For the second year, SWE is partnering with SEM Link As a part of its, Math and Science Career Academy to host a Science Café, “Engineers What They Do and How to Become One” to celebrate National Engineers Week(e-week), February 14-20, 2010. Science Cafés are informal and interactive scientific seminars for K-12 students, parents and educators that discuss real-world applications of science, engineering and mathematics. This is Science Café will be held on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 from 6:00-7:00 pm at King Middle School on 545 Hill Street. This event is for Cool Girls program participants, the students at King Middle School, but is also free and open to the public.
The café speaker is Ms. Beth White, a graduate of Colorado State University and a SWE member, is a Civil Engineer with Merrick & Company. Merrick is a full service engineering and architecture firm. Ms. White will be speaking about how the various disciplines of engineering come together and contribute on completing a project. She also briefly explain what classes (math & sciences) K-12 students needs to start taking at a young age to get an early start on a career in Engineering!
Although Beth is our esteemed speaker, we are encouraging all members to not only come out o support her but also be there to speak with the parents and students about YOUR career.
February 16th
6:00-7:00pm
King Middle School
545 Hill Street
Atlanta GA
There is no cost and no food for this meeting. Please bring your friends and family to this open community event! RSVP now!
Atlanta SWE Member Marsha Anderson Bomar was elected to serve her second term on the Duluth City Council (2010-2014). In addition, she will serve as Mayor Pro Tempore.
Ms. Bomar is President and Founder of Street Smarts, Inc.
L to R: Lucien Bomar, Marsha Anderson Bomar and Municipal Court Judge Charles Barrett
SWE ATL and Imagine It! The Children’s Museum of Atlanta Need you!!!
Over the last 18 months, SWE members have been working behind the scenes with the educators and designers at the museum to design a permanent simple machines exhibit for the museum floor. ATL-SWE members, identified the need for more science at museum, developed the concepts, which have been vetted by the museum educational staff, making sure that the tools are going to stand up to the hundreds of thousands of young visitors each year, and are now ready to get them built! This project aims to incorporate the science of simple machines for kids and parents to learn together through new hands on vignettes covering the concepts of pulleys, inclined planes, and levers.
What we need:
· 1-3 people with Solid Works (or AutoCAD) expertise to translate the vignette concept sketches into digital design files
· 1-3 people to purchase and build prototype vignettes
· Everyone to keep an eye out for the upcoming special meeting where we will try out the concepts at the museum.
Note, we do not require volunteers to be SWE members or even women – all support is welcome (and desperately needed)!
Please contact Wendy Cocke (wendy.cocke@kcc.com) if you can help in any capacity.