Outreach Programs

Our Outreach Programs include a variety of activities to encourage students to pursue Engineering as a course of study, to help them successfully transition into professional careers, and to enable our members to attain personal and professional growth. Click on the links below for the different Atlanta based activities, and get involved!

• WOW! That's Engineering!
• ​SWENext

If you have any questions about these events or would like to have SWE Atlanta members assist with your own STEM event, e-mail our outreach chair, Kim, at sweatloutreach@gmail.com.

SWE Atlanta hosted our bi-annual WOW! That's Engineer at Avanos Medical in Alpharetta, GA on Nov. 16, 2019. This year, we offered three types of STEM programs for our middle school, high school and parents. Between the Girl Scouts,  our SWENext Club, and local students in our community, we had about 60 middle and high school students and over 25 parents who participated in this event.  Over 40 volunteers of SWE members, professionals, and SWE collegiate - Georgia Tech and Spelman college ensured participants had an memorable WOW! That's Engineering experience.  Our SWE collegiate provided insight to our parents and high school students on college life and hints on how to support their daughters entering the STEM careers while our middle school students had a fun-filled day learning about LEDs, chromatography, and blush basic chemistry. 

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Empower SWENext Club

Ruth4Kids SWENext club, EmpoHer hosted their 2nd annual STEMGIRLSWAG retreat in Decatur, GA on Nov. 9, 2019. It was Epic and another successful event. We had 2 Scientists and 1 Engineer who spent the day exposing and teaching our young girls in the area of Science, Technology Engineering, Art and Math. Over 25 girls attended the event. From "Eye Shadow Equations to "Can you make Science Bounce to "Is it Art or is it Science" and "Just Dance", we empowered our SWENext girls with these STEAM programs that required critical, creative and engineer design thinking with a little FUN! Interested in joining their SWENext club - EmpoHer, please visit:   https://www.ruth4kids.org/programs.
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