Welcome to the SWE Region i Blog!

Welcome to the Society of Women Engineers Region i Blog.  My name is Lyndsey Schaefer, I am the Regional Collegiate Communications Editor for FY2012 and I look forward to providing an excellent resource for information and communication to the SWE community.

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Here is your collegiate leadership team for FY12. Left to Right: Lyndsey Schaefer (RCCE), Megan Schmidt (RCS), Sarah Bax (RCR), and Nicola Serrao (SWEFL).

Hope you are as excited for this SWE year as we are!

Thanks!

Lyndsey Schaefer

Region i – RCCE

rcce-i@swe.org

Hot Topic- Continuing in SWE

Hi everyone,

I already posted about how you can renew your membership, but I wanted to give you a few reasons why you should by telling you why I love SWE.  I love SWE because it creates so many opportunities to meet new people, give back to the community, and network.  It is a relief knowing I have so many people who I can go to for advice who have had very similar experiences and are more than willing to lend a helping hand.  I know that SWE will always be an excellent support system and will provide all of the resources I will need, so I plan on being a part of SWE for the rest of my collegiate years and once I become a professional.  In addition, I have been able to meet so many experienced engineers who have created and confirmed my confidence in my decision to become an engineer.  I hope you decide to keep participating in SWE, as well as, increase your leadership in SWE.  I think you will gain a lot from SWE.

Lyndsey

Reports

Presidents, just a reminder your last quarter report was due at the beginning of this month, if you did not get this to us it would be great if you could do so now!  Also, for the presidents and treasurers the annual report and financial report can be found on the resources page of this blog.  I know the school year is over for most, but please do not forget to complete these!

Lyndsey

Renew your membership!

Here is a link where you can log on and click on the membership option to renew your membership.  Do this now, so you do not forget in the craziness of the beginning of next year. Remember if you are a C2C member you still need to do this!

Regional Collegiate Election Results

RCR’s Victoria Fry University of Nebraska – Lincoln Kelsey Raus University of Oklahoma

RCCE   Sydney Wilcox University of Nebraska at Omaha

RCS   Megan Schmidt University of Missouri - Columbia

Hot Topic: April Showers… Bring May Flowers!

April is one of the most stressful months for a college student.  It is crunch time, projects are due and finals are coming up.  It is important to keep up routines, plan out each day, eat healthy meals, and get enough sleep.  Here is a link that gives you a little more advice about having a good day, which is very important to stay sane in the next month.  The article is kind of meant for working people, but most still applies. It is also important to find an outlet and a source of motivation.  This picture is very nerdy, but kind of humorous, keep this in mind when studying for you finals!

Joint Event Award

In support of the Society goal that all professional sections host at least one joint activity with a collegiate section in FY12, this award recognizes Professional and Collegiate Sections or MALs that have executed the best professional and collegiate joint event. The event can be a social, outreach or professional development workshop. Repeat of an event held in prior years can be considered; however, please indicate any innovations done for the current event from the prior year. Collaborating sections are encouraged to work together on the award submission, but each Collegiate Section may submit for only ONE event (because a single professional section or the MALs may support several collegiate sections, it is possible for a professional group to be included in multiple award packages). The deadline for submission will be June 30^th 2012 and awards will be distributed at the SWE Annual Conference in Houston during the Region meeting.

I posted the information about the award on the resources page. Here is a link.

 

SWEFL Nominations

The deadline to nominate freshmen and sophomores for SWE Future Leader is April 9th!  Click here for the eblast sent out about nominating someone for the SWEFL position.

Lyndsey

Elections

Hi everyone,

Don’t forget each section gets one vote for the RCR, RCS, and RCCE postions.  The deadline to vote is this Wednesday, April 4th!  Check out the available videos below and click here, Region I FY13 RCR RCCE RCS, to view the nominees’ applications.  Click here to vote!

Thanks,

Lyndsey

Hot Topic: Empowering Women

This month is women’s history month, so we decided to dedicate this month’s hot topic to empowering women.  As member’s of SWE, we are obviously supporting the organization, which I think plays a huge role in empowering women in our industry.  It provides a place for women to be supported, to be recognized, and to be inspired.  I’m sure all of us have women who inspire us to do what we do and just to give you a few more here are a few links.  The first is a link to a website about 50 Women Who Changed the World. The second is about Great Women in Engineering.

Hope your semester is going well, we’re on the downhill side of it!

Election Videos

Hi everyone,

I’m not sure why the election videos aren’t working, but if you click on their names those links work.

Sorry about that!

Lyndsey