Awards 2014

Congratulations to the Award and Scholarship Recipients for 2014!!!

Board Awards
MIT SWE Lifetime Achievement Award: Nitya Subramanian
Outstanding New Board Member Award: Joanna Han
MIT SWE Future Leader Award: Lynn Takeshita
Outreach Achievement Award: Tony DiBlasi
Most Active Member Award: Nancy Lu
Outstanding Board Member of the Year (Exec's Choice): Jenny Lin

Scholarships
Upperclassmen:
1st Place: Srinidhi Viswanathan, Priya Garg
2nd Place: Pam Cai, Ceili Burdhimo
Honorable Mention: Nancy Lu, Tony DiBlasi
Freshman:
First Place: Joy Yu 
Second Place: Alisha Saxena
Honorable Mention: Maryam Archie

Also, be sure to check out our end-of-the-year video. Have a wonderful holiday season and Happy New Year!

2015 Exec Election Results

We're excited to announce the new SWE Executive Team for 2015! 

SWE Executive Team
President: Margaret Guo
VPs of Outreach: Ceili Burdhimo and Tony DiBlasi
VP of Campus Relations: Nancy Lu
VP of Membership: Lynn Takeshita
VP of Corporate Relations: Maria Stoica
Secretary: Erin Hong
Treasurer: Priscila Cortez
Webmaster: Hannah Pang

We can't wait to see you thrive!

SWEet Week 2014!

Want to learn more about MIT SWE? We're having a week full of events to show you what we're all about!

We have four main departments: Outreach, Corporate Relations, Membership, and Campus Relations. Each night is dedicated to a different department - come to what interests you the most :)

Email swe-exec@mit.edu if you have any questions, see you there!

Career Fair Registration is now open!

SWE Career Fair Banquet
The 2014 Society of Women Engineers Career Fair Banquet will be held 7-9 PM on September 19th, 2014. This event is a relaxed networking opportunity for companies to interact with students in a smaller setting.

Company and student registration is now open! Click here to register.

For Employers:
Company registration is due August 31st. Due to space constraints, only selected companies from the registrants pool will be invited to the banquet. The SWE Career Fair Banquet selection is based on company's diversity, positions recruiting for, and company reputation. Sponsorship level is considered but not the main priority. Selected companies will be notified the first week of September. There will be no cost for invited companies.

For Students:
In addition to the registration form, please email your resume to swe-resume@mit.edu. Applicants who do not submit resumes will not be considered. Both registration and resumes are due no later than September 7th.

Due to space restrictions we cannot accommodate all students registrants at this event. Selected students will be notified in the 2nd week of September. Students who are selected, but are unable to attend must notify the SWE CR team (swe-cr@mit.edu) within 5 days of invitation or be subject to a $10 fine. The dinner itself is offered at no cost to attendees.

If you have any questions, please email swe-cr@mit.edu.

Community Design Challenge - Winners Announced!

And the Winners are…..

After hours of reading and coming across so many creative ideas from around the globe, we have finally chosen the winners of the Community Design Challenge! Winners will win a shopping sprees to their favorite science stores online. Congratulations and thanks to everyone for participating in the USASEF Community Design Challenge!

To learn about the awesome ideas our first place winners had, see below:

Winners:
Grade K-5: Electrolysis of Seawater by Parth Dedhiya
Grade 6-8: Sidewalks and Bike Trails by Michelle Li
Grade 9-12: Eco-Cycling by Aditeya Shukla

Winning essays will be published on this website in September.

USA Science Engineering Festival

MIT SWE Outreach is proud to be an Official Partner of the 3rd USA Science Engineering Festival, to be held April 24-27, 2014 in Washington, D.C.

We will be making circuits that squish! Make a building, a dog, or a monster that lights up and makes noise! The possibilities for creative engineering are endless when you build a sculpture that conducts electricity.

USASEF Info
What is the universe made of? Why did dinosaurs go extinct? What do magic tricks and hip-hop have to with math? What will be the next medical breakthrough? What does baseball have to do with physics? Find out at the 3rd USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo where over 250,000 K-12 students and parents, over 5,000 teachers and over 3,000 STEM professionals will experience the largest celebration of STEM!

Participants include more than 750 of the World's leading professional scientific and engineering societies, universities, government agencies, high tech corporations and STEM outreach and community organizations.

The two-day Expo is perfect for teens, children and their families, and anyone with a curious mind who is looking for a weekend of fun and discovery. Meet science celebrities like Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel’s Dirty Job series, Bill Nye the Science Guy, David Pogue, host of NOVA ScienceNow series on PBS, and Grammy Award-winning alternative music band "They Might Be Giants!"

For more information, visit www.usasciencefestival.org

Apply to be on the 2014 Planning Board!

Are you interested in getting involved with SWE? Do you want to develop your leadership abilities and have fun? Do you like teaching students about math and science? Do you want to get involved with professional development and networking? Do you want to throw study breaks and plan social events? Are you interested in where women stand in the world beyond MIT?

Apply to join the 2014 MIT SWE Planning Board! Descriptions of the available 2014 board positions can be found here.

Anyone is welcome to apply to join our board.

To apply for board, please fill out the form by 11:59pm on Wednesday, February 5th. Please email a website worthy photo of yourself to swe-president@mit.edu. Interviews for positions will be held on Saturday, February 8th or Sunday, February 9th.

Please note: to apply to join the SWE Board, you must be a National member of SWE. Not a member but want to apply? Follow the instructions here.

All board members are required to complete 3 hours of volunteering at Outreach events and attend at least 3 events outside of those that they have planned.

In addition, board members are required to attend all 5 board meetings throughout the semester and the retreat on February 15th.

We look forward to getting to know more about you!