We need YOUR HELP at the next Design Your World STEM Conference for Girls! Please help us as we bring back our award-winning program, Design Your World!
This event will be held in collaboration with Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas, at the STEM Center of Excellence on Saturday, March 19th.
Volunteers are needed to prepare for the conference and for specific activities on the day of the event. Please sign up to volunteer here!
You may sign up for multiple roles, as long as the job duties and times do not overlap.
WE Local is back for 2022! WE Local conferences are organized by SWE to bring together participants in all stages of their collegiate and professional journey. The conferences create space for engineers, technologists, and partners to connect through professional development sessions, inspirational speakers, networking opportunities, and more. There are 3 domestic conferences and 2 international ones schedule between February and May. Please see here for more details.
WE Local registration and housing for Albuquerque are now open! Early bird registration for the conference is just $175. You can register here. The conference will be held at the Embassy Suites by Hilton. The program is still being finalized but promises to be a great lineup of speakers and topics.
If you plan to attend any WE Local and would like help connecting with other Dallas SWE members also attending, please email dallas.swe@gmail.com.
The Future City Competition – sponsored by DiscoverE (National Engineers Week) – inspires young students about engineering by challenging them to solve the real-world problems associated with building a livable city of the future. Through a series of fun, hands-on applications, student teams will apply the principles of every branch of engineering to address their future cities’ issues. This year’s theme is “Waste-Free Future.” More than 50 schools are working hard on their city concepts and their solutions for eliminating waste and pollution from future cities. You can get more information and to sign up to volunteer here.
Congratulations to Ashton McCary, Dallas SWE’s December 2021 Member of the Month!
Ashton is a native to Dallas graduating from the University of Texas at Dallas with a BS degree in Chemistry. She worked at Raytheon Technologies for nine years as a materials process engineer and a failure analysis chemist. Her responsibilities included performing root cause investigations of material and chemical related product failures.
While at Raytheon, Ashton also served on the Raytheon Women’s Network leadership team starting in 2018. In these roles, she worked on a team with several amazing ladies to promote women in STEM by putting on lunch & learns, networking events, and organizing volunteer work for young girls interested in STEM. This is when Ashton first became introduced to the Society of Women Engineers. Raytheon collaborated with the Society of Women Engineers by providing volunteers for Design Your World which she attended.
Ashton recently left Raytheon in order to explore a career change to patent law. It is also around this time Ashton officially joined the Society of Women Engineers. She is currently engaged with the outreach committee to plan a collaborative event with The Girl Scouts for this year’s Design Your World.
Ashton quotes, “I am impressed by the encouragement, positivity, knowledge and passion among the members of Dallas SWE and feel honored to be a member! The Dallas SWE president heard my desire to pursue patent law and immediately connected me with another woman in the field. The VP of Outreach takes every opportunity she can to encourage and recognize other members. The members of Dallas SWE are consistently warm and welcoming!”
Dallas SWE would like to welcome our new VP of Outreach, Rana Karimi! Rana is a Senior Consultant at ProcureAbility where she advises her clients in strategic sourcing, procurement best practices, and category management in engineering and technical categories. As a mechanical engineer and STEM professional, Rana cares deeply about promoting women in STEM. She has previously served on our Executive Committee as VP of Membership for FY20-21, and Secretary in FY19. Her creativity and passion for STEM will help guide our outreach efforts for the remainder of FY22.
Dallas SWE had its first kickoff event of FY22 in Cottonwood Park in Richardson on Saturday, October 9th. We got to mingle while playing fun board games and online games at this event, which was a perfect way to meet fellow SWEsters. The event was held both virtually and in-person with masks on. Fortunately, the weather that weekend was fantastic! The in-person party played Pandemic and many rounds of Secret Hitler, while the virtual group played GeoGuessr. GeoGuessr is a geographic discovery game in which the players have to guess their location based on Google Street view. Pandemic is a great cooperative game in which you must eliminate four diseases that are threatening to wipe out a region. Secret Hitler is a fun deduction game in which you have to figure out who the Hitler is in the group. We hope everyone who attended to the kickoff had a great time!
