Are you interested in science and engineering outreach for kids? Come volunteer with the Science Explorers! We’re a science enrichment program at Sanislo Elementary school, where we do fun weekly science and engineering lessons, like bottle rockets and potato circuits! This quarter we’ll be focusing on engineering activities.

Check out our website and attend an info session on Tuesday, January 10 at 2:30 in EEB 431. Please RSVP to sdrao@uw.edu if you plan on attending.

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Sundipta Rao

Graduate Student (PhD)

Seelig Lab | University of Washington

sdrao@uw.edu

AWRA-UW is focused on fostering discussion, community and networking around water-related issues. We host career development, research, field trip and service events, and are supported by our student officers and the active Washington State professional chapter of AWRA.

It is a great organization to work with as it provides career-building experience for those in environmental engineering, water resources and hydrology, environmental science and environmental policy. Past members and officers have found internships and jobs through AWRA-UW events and contacts.

Currently, the chapter has only two student officers for the 2016-2017 year, and currently has zero CEE graduate student officers. Typically, the chapter has had 4-7 officers with several each year hailing from CEE (home of the water resources program!).

So if you are interested, please consider helping out as an officer! The time commitment is not substantial: the chapter plans 1-2 events per quarter and the officers work together on the planning efforts. Undergraduate, master’s and PhD students are all welcome and have served as officers in the past.

Interested folks should contact Rachel Freeman (rfreema3@uw.edu), Tyler Oshiro (toshiro7@uw.edu) or awra@uw.edu.

Thank you!

AWRA-UW Officers
students.washington.edu/awra

Are you a female undergraduate or graduate student in STEM? Are you all too familiar with being in the minority? Would like to help change this for the next generation? I’d like to introduce a great outreach opportunity through the Society of Women Engineers (SWE).

Time to Invent (TTI) is an after-school outreach program focused on instilling a love of science and engineering in young girls . Once a month – for 2 hours – we visit a local elementary school where we lead 3rd-5th grader girls through hands-on science activities. Past activities have included building aluminum boats to learn about density and buoyancy and learning about absorption with common kitchen ingredients!

 Check out our Facebook page ! http://www.facebook.com/timetoinventuw

Why join?

– Inspire the new generation
– Help develop engaging science experiments for kids
– Connect with UW female graduate/undergraduate students from other departments

Information Session:

Day: October 6th
Time: 2:30 – 3:30pm
Place: CSE 203

Please RSVP so we have an estimate for people and snacks. If you choose to volunteer, we will have sign-up sheets at the meeting.

RSVP here https://goo.gl/forms/g3OXZTMrxWZXsR0I2

This program is also the beginning of a graduate student-focused group within the UW section of SWE – a global organization supporting the success of women in STEM fields. SWE at UW has fantastic networking opportunities with employers and other professional women, leadership workshops, conference presentations, and more.

Questions? Contact us at timetoinventuw@gmail.com

Science explorers is currently recruiting graduate student volunteers to come teach fun science and engineering lessons to kids! We do everything from bottle rockets to potato circuits.

We’ll have an orientation session on Tuesday, Oct 4 at 12:30 in EEB 303. We’ll be ordering pizza for the event so please rsvp to sdrao@uw.edu if you’re interested in attending!

Thanks,

Sundipta Rao
Graduate Student (PhD)
Seelig Lab | University of Washington
sdrao@uw.edu