A successful planning meeting was held by the Executive Board on Saturday September 7, 2013 at a member’s home on beautiful Lake Norman. The calendar will be updated as dates are firmed up. We were pleased to have two members of the UNCC SWE Section join us for the planning meeting.
Clarence Lyons of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) was named the SWE 2013 DESA recipient for his work with SWE and Citizen Schools this year.
On April 25, 2013, 20 sixth grade students from Martin Luther King Middle School taught back to the community the skills they learned in a 10-week engineering apprenticeship with Citizen Teachers from SWE-CM and NSBE-CAEC.
We first brought you word of this exciting engineering toy for girls earlier in the year. See info below for ways to show your support!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyTQDX-ItiM
Drumroll please… GoldieBlox is in Toys R Us nationwide (!!!)
Your support made this possible. Watch our girls paint the pink aisle gold in this epic launch video: http://www.youtube.com/goldieblox
As exciting as this is, the odds are against us. We’ve been told that GoldieBlox can’t survive in mass stores next to Barbie. Convention says that engineering toys for girls are a “niche” for the affluent, and for the internet. Together, we must prove convention wrong. Here’s how you can help:
1) Share this video with your friends on Facebook
2) Go to your local Toys R Us and find GoldieBlox (it’s kind of like “Where’s Waldo?”)
3) Tweet or Instagram pictures of GoldieBlox on store shelves (#GoldieBloxintheWild)
4) Forward this email to 10 friends or family members
It’s time to march friends, family, and children into Toys R Us, look at the Barbies on the shelves, and then walk out with GoldieBlox instead.
March on,
Debbie + Team Goldie
Six members of the SWE-CM Section attended the March 28 – February 2, 2013 SWE Region D Conference in Orlando. Jennifer Braganza, Rose Mary Seymour, Tolani Owasu, Chris Cathcart, Cheryl Kinchen and Angela Berry all made the 8 hour drive to Orlando. SWE-CM participants made presentations, attended workshops and tours and attended the SWE business meeting. The event was capped off with a Masquerade Ball on Saturday night with good food and an opportunity to continue networking with the Collegiate and Professional members in attendance. Chris Cathcart, Cheryl Kinchen and Angela Berry (l to r in picture) hammed it up in the photo booth at the Masquerade Ball.
