Mark your calendars for the first virtual Design Your World Mini-Series: Home Edition on Saturday, October 25. Join us as female industry professionals lead fun, hands-on activities for 7th and 8th grade girls. Your budding scientist and engineers won’t want to miss this! General student registration opens on October 14. If you would like to help with the event, volunteer registration is now open. You can find more information on our website, www.designyourworld.org, or email us at designyourworld.swe@gmail.com. We hope to see you all there!
On September 28th, Dallas SWE hosted a mindfulness social led by Sarah Sampson, Founder and Director at Art of the Circle, an organization that provides trainings and experiences based in Restorative Justice, Social-Emotional Learning, and Mindfulness. The social opened up with the Rose and Thorn sharing exercise, where everyone was invited to share about something going great, and something that isn’t. Then, Sarah shared several strategies that can be used to ground ourselves back to the present moment. There were several opportunities for each of us to share our experiences on different scenarios in our lives and how we utilize mindfulness to keep a positive perspective, like the “what-if” exercise, where instead of viewing the unknown as a negative, to see it as an opportunity. Below is how another one of the strategies, reframing, can be considered when looking at a circumstance from another perspective.
The session was highly engaging, and Dallas SWE would like to thank Sarah for curating the materials and developing such thoughtful exercises and content for us to connect with.
Are you confident in your math skills? Tutor 4 Change (T4C) offers free virtual tutoring for students and is looking for volunteers to tutor subjects from pre-algebra to calculus. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, please complete the Volunteer Inquiry Form. For more information, visit their website or email info@tutors4change.org.
Get involved and volunteer as a virtual guest speaker or mentor for the Woodrow Wilson HS robotics teams. Guest speakers and mentors will share their backgrounds and fields of expertise with these student teams. While rocket scientists are always helpful, you do not have to be one to help out! There are technical and non-technical mentor roles. To find out more information including how to get involved, click the link here.
Come join for SPOOKTACULAR good time as we celebrate with a Halloween social on October 27th! We will have pumpkin carving, great socializing, games, and more! We invite everyone to dress up in their favorite Halloween costumes for a chance to win a big prize! We will also be doing other contests throughout the event and carving pumpkins together on the call, so if you would like to join please have your pumpkin and carving tools handy during the call!
Register below or visit the Eventbrite to sign up!
Congratulations to Laura Cowley, the Dallas SWE October Member of the Month!
Laura Cowley is originally from Kansas were she graduated from Kansas State University with her M.S. and B.S. in architectural engineering. She moved to Dallas upon graduation and has been working for the same company (wsp) for 8 years doing electrical engineering consulting for healthcare. Two years ago she was recognized by Consulting Specifying Engineering magazine as a 40 under 40 award recipient. Laura has been involved with SWE since college where she was the section president for two years and a senator for region i. She’s served on the membership committee for several years, and is currently a SWENext advisor for Coppell High School. In Jan of 2020, Laura was able to meet some of the SWENext ladies as they all volunteered together at a Future Cities competition.
I love the passion and innovation of SWEsters that comes alive during annual conference.
