Your voice matters! Please cast your vote for our Dallas SWE
FY20 Leadership Team. You must be a voting member of the Dallas SWE
Professional Section and in good standing with the society to vote. The
Nominating Committee will verify each voter’s member status.
The Dallas SWE FY19 Nominating Committee is pleased to present
the following slate of candidates for your consideration to serve during FY20
(July 1, 2019-June 30, 2020). Ballots will be distributed to members
electronically on May 1st and voting will conclude 30 days thereafter.
President – Zaineb Ahmed
Executive Vice
President – Amanda Alsbrook
Vice President of Membership – Rana
Karimi
Vice President of
Outreach – Thi Dao
Treasurer (2-year term) – Katie Mills
Secretary – Samantha Zellner, Lex
Clark
Investment Committee Member
(3-year term) – Shelley Stracener
Per the Dallas SWE bylaws additional candidates may be nominated
by petition, provided that:
The member is eligible for the position;
The member has given written consent to being placed on the ballot;
A minimum of two percent or five of the voting members of the section, whichever is greater, have signed a petition or endorsed an email to place the candidate’s name on the ballot and
The petition, together with the written consent, is submitted to the chair of the nominating committee by April 30 or fifteen days after the slate is announced to the members of the section, whichever is later.
Dallas SWE paid membership as of April 14 is 245, so the petition endorsement minimum is 5
members. Please send any nominations by petition with the required endorsements
and consent of the candidate to k.gomez812@gmail.com by April 30th.
Thank you!
Dallas SWE FY19 Nominating Committee
Katia Gomez, Amanda
Posadas, Kim Concillado, Malia Kawamura
Dallas SWE is teaming up with our resident WNBA team, the Dallas Wings, for the 2019 STEM Day Expo! The event will be held on Sunday, May 19th from 12-2pm, prior to their preseason game. The game will start at 2pm.
The Dallas Wings are dedicated to serving the community and have chosen to celebrate the exciting world of STEM for this game. To help us to inspire young minds, multiple organizations and companies will be running hands-on activities and demonstrations to engage attendees (of all ages) and teach interesting concepts! The STEM Expo is open to all ages and is included with a ticket to the game. Please see our flyer for more details and use this link for discounted tickets: https://groupmatics.events/event/Dallaswings8.
Registration for Volunteers and Student participants is now open for the spring College to Careers Professional Development Event, and we need your help to make it a success. The event will be held on Saturday, April 20, from 9am to 4pm at University of Texas at Arlington.
This free, day-long event is intended to help students develop the skills, knowledge, and abilities to transition from student life to professional life. Activities will focus on securing employment, achieving your highest potential, and developing a diverse career experience. Professionals are needed to help focus topics & coach students on how to make the most of their early career years. Please register through Eventbrite.
Dallas SWE is pleased to recognize Sally Kammer as a Member of the Month for April 2019! With our Member of the Month program, Dallas SWE seeks to recognize some of our non-officer members whose technical contributions, leadership accomplishments, or SWE volunteer service are particularly noteworthy. If you would like to nominate a Dallas SWE member for his/her contributions, please email us at dallas.swe@gmail.com.
Sally earned her BS in Computer Science from Missouri Science and Technology, formerly University of Missouri at Rolla. She currently works as a telecommunications virtualization designer at Verizon. Sally joined SWE as a professional in 2013. Sally has a passion for encouraging youth in STEM and to pursue their dreams by helping connect them with good experiences, support, and training. Building on years of volunteering with the Collin County City House, Sally is expanding into greater outreach with the SWE STEM Outreach chair following several Verizon Innovative Learning program events since 2017.
Below is Sally’s story in her own words!
When I took on the Outreach Chair role I’d heard I’d get a
lot of great support from our Dallas SWE community and I’ve now been amazed to
see it in action in 2019. Before
jumping into Outreach, I’d enjoyed several SWE professional development events
and dipped my toes into a few social events in SWE since joining a few years
back. I’m a bit more introverted; I have
a drive, though, to help children and teens see better options (like STEM
Careers) and have better support in their lives. Taking this plunge with Outreach has let me
see entirely new dimensions of strong, capable and caring women shining in
Dallas and encouraging our next generations to dream and experiment and create.
I’ve loved most watching us help light a spark in kids of all ages at our
Outreach events as we give them a challenge and watch them try it; encouraging
them to plan their idea and work through building it. Then they’ve got to guess how it will test
and try it out. For many their
confidence momentarily wavers as something unexpected happens when they test
it…and that’s when one of us helps with “it’s okay, what do you think happened,
and what do you want to try differently next time?”
That’s the moment when, if they decide to try again, they think a little
deeper. The jump in determination and
self confidence as they see themselves hopefully work through challenges and
learn they can maybe do more than they thought.
That moment is priceless to me.
After I spent years playing it a little too safe to not lose my
“she’s smart” label…I want to instead reward ideas and
determination and effort in good directions in our future STEM solution
builders. This is the way I live now as
I keep adding skills and tools in my own personal toolbox.
My favorite thing about SWE: “I’ve been amazed at the many talented and dedicated women I’ve been lucky enough to volunteer with in Outreach events; especially seeing the myriad of ways we find to encourage kids to dig into STEM!”
Come celebrate the seniors! Dallas SWE will be hosting a brunch at Ida Claire in Addison on April 27th to celebrate the accomplishments of the graduating SWE seniors from Collin College, UTD, UNT, and SMU. Brunch will begin at 11:30, so please join us in congratulating the seniors! Brunch will be provided for graduation SWE Collegiate members by Dallas SWE.
