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October 20,2004
San Jose Mercury News: Gift of Reading
Dear IEEE Volunteers,
We have been awarded to be a recipient of The Mercury News Gift of
Reading Program. That means we may receive around 2000
books. However, we need volunteers who can assist with sorting
the books. The books are received by San Jose Mercury and
Barnes&Nobles and other bookstores. The volunteers will sort
the books into different age levels. This books will be given out
to students at the different elementary, middle, high schools in our
area. The sorting will be done at San Jose Mercury News
headquarters which is around Brokaw Road and 880, so make sure it is
convenient for you to make it on time. There may be some lifting
of books or boxes : from 10 to 40 pounds, so make sure you don't have
any back problems. Most ladies only sort the books and the guys
carry the boxes to different stations.
So if you are interested in exercising your community involvement,now
is the time.
We need at least 5 volunteers for these avaiable time slots/dates.
You can volunteer for more than 1 time slot if you have extra time.
Friday, Dec. 3 9:30am-12pm, 1-3:30pm, 3:30pm-6pm
Saturday, Dec 4 1-3:30pm
Monday, Dec 6 9:30am-12pm, 1-3:30pm, 3:30pm-6pm
Tuesday, Dec 7 9:30am-12pm, 1-3:30pm, 3:30pm-6pm
Wednesday, Dec 8 9:30am-12pm, 1-3:30pm, 3:30pm-6pm, 6pm-8pm
Thursday, Dec. 9 9:30am-12pm, 1-3:30pm
I need your full name, daytime phone #, email address, and indicate
which shift date and time.
Regards,
David Fong
daffy@ieee.org
510-687-4507
February 12,2002
March
2,2002 Synopsys Sponsored East San Jose Science Fair (sciencepalooza)
March
13,2002 Synopsys Sponsored Silicon Valley Science Fair Championships
February
18-24,2001
National Engineer's Week
Here's your chance to make an impact at your local school,library or
publicity at the mall. The local chapter of National Engineer's
Week
is supported by David Levinson david.levinson@lmco.com
March
3,2001 Synopsys Sponsored East San Jose Science Fair (sciencepalooza)
March
17,2001 Synopsys Sponsored Silicon Valley Championships
Synopsys has generously supported the sciences by paying for both the
team's project supplies AND teachers get a small stipend
for
their efforts. WOW! Now that's
putting
your money where your mouth is to support and retain our valuable
science
teachers.
March
16-18,2001 Botball : High School level Lego Robotics
Terry Grant an IEEE member is supporting these efforts. Contact
him at grant@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov
April
4,2001 The Tech Challenge (support August Boeger Jr High)
August Boeger is a Jr High School in East San Jose that the Santa Clara
Valley has sponsored with Lego Robotics. Contact daffy@ieee.org
for more information.
To be kept abreast of local volunteer
events throughout
the year,join the local Silicon Valley K-12 Egroups
https://groups.yahoo.com/group/scv_ieee_k12/promote
There are many opportunities to participate and make an
impact on our
community and to ourselves as a whole.
But first one must be properly trained in how to conduct
oneself in
the classroom with the school administration,teachers,and
students.
Never, never be so proud as the know it all guy. This will turn
off
everyone. IEEE has developed a website to assist you in
understanding
your proper role in the classroom.
See https://www.ieee.org/organizations/eab/pet/
Surf thru the website and move on to the next stage
below.
Now that you've better undertsood your role and how to
conduct oneself,
it's now time to figure out what to do.
Assess your own skills and see how you fit into existing programs at
the local schools and jumpstart your own special program.
Existing programs are
Lego Robotics
(currently
IEEE Power Electronics Society has donated four Lego Robotics kits to
four
local middle schools: August Boeger Jr High in East San Jose, Castro
Middle
School in San Jose, Suunyvale Middle School, and Kennedy Middle School
in Cupertino.
Botball :
high school level
Lego Robotics that is being co-sponsored thru the KIPR Foundation.
Science Fairs : visit your local
elementary,middle,or high school
and volunteer to be a judge for the schools. They always need
unbiased
judges instead of parents as judges.
Laser Optics: a separate group within IEEE Santa
Clara Valley
has decided to form their own special aim of educating high school
students
in laser optics to recruit them as future engineers. Send email
to bob.dahlgren@ieee.org.
Mentoring Female
Engineering
Students : Of course this is for mature women engineers
to
be a mentor to local female engineering students.
National Engineers
Week :
This program is organized on a national level but is also locally
run.
Of course, the title explains itself. It is across all
engineering
levels and is generally held in February. This year it is
February
18-24,2001. Local chapter is thru David Levinson david.levinson@lmco.com thru
Discover E of SVEC (Silicon Valley Engineering Council).
KNEX Bridge
Building
: Toys are being converted as extensions of learning technology and
applying
them to solve problems. In KNEX's case, they are pushing Bridge
Building
as a simple introduction to how geometric shapes affects the strength
of
structures. This is targeted at elementary school students.
We believe it is appropriate for 4th and 5th grade students. We have
set
aside a small budget for this project. Please email
daffy@ieee.org
if you are interested.
Santa Clara Valley K-12 Education Committee :
Come join us in
talking with fellow engineers,school teachers, administrators, and
students
to determine programs and volunteer to make our membership more
valuable
to the community and to ourselves. See email to daffy@ieee.org
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