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SWE HA Series + Coffee
Date: Saturday, December 7th
Time: 10:00 - 11:30 am
Location: Location: A 2nd Cup
1111 E 11th St, Houston, TX 77009
Come explore Houston coffee shops every 1st Saturday morning of the month. Join in for a fun, informal networking event to get to know your fellow SWE members. Attendees are responsible for their own beverages.
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Questions contact Kathryn - kathryn.schoer@gmail.com
Time: 10:00 - 11:30 am
Location: Location: A 2nd Cup
1111 E 11th St, Houston, TX 77009
Come explore Houston coffee shops every 1st Saturday morning of the month. Join in for a fun, informal networking event to get to know your fellow SWE members. Attendees are responsible for their own beverages.
RSVP here
Questions contact Kathryn - kathryn.schoer@gmail.com
Business of SWE Meeting
Date: Next Meeting Dec 3rd
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Location: Bellaire Library
5111 Jessamine St, Bellaire, TX 77401
SWE HA Executive Council (EC) meeting is open to all members! We will be discussing future events and volunteer opportunities. We welcome you and your ideas. Come and get more involved!
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Location: Bellaire Library
5111 Jessamine St, Bellaire, TX 77401
SWE HA Executive Council (EC) meeting is open to all members! We will be discussing future events and volunteer opportunities. We welcome you and your ideas. Come and get more involved!
SWE-HA Annual Holiday Party
Trade in your office pen for a paintbrush at our holiday party! "Wine" down and unleash your inner Picasso for a festive night of food, drinks, and painting. We are opening this event to friends and family! They will need the link to register. We will be collecting toys for the STEM toy drive. Any (new) toy is welcome for all ages (newborn through teenagers) but we'd love STEM related ones. Please don't wrap the gifts. See you there!
Time: Thursday, 12/5/19 from 6pm-8:30pm
Place: Pinot's Palette on 2406 Taft St, Houston, TX 77006
Fee: $30 (This includes supplies, food, & drinks!) Last Day to register is 12/2. Spots are limited!
Parking Information: Limited parking in front of studio. Public street parking on surrounding blocks (Hyde Park, Fargo, Fairview) including pay-lot on Fairview. Please allocate 10 minutes to parking to arrive on time at 6! Avoid "no parking" signs!
Register Here
Donate Toys to our STEM toy drive!
Each year approximately 16,000 children are involved with Child Protective Services (CPS) in Harris County. BEARing Gifts provides holiday gifts to children under the care of CPS who otherwise would have no holiday cheer at all. SWE-HA will be hosting a STEM themed toy drive. We'll be collecting the toys at our holiday party. Any (new) toy is welcome for all ages (newborn through teenagers) but we'd love STEM related ones. Please don't wrap the gifts. For ideas, visit these web pages:
Time: Thursday, 12/5/19 from 6pm-8:30pm
Place: Pinot's Palette on 2406 Taft St, Houston, TX 77006
Fee: $30 (This includes supplies, food, & drinks!) Last Day to register is 12/2. Spots are limited!
Parking Information: Limited parking in front of studio. Public street parking on surrounding blocks (Hyde Park, Fargo, Fairview) including pay-lot on Fairview. Please allocate 10 minutes to parking to arrive on time at 6! Avoid "no parking" signs!
Register Here
Donate Toys to our STEM toy drive!
Each year approximately 16,000 children are involved with Child Protective Services (CPS) in Harris County. BEARing Gifts provides holiday gifts to children under the care of CPS who otherwise would have no holiday cheer at all. SWE-HA will be hosting a STEM themed toy drive. We'll be collecting the toys at our holiday party. Any (new) toy is welcome for all ages (newborn through teenagers) but we'd love STEM related ones. Please don't wrap the gifts. For ideas, visit these web pages:
- Amazon https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=14725559011
or search STEM toys - remember to use Amazon Smile and set Society of Women Engineers Houston as your charity. - http://www.goldieblox.com/
- https://www.target.com/c/stem-toys/-/N-4ykaf
- https://www.thetoyinsider.com/holiday_guide/stem-10/
- https://www.walmart.com/cp/stem-toys-and-games/1229858
40th Anniversary of SWE HA
Honoring our History while Celebrating our Future
Date: Saturday January 11, 2020
Time: 10am-1pm
Location: Maggiano’s Post Oak
SWE Houston Area was officially chartered on July 1, 1979 with a small group of passionate members and has since grown to the 4th largest professional SWE section in the nation. Don’t you want to hear our story? Come to the 40th anniversary event to celebrate our past success and our future. Proceeds will go to support our general scholarship fund. Program will consist of brunch with multiple speakers, networking opportunities, and raffle drawings. Raffle tickets are available for purchase at registration and during the event.
