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Riedolia Moore-Ellis

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Feb 15, 2014, 8:49:04 PM2/15/14
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Hello Everyone,


Time is of the essence ***You don't have to be an engineer.* All we need are helping hands who can read instructions, communicate & like kids to assist & facilitate workshop presentations.


This year NSBE-Region I will be partnering with the Brooklyn Children’s Museum for Engineers Week. Representatives from NYC NSBE collegiate chapters, professional networks, and high school/middle school groups are invited to come inspire kids to pursue STEM careers at their Engineer’s Week festivities in February!

 

The Engineer’s Week festival will take place February 17-23 at the Museum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The museum is expecting to see about 1,000 visitors each day, with most of the children under 10 years old.

 

Each day, volunteers will lead an Engineering Challenge program at 1:30, focusing on a new building or design challenge. We encourage engineering students or professionals from the NSBE networks to help co-facilitate these workshops, especially if one relates to your particular field of study.

 

Here’s the tentative schedule of events:

 

Date

Time

Workshop topic

Possible NSBE mentor specialties

Monday, February 17

1:30 pm

Electrical circuits and conductivity

Electrical engineers

Tuesday, February 18

1:30 pm

Nanoscience demonstrations

Nano engineers

Wednesday, February 19

1:30 pm

Polymer chemistry

Chemical engineers

Thursday, February 20

1:30 pm

Simple machines/designing marble mazes

Mechanical engineers

Friday, February 21

1:30 pm

Paper animatronic hands

Biological/Biomedical engineers

Saturday, February 22

1:30 pm

Parachute physics

Aerospace engineers

Sunday, February 23

1:30 pm

Parachute physics

Aerospace engineers

 

**Museum educators will provide all materials

 

We are looking for volunteers to sign up to assist with presentations during the week of Feb 17-23 2014 for about an hour or so. In order for this to be successful, we need as many COMMITTED volunteers as possible. They are really counting on us to show up! Please forward the sign-up sheet and information to ALL of your members. I hope you all sign up as well. Thank YOU !!!

To all those interested please sign up as a volunteer by February 10, 2014 6:00 pm. 

The sign-up form is located at this link http://goo.gl/LJaGii. If anyone experiences any technical difficulties, please e-mail me. 


Time: Workshops start at 1:30 pm each day 1-2 hr time commitment expected
The museum is flexible, so if there are specific time requests, please forward them to me. They welcome all even if you can only stay 30 minutes.

Let me Sukari, Neville & Myself know know what your needs are, and how we may assist you!




--

Jodie-Ann Duquesnay
2013-2014 Pre-College Initiative Chairperson
Region 1 Executive Board
National Society of Black Engineers
Office Hours: Fri 6-8pm, Sun 7-9pm
NSBE's Mission: 
To increase the number of culturally responsible Black engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally and positively impact the community.

--
Riedolia Moore-Ellis
Secretary, 2013-2014
NSBE Professionals NYC XL Chapter
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