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Month: February 2014
Welcome to the brand new UConn Engineering Ambassadors blog!
This is a place where we plan to share our accomplishments, information about UConn, and highlight recent adventures in engineering, both locally and globally. UConn EA is a student run organization that aims to spread the word about the wonderful opportunities that engineering has to offer. We strive to inspire future generations by our outreach events. Check back every few days to see what we have been up to!
Ashford Middle School
SIGN UP!! (please)
Here’s your chance to be amazing.
This Friday, we will be hosting about 20 Ashford Middle School students (7th graders) and we need volunteers!!
You won’t have to do much except escort them from place to place and show them how amazing UConn is.
They will be visiting the Co-Gen plant and the Water Reclaim facility. Also, we need people to have lunch with them.
Attached is a google doc please sign up with what you can!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkqzucciodLzdENXby10cVRzTUhFZG0zZU95TDRNdHc&usp=sharing
If you have any questions, contact Patricia at patricia.santos@uconn.edu.
Thanks!! UConn EA
National Engineers Week
It’s National Engineers Week!
And we need your help!
Hey Ambassadors! This week is National Engineers Week. Kerry McCaffrey is leading the event and has coordinated activities and demos for our peers at UConn for each day this week. There are still time slots to volunteers for on Tuesday through Friday. Please fill out the google doc below to volunteer. We hope to see you all there!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArBYlZNwpaSOdDRROTBSdUVXOElNbHN3dHVqVWJvaVE&usp=sharing
Josh and Amy VPs Engineering Ambassadors – General Body
School of Engineering Career Fair
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow at the
UCONN School of Engineering Career Fair
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
South Rome Commons Ballroom
We have almost 70 companies attending.
Looking for a job after graduation? An Internship? A Co-op? Then this Engineering ONLY fair is the place for you.
Please use this on-line tool: http://www.engr.uconn.edu/careerfairform.php to find out which companies are looking for students like you.
Mall Madness- Girl Scout Volunteer Event
Howdy!
EA is looking for female members (will not turn down any guys though) for a huge career event hosted by the Girls Scouts of Connecticut. EA will be setting up a table about Women in Engineering at this “Mall Madness” event and we are going to do a few demos with the girl scouts.
It is March 8th, 2014 (Saturday) from 10 am – 4 pm at
Enfield Square Mall, Enfield CT (about 40 mins away).
Depending on how many people volunteer, we’ll either do two 3 hour shifts or one 6 hour shift. Only 2-3 people are needed per shift.
Please email Kimberly.Sayre@uconn.edu if you are interested or if you have any questions.
Engineering Involvement Fair
This Wednesday, February 12, is the Engineering Involvement Fair! This is your opportunity to share with everyone how much you love EA. You could check out some other cool organizations too while you’re at it! 🙂
How do you sign up to volunteer? HERE! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvvvhLfbgBDXdFBNZnA5M29Ia3BRbVg5Ynk5QzFLMnc&usp=sharing
See you all then!
Genesis Quiles-Galarza
Vice President of Internal Affairs, Engineering Ambassadors
Discover Engineers Week: February 17-21
Hello Engineering Ambassadors!
We are hosting a very exciting event from Feb 17th to the 21th: National Engineers Week! We will be presenting different hands-on activities each day in ITE, featuring many different disciplines of engineering. Hopefully we can help inspire current UConn students to pursue Engineering as a career, by showing them the cool stuff we can do. There’s a huge need for volunteers to help out, so please sign up for whenever you can using this google doc:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArBYlZNwpaSOdDRROTBSdUVXOElNbHN3dHVqVWJvaVE&usp=sharing
We are hosting a very exciting event from Feb 17th to the 21th: National Engineers Week! We will be presenting different hands-on activities each day in ITE, featuring many different disciplines of engineering. Hopefully we can help inspire current UConn students to pursue Engineering as a career, by showing them the cool stuff we can do. There’s a huge need for volunteers to help out, so please sign up for whenever you can using this google doc:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArBYlZNwpaSOdDRROTBSdUVXOElNbHN3dHVqVWJvaVE&usp=sharing
You WILL need training for these demos. They will happen after general body meetings on the next upcoming Thursdays (the 6th and the 13th), and during the course ENGR 3195 (Engineering for Impact) the next two Mondays from 5:00pm-8:00pm in UTEB 175. If you will be coming to the Monday sessions, you will not have to stay the whole time of course, just as long as it takes to learn the activities. Please contact Kerry if you wish to attend a training session.
Some details of the demos we will be doing this year:
Monday, Material Science and Engineering: hydrophobic sand, shape memory alloys, oobleck (on a small scale, not the giant tank)
Tuesday, Mechanical Engineering: bicycle wheel gyroscope, smaller gyroscopes, weighted spinning, 3D Printer
Wednesday, Civil Engineering: Making structures out of graham crackers and frosting, candy etc.
Thursday, Electrical Engineering: Van de Graaff Generator, electric rollercoaster Friday, Hovercraft!!
If you have any questions, please email kerry.mccaffrey@uconn.edu