Take Apart a Toaster Event
March 9th – 9am to 12pm
Region 10 Technical School, Brunswick ME.
SWE Maine volunteers share their love of engineering with Girl Scouts of Maine. Cadette Girl Scouts (and some responsible Juniors) will get to reverse engineer broken household items.
- Items to disassemble includes:
- Vacuum cleaners
- Keyboard
- Bluetooth speaker
- Toaster
- DVD player
March 1-2, 2024
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel, 700 Aliceanna Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
Welcome to Baltimore, a city steeped in history, culture, and scientific achievement. Join hundreds of participants in all stages of their careers to network and learn through professional development sessions, inspirational speakers, networking opportunities, and more. Connect at our career fair featuring recruiters from top engineering and technology companies, and be a part of a WE Local Community. You will leave with renewed inspiration – and definitely a few new friends. Come visit us in Charm City, where the past meets the future, and together, we will Live Without Limits.
Sip on your beverage of choice and join Maine SWE and the Project Management Institute of Maine on Tuesday, March 19 as we co-host a Wine and Webinar from 6:30-8 pm. After brief introductions to the two organizations, we will watch Future-Proofing your Career: Work Trends to 2030, a webinar from the SWE Advanced Learning Center, and pause to reflect and discuss in breakout rooms.
This is a fully virtual event. Click here to RSVP.
More details about the webinar are included below.
- Course Description: This interactive course will address how the global workplace, organizations and employees will change in the next 10-15 years. Author and futurist Alexandra Levit will explore what the future of work has to offer – from technology advances to the human advantage. By discussing the implications of these developments, individuals will be in an excellent position to be both productive and competitive in the workforce of tomorrow.
- Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize how 21st century demographics will impact who is available to work, and where
- Identify what hybrid teams are, and describe the unique skills of both humans and machines
- Identify ways to succeed in an environment with differing and frequently changing work arrangements
- Speaker: Alexandra Levit is the author of the new book Humanity Works: Merging Technologies and People for the Workforce of the Future and the bestselling They Don’t Teach Corporate in College. A partner at People Results, she helps Fortune 500 and government organizations and their leaders prepare for the future of work through proprietary research, consulting, and program development.
Please contact us if you would help to help organize a local industry tour. Details about a possible tour to be announced in the spring.
More details about this event to be provided in the spring.
Join us on a local family-friendly outing. We will organize something in the city hubs listed below. We will organize a Saturday event located in the city hubs listed below.
- Bangor
- Waterville
- Augusta
- Lewiston-Auburn
- Portland
- Kennebunk
- Kittery/Portsmouth
Times and locations of each event will be announced later this spring.
