lapel pin, a blue enameled DiscoverE logo on a silver-color background. Wear year-round to show support for K-12 outreach. $10 for a bag of 10. Please follow the link to view this item.
https://shop.eweek.org/site/store/detail.aspx?ID=94

8. Future City National Finals Call for Preliminary Judges.

We are still looking for people in the engineering and technology fields in the Washington, DC Metro area to judge Models and Presentations for the preliminary round of the Future City National Finals on Monday, February 20th, 2012 (President's Day), from 7:30am to 2:30pm at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City. As a preliminary judge, you and your fellow judges will see 6 or 7 teams present their city’s unique features, learn how they came up with their ideas, and have a chance to ask students questions. The 2012 Future City National Finals will be held at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City at National Airport, 2799 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA 22202.

Volunteer to Judge Today!

Please register at http://www.futurecity.org/signup/judge

If you have any questions, please contact Bill Knight, National Program Manager at bknight@futurecity.org
1-877-636-9578 or 703-684-2889.

9. Volunteer Opportunities at the Annual Discover Engineering Family Day.

If you are in the Washington, DC Metro area and would like to volunteer for a 2-hour shift at the Annual Discover Engineering Family Day that will be held at the National Building Museum on Saturday, February 18, 2012, from 10:00am-4:30pm, please contact Anne Squire at asquire@nspe.org, or by calling 703-684-2864. The Annual Discover Engineering Family Day attracts over 6,000 visitors to the National Building Museum in Washington, DC every February. Family Day features dozens of hands-on activities provided by local engineering chapters and national organizations. Every year at the start of Engineers Week, the impressive main hall of the National Building Museum is taken over by thousands of children of all ages experiencing the excitement of engineering!

10. Tell us about your local events.

On Thursday, February 23, 2012, Argonne National Laboratory, just outside of Chicago, IL, will offer girls a full day of hands-on experiments, activities and talks, all designed to give the students the chance to be scientists and engineers and see the results of their work. Led by a team of two Argonne women engineers, the morning session teaches the girls about the fields of science and engineering and allows them to perform a controlled experiment, such as mixing up a polymer "gak". In the afternoon, participants will be members of an engineering team, will work on a project from concept through completion, and give a final presentation of their ideas, as they design, build, and test an electric car chassis and transmission.

Rockwell Collins will be hosting 75 middle school girls at its corporate headquarters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for its Annual Girl Day event on Thursday, February 23, 2012. Each young woman will be paired with a female engineering mentor for the day and will have the opportunity to visit a variety of engineering labs including the Synthetic Vision Lab, Flight Decks, and Testing Facilities. Girls and their mentors will also have lunch and hear speakers, including Rockwell Collins' Senior Vice President of Engineering and Technology, Nan Mattai. Girls will leave Rockwell Collins with information about opportunities for additional engineering activities and camps in the area as they move through high school.

At Nitsch Engineering, a Boston-based Women-owned Business Enterprise (WBE), female and male engineers will work with middle and high-school girls to explore this year's theme: "Engineering in School Buildings" on Thursday, February 23, 2012. This program will begin by introducing the girls to the types of engineering that go into the design of a school, followed by a brief presentation about engineering in the construction of the school. A female engineer will take the girls on a tour of the new school, which is scheduled to open in late spring. Hands-on activities will focus on specific types of engineering - structural, civil, traffic, plumbing, mechanical and electrical. The day concludes with a lunchtime panel discussion, led by five women in engineers.

To learn more about one of our Flagship Annual Events-The Future City Competition, please follow the links for several exciting and inspiring stories from around the country.

New York Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/future-city-competition-draws-whiz-kid-n-y-middle-schoolers-dozens-models-article-1.1006224?localLinksEnabled=false

Gainesville Sun
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20120119/GUARDIAN/120119476/1109/sports?Title=Students-building-a-8216-Future-City-8217-

NJ.com/Hunterdon County Democrat
http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/index.ssf/2012/01/six_flemington-raritan_student_1.html

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