Time: 10am-1pm
Location: Maggiano’s Post Oak
SWE Houston Area was officially chartered on July 1, 1979 with a small group of passionate members and has since grown to the 4th largest professional SWE section in the nation. Don’t you want to hear our story? Come to the 40th anniversary event to celebrate our past success and our future. Proceeds will go to support our general scholarship fund. Program will consist of brunch with multiple speakers, networking opportunities, and raffle drawings. Raffle tickets are available for purchase at registration and during the event.
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Early Bird: by Tuesday December 10th
Final Deadline: by Monday January 6th
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About our 40th anniversary Speakers:
Stacey Delvecchio - Keynote Speaker
SWE Fellow and FY14 Society of Women Engineers National President Stacey Delvecchio will be the Keynote speaker for the SWE-HA 40th Anniversary Celebration. Stacey is recently retired from Caterpillar Inc where she was the Additive Manufacturing Product Manager. She is now leveraging her knowledge for her consulting business. She is an engaging and inspiring speaker that provides her audience with motivation and skill sets to cultivate in order to be successful in SWE, your career, and life.
https://swe.org/membership/swes-past-presidents/stacey-delvecchio/
SWE Fellow and FY14 Society of Women Engineers National President Stacey Delvecchio will be the Keynote speaker for the SWE-HA 40th Anniversary Celebration. Stacey is recently retired from Caterpillar Inc where she was the Additive Manufacturing Product Manager. She is now leveraging her knowledge for her consulting business. She is an engaging and inspiring speaker that provides her audience with motivation and skill sets to cultivate in order to be successful in SWE, your career, and life.
https://swe.org/membership/swes-past-presidents/stacey-delvecchio/
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Savannah Smith - Past Scholarship Recipient Speaker Savannah Smith was SWE-HA’s F.I.R.S.T. 2019 Scholarship Recipient. Savannah is currently in her first year as a Computational Engineering major and a 2019 Terry Scholar at The University of Texas at Austin. Her current career aspiration is to be a financial engineer to apply principles of data modeling and programming to her interest in business. SWE-HA awards F.I.R.S.T. Scholarships to female high school seniors who have a high interest in robotics or automation and who have competed in at least one F.I.R.S.T. Robotics competition. |
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We still have spots on the planning committee, please contact Stephanie at vp_internal@houstonswe.org, if you want to help with this historic occasion.
Professional Development Committee
We'd like to start assembling a Professional Development (PD) committee for next year's spring professional development events. Please contact Stephanie at vp_internal@houstonswe.org if you want to get more involved with SWE-HA, meet great people, and help plan exciting and new events!
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SWE-HA membership includes membership to the Federation of Houston Professional Women! Visit their website to learn more and participate in their events!
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Steps to donate to SWE on Amazon:
1. Sign in to smile.amazon.com on your desktop or mobile phone browser.
2. Go to Your Account from the navigation at the top of any page, and then select the option to Change your Charity. Select SWE organization to support.
For more information about the AmazonSmile program, go to http://smile.amazon.com/about.
You can also link Kroger or Randalls card.
You can register your Kroger Card at Kroger Community Rewards, by clicking on Enroll. Type in Society of Women Engineers Houston or use NPO number (GA147), to link your Kroger Plus Cards to SWE-HA. Every time you shop for groceries and swipes your card,we automatically start earning a rebate.
Steps to donate to SWE on Amazon:
1. Sign in to smile.amazon.com on your desktop or mobile phone browser.
2. Go to Your Account from the navigation at the top of any page, and then select the option to Change your Charity. Select SWE organization to support.
For more information about the AmazonSmile program, go to http://smile.amazon.com/about.
You can also link Kroger or Randalls card.
You can register your Kroger Card at Kroger Community Rewards, by clicking on Enroll. Type in Society of Women Engineers Houston or use NPO number (GA147), to link your Kroger Plus Cards to SWE-HA. Every time you shop for groceries and swipes your card,we automatically start earning a rebate.
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