It is time to seek candidates for FY21 SWE-Detroit Leadership.  Qualified nominees will be placed on the ballot for our election in March.    

 
With this email we are opening the call for candidates and look forward to your self-nomination or recommendations of fellow SWE members as leaders for the Section.  Nominations are due Friday, February 21, 2020.
 
Below is a list of open officer positions and questions which must be answered for the nomination, and at this link are descriptions of the positions. Please note that Officer Positions are voted for in March and Chair Positions are filled after the election (chair positions are not voted on). The FY21 term is July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021.


Open FY20 Officer Positions:
·  President-Elect (president elect will be FY22 president and FY23 past president)
·  VP Membership
·  VP Professional Development
·  VP Outreach
·  Secretary
·  Treasurer
 
Filled FY21 Officer Positions:
·  President: Amanda Mohan (President Elect for FY20 will be FY21 President)
·  Past-President: Maryssa Weir (President for FY20 will be FY21 Past President)

 
Return the questionnaire for your nomination to FY20 President, Maryssa Weir at maryssa.weir@gmail.com


If you have any questions or are interested in joining our leadership team but can't decide which role would be a good fit, please feel free to contact me and I'll be happy to discuss each opportunity with you in more detail!
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Nomination Questions 
1. Provide Contact Information of Candidate 

Name: 
SWE Member Number: 
Phone: 
Email: 

2. Prepare a Candidate Biography and Statement 

The candidate's biography and statement should be under 400 words and may contain: Candidates SWE History, Current/Past Work Experience, Education, Hobbies, and vision and goals for the position they are considering. 

3. List SWE resume/service (what other SWE positions or committees have been held): 

4. Indicate position(s) interested in:
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​SWE 4 Life Fiscal Year 2020 Status: $2000 out of $2500 goal
Still need: ~$3,000 to meet final program goal of $25,000 for endowed scholarship.
#SWE4Life
CLICK HERE to DONATE NOW! Enter in “SWE 4 Life” in the “Instructions to Seller” or comments box, go to www.swedetroit.org and Click on the PayPal Donate Button, or mail a check to Society of Women Engineers – Detroit, PO Box 2978, Southfield, MI 48037.
 
Happy New Year! We had a wonderful response so far in FY20. Many thanks again to our wonderful Life Members in Detroit! We are now $500 away from getting the full match and reaching our goal for establishing the Detroit Section’s SWE 4 Life Endowed Scholarship. Please consider one of our endowed programs when thinking about your next donation. Our program is a great candidate for any extra funds you may receive from tax returns or bonuses. We are $500 away from a lifetime of supporting the engineering pipeline and diversity in the workforce. In the shorter term, this means providing $1000 to a STEMinst at the Detroit Section’s 69th section anniversary instead of our 70th!
 
As usual, if you know any of the SWE Detroit Life Members, please help us communicate to them.
 
Not a Life Member? No problem, anyone can donate to the fund (some have already). Every little bit helps, so we encourage you to donate if you can. Your donation is tax deductible.
 
The program will be tracked separately from the Member Solicitation Program and have its own levels:
                        Diamond            $1000 +                                   
                        Sapphire            $ 500 to $ 999
                        Emerald             $ 250 to $ 499
                        Quartz                $  50 to $249                          
 
Contributions will be tracked yearly and the level will be determined based on accumulated contributions received by SWE Detroit.
 
To donate online to any of our programs, go to www.swedetroit.org and look for the Donate Button on the site for Paypal.  After you submit your information and input your donation amount, you will have the opportunity to designate your donation. Please input in the text field to allow it to be allocated appropriately: “SWE 4 Life Endowed Scholarship or Life Members Endowed Scholarship”, “Josie E. Rewald Memorial Scholarship”, “Torch Award”, “Past Presidents Scholarship”, specify another program, or the general fund.
 
HUGE THANK YOU to our supporters who have donated so far to our programs (updated as of 1/23/20):
SWE 4 Life Scholarship (Goal: $25,000)
Diamond
Jessica Mattis
Laurie Ramsay
Dawn Tilbury
 
Sapphire Level
Brooke Voto
Ally (company match in honor of Brooke Voto)
Tina Poquette
Birgit Sorgenfrei
Jenny & Robert Morikawa (in honor of Josie Rewald, gifted $100 in honor of friend Cheryl Williams)
 
Emerald Level
Lisa & Christopher Rewald (in honor of Josie Rewald)
Michele Marion
Susan Cischke
Lisa Henn
Kristine Lott
Terri Shipp
Jessica Swan
 
Quartz Level
Miriam Breslauer
Katie Amelio
Lisa Purvis
Cathi Kohn
Barabara Ferry (in honor of Josie Rewald)
Katherine Hillberg (in honor of Josie Rewald)
Kristine Barnes
Rosa Abani
 
If you have any questions, are interested in supporting the SWE Detroit SWE 4 Life Program, or creating your own endowed program to build a pipeline or legacy to benefit SWE Detroit Programs, please contact Lisa Purvis, Michelle Pascual, Anne Kamenju, Jessica Swan, or Jennifer Morikawa at swe_detroit@swe.org. 

WHAT: January Book Club Meeting - Discussing "Mindless Eating" by Brian Wansink
WHEN: Sunday, January 26 from 4-6 PM
WHERE: Berkley Common, 3087 Twelve Mile Road, Berkley, MI 48072
WHO: SWE-D book club meetings are open to everyone! No prior experience is necessary and, if you didn't get to the book this month, no worries, come anyway and hear what others thought!


https://www.amazon.com/Mindless-Eating-More-Than-Think/dp/0553384481/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=mindless+eating&qid=1578075236&sr=8-2  

WHAT: December Book Club Meeting - Discussing "Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion" by Elizabeth Cline
WHEN: Sunday, December 15 from 4-6 PM
WHERE: Berkley Common, 3087 Twelve Mile Road, Berkley, MI 48072
WHO: SWE-D book club meetings are open to everyone! No prior experience is necessary and, if you didn't get to the book this month, no worries, come anyway and hear what others thought!

https://www.amazon.com/Overdressed-Shockingly-High-Cheap-Fashion/dp/1591846544/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=over-dressed&qid=1575376652&sr=8-2  
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Competition Day: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 

We are looking for engineers and technical professionals to serve as judges for the 2020 Michigan Regional Future City Competition. The role of the judge is to draw on their expertise and resources to fairly evaluate the team's efforts. Judges are needed to evaluate three components of the competition:
 

Virtual City Designs Using SimCity Software

Students insert their city's details into a slideshow presentation template. Judges are needed to remotely review these pdf presentations in late December and early January.

City Essays

Students write a 1,500 word essay that describes the unique attributes of their city and provides a solution to this year's challenge - Clean Water: Tap Into Tomorrow. Judges are needed to remotely evaluate essays in late December and early January.

Models and Presentations

Judges are needed on Competition Day (Tuesday, January 28, 2020) to view models and listen to presentations. Training for this phase of the competition is at 8 a.m. that morning. The actual judging is from 9-11 a.m. 

To Volunteer

If you are interested in participating as a judge, please register at the link below and be sure to choose the Michigan Region. You may volunteer to judge one or all of the components. 

https://secure.futurecity.org/JudgeBin/Judge/Enroll?region_kid=20

For additional Information about Future City, visit esd.org or futurecity.org, or contact Leslie A. Smith, CMP at 248-353-0735, ext. 152, or lsmith@esd.org.

https://secure.futurecity.org/JudgeBin/Judge/Enroll?region_kid=20

WHAT: November Book Club Meeting - Discussing "White Fragility" by Robin DiAngelo
WHEN: Sunday, November 24 from 4-6 PM
WHERE: Berkley Common, 3087 Twelve Mile Road, Berkley, MI 48072
WHO: SWE-D book club meetings are open to everyone! No prior experience is necessary and, if you didn't get to the book this month, no worries, come anyway and hear what others thought!

We are just over half way to our goal for the endowed Rewald/Perazza Torch Award as previously introduced in this blog post.

This award was created to honor two SWE Detroit members who we lost in 2016 - Josie Rewald and Lisa Perazza - who had a passion for mentoring and supporting women in technology.

The Torch Award is symbolic in allowing us to continue Lisa and Josie’s love of “passing the torch” to future generations.  After one year of interest, the endowment would provide $1,000 (annually) to fund the recognition program, which would be split amongst two teachers who are focused on mentoring young women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). The recognition would enable continued support of their mission in the form of engineering kits for the awarded teachers, who might not otherwise be able to obtain such resources.  
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SWE 4 Life Fiscal Year 2020 Status: $0 out of $2500 goal
Still need: ~$5,000 to meet final program goal of $25,000 for endowed scholarship.
#SWE4Life 

CLICK HERE to DONATE NOW! Enter in “SWE 4 Life” in the “Instructions to Seller” or comments box,or mail a check to Society of Women Engineers – Detroit, PO Box 2978, Southfield, MI 48037. 

​SWE’s Life Members in Detroit we are grateful for you! With the large support of our Life Members, we are only $5000 ($2500 from individual and corporate contributions) away to complete our SWE 4 Life Endowed Scholarship Program. If we keep up the pace, we are less than 1 year away from finishing our third endowment! This means another $1000 for life available by our 69th section anniversary instead of our 70th!
 
If you know any of the SWE Detroit Life Members, please help us communicate to them.
 
Not a Life Member? No problem, anyