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Event Recap: March Professional Development Meeting with Lauren Hasson

by Dallas SWE on in Meetings

On March 15, Dallas SWE hosted Lauren Hasson, the Founder of DevelopHer, a career development platform for tech women by tech women, and a practicing software engineer at a prominent Bay Area fintech company where she’s building their iOS SDK and working in information security. Her topic on Become a Negotiat[Her]: Learn the Secrets to Make More $ in Your Tech Career was inspirational and informative. Lauren walked through her professional development career and provided key negotiating tools she used to triple her base salary in less than two years. Her tips for negotiating included a) grounding yourself in data (Salary.com, Glassdoor, etc.), and b) understanding and using business needs as leverage.

As tech women, salary negotiation is an essential skill that needs to be learned and practiced. If you missed this event, please check out other upcoming professional development events on our calendar and utilize SWE”s Advance Learning Center webinars which are free to members!

Design Your World Volunteers Needed!

by Dallas SWE on in DYW, Outreach

Dallas SWE is a not-for-profit all-volunteer organization: we need YOUR help to make our next Design Your World STEM Conference a success! Step up and inspire students to foster their interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics! This event targets girls in grades 9-10.

Where: Seagoville High School P-Tech Academy — Dallas

When: April 14, 2018

We need volunteers to prepare materials before the day of the event, process registration, run activities with the students and adults, and help guide attendees to where they need to be! A big part of this event is interacting with students as engineers and as role models. If you want to help make Design Your World happen, click here to register as a volunteer!

FREE lunch is included for ALL volunteers! You have three registration options:

-Receive a free t-shirt from a previous year’s conference,
-Help us offset costs by buying a new t-shirt for this event,
-Or, if you can’t be with us on the day of, be a “virtual volunteer” and submit a donation!

NOTE: Volunteers will be required to register as a volunteer for Dallas ISD. The registration process does include a Criminal Record Check and a 10 minute orientation video. Volunteer registration will close on Sunday, April 8, to allow for all volunteers to clear the registration process. You can begin the process at: www.dallasisd.org/domain/35 

Please share our event flyer with your friends and classmates!

Thank you for your support of Design Your World: STEM Conference for Girls. We look forward to a great event this fall!

Dallas SWE FY19 Leadership – Call for Nominations

by Dallas SWE on in Announcements
FY18 Leadership Team

It’s that time of year again: we are gearing up to elect a new team of Dallas SWE Leaders! SWE is a great place to learn new leadership skills, give back to your community, and build a network of engineering professionals and friends! Per our section bylaws, elected officers must be voting members of Dallas SWE in good standing with the Society.

Officers are expected to attend monthly 1-hour executive council meetings, usually conference calls on a weekday evening. The schedule for the year is agreed-upon by officers each year. At the start of each fiscal year, a day-long officer transition meeting is held to share lessons learned from outgoing officers to incoming officers and bring everyone up to speed on Dallas SWE happenings. We have a wealth of experience to help you succeed in your leadership role and won’t leave you hanging!

See an important message from our FY18 Nominating Committee below!

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Dallas SWE is currently seeking nominations for officers to serve for FY19, beginning July 1, 2018.

There are 7 positions available and self nominations are highly encouraged! We need nominations for the following 1-year term positions: President, Executive Vice President, Vice President of Membership, Vice President of Outreach, and Secretary. There are also 2 positions opening for our Investment Committee which are 3-year terms. Formal responsibilities can be found in our section bylaws. You can also view practical descriptions and estimated time commitments of our assigned activities on our website here. Please e-mail any questions to shelleylstracener@gmail.com.

Please e-mail nominations to shelleylstracener@gmail.com by  Friday, April 6th at 11:59pm.

Thank you!
Dallas SWE FY19 Nominating Committee
Shelley Stracener(Chair), Amber Scheurer, Thi Dao

Please read below the cut for open position descriptions.

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Event Recap: Social Hour – Union Bear

by Dallas SWE on in Special Events

Thanks to everyone who made it to our social hour at Union Bear on February 22nd. It was a successful turnout with many new and familiar faces, despite the heavy rain and gloomy weather. Our Dallas SWE members checked out Plano’s first brewery at The Boardwalk. We kicked back and enjoyed elevated food and drink pairings while networking and socializing among great company. If you missed this event, please check out upcoming professional development and social events on our calendar!

Thanks to Thi Dao for organizing!

“Equal Means Equal” Documentary Film Screening

by Dallas SWE on in Announcements

SMU’s Women and LGBT Center and the American Association of University Women (Farmers Branch Carrollton)
will host a screening of the 2016 documentary film, Equal Means Equal, directed and narrated by
Kamala Lopez. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion. We’ve been invited to attend the screening in support of the movement to have the Equal Rights Amendment ratified in 38 states so that it can become an amendment to the Constitution. Please join us!

When: Thursday, March 29th, 7:00pm – 9:30pm

Where: SMU Hughes-Trigg Student Center, 3140 Dyer St, Dallas, TX 75205

Directions and Parking: https://www.smu.edu/AboutSMU/Maps/

There is no Eventbrite registration for this. Just come on out if you are interested. See you there!

March 15 Professional Development Meeting

by Dallas SWE on in Announcements, Meetings

Join Dallas SWE for our March Professional Development Event

As tech women, salary negotiation is an essential skill, but negotiating isn’t always so easy. Imposter syndrome, fear, and unconscious bias are real adversaries that can get in your way to a successful negotiation and earning what you deserve. The good news is that negotiation is a skill that can be learned. Come learn how Founder of DevelopHer, Lauren Hasson, tripled her base salary in less than two years by grounding herself in data and asking critical questions to uncover key leverage points and ultimately learned to negotiate with confidence.

About the Speaker: Lauren Hasson is the Founder of DevelopHer, a career development platform for tech women by tech women, and a practicing software engineer at a prominent Bay Area fintech company where she’s building their iOS SDK and working in information security. Her work has been featured in Apple keynotes, she was one of 100 top innovators invited to attend the UK G8 Innovation and Decide Now Act Summits with the United Nation’s technology council, and she’s won multiple, high-profile hackathons. She holds a degree from Duke where she completed a triple major with honors in electrical engineering, computer science, and economics in just four years. As the Founder of DevelopHer, she’s a champion for tech women and a mentor to fellow female engineers which is why she founded DevelopHer – to help tech women develop and advance their careers. Her podcast, The DevelopHer Show, is now available at www.DevelopHer.com and features leading tech women speaking candidly about their careers and lessons learned.

This meeting is open to all (men and women, SWE members and non-members alike), and children are also welcome (use your discretion, child care is not provided). Food will be available for purchase by the individual.

When: Thursday, March 15, 2018 6:00-8:00pm

Where: Coffee House Cafe, 6150 Frankford Rd, Dallas, TX 75252

Cost: FREE to SWE Members (as are all SWE Advance Learning Webinars!), $5 for non-members and guests

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