SWE Maine - Section F004

The Maine Section has been active for well over 30 years.  Our members work and live all over the state.  Our professional section meets with the collegiate section, based at University of Maine, Orono Campus once each year.  We hold our planning meetings each summer in order to set our meeting schedule for the year.  Formal meetings typically begin in September and end in April or May.  Our scholarship program is now offering $1,000 for the selected woman senior high school student who is planning on studying engineering or related field.  

Meetings and Activities

​UPCOMING EVENTS:  

INVENTION CONVENTION
Invention Convention needs SWE's help!  All of their judging has moved online for this year's U.S. Nationals competition.  They need ~1000 judges.

58% of their young inventors are girls and they want to excite them towards taking part in SWENext programs. So there is a lot to be said for SWE members engaging locally as well as nationally.  Invention Convention's existing partnership info with SWE can be found here:  https://inventionconvention.org/swe

The time commitment is ~2 hours of judging and a 90 minute required training session before judging begins.   There are 4 choices of training sessions from May 4th to May 30th.
Their website for info and signing up is here:  
https://inventionconvention.org/us_nationals/judging/

All judges will be asked to judge a minimum of eight inventions between June 3rd and June 14th which equates to approximately 2 hours or less of a time commitment. You may choose to judge more than 8 inventions if you have more time available.
PS: Want to see Invention Convention in action?  Check out their 2019 U.S. Nationals video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCVkdKXsfI8​===========================================================================

Professional Tour - Bath Iron Works, Bath Maine, pot luck follows in Bath - Postponed
BIW has suspended visitors from entering the property unless they are essential.  Due to the social distancing suggestions, we will rescheduling this event, but the date is to be determined.

End of Year Social - Portland, May 20th or 21st.  
Join us for our end of year networking and social event at a location yet to be determined, but in the Portland area.   It's a great way to meet and discuss all sorts of items.  

PAST EVENTS
The 74th Maine State Science Fair March 28, University of Maine at Orono
Maine SWE is supporting, please consider being a judge.   For more information see:
​: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tdX0R7NUdSFvkDztbrQfQvRt2SYVMw3Y

Judges will engage in constructive analysis and discussion of projects with high school students and determine the strengths and weaknesses of projects according to a rubric.  In addition to evaluating projects, judges also serve as representatives of their field, providing useful feedback, advice, and encouragement to all students. We provide refreshments and lunch and ask judges to be there from 8am to 2pm.

The Maine Society of Women Engineers and Friends with the Girl Scouts of Maine
Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 8:30 a.m. to noon
Balloon Car Design Girl Scout Badge 
Maine Department of Transportation (main office building)
24 Child Street, Augusta, Maine

The Maine Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
Annual Holiday Brunch - December 14,  2019 - Becky's Diner
Over a dozen intrepid women engineers made their way to the iconic Becky's Diner despite the road closures; the diner was open and we enjoyed a pleasant get together upstairs.  

Speed Resume and Interview Session - University of Maine at Orono; October 7, 2019
Maine SWE Professionals met with groups of Students and discussed resumes and interviews.  The event was well received by the students and our section is building on this year's event and will be adding this event to our next year's program.  

Thursday, September 12th, 2019; Meet and Greet Event       
​Location:  The Compass Room, SeaDog;  South Portland, Maine
Roughly a dozen of Women Engineers around Maine networked and chatted about Maine SWE's goals for the upcoming fiscal year.  


  

High School Certificate of Achievement Program

The Maine Section of Society of Women Engineers offers Certificate of Achievement 
The Maine Section of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is happy to again offer our Certificate of Achievement award to high school junior girls who have excelled in math and science during their high school careers.

Our goal is to encourage young women currently attending secondary schools to continue studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) classes in order to expand their educational opportunities and to consider engineering as a possible career choice.
Please cut and paste the following in the body of an email to certificates.swe@gmail.com and add the appropriate information.  Please provide us at least three weeks notice to prepare the certificate.  
 
·  School Name:
·  School Mailing Address:
·  Staff contact name: ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­
·  Staff Title or department:
·  Email:
·  Phone number:
·  Best time to call:
·  Award winner's name:
·  Date by when certificate is needed:
·  Do you wish to have a SWE representative present the award, if one is available? (Yes or No):
·  File Preference (word or pdf):
  
Thank you for your support of all those students who have worked so hard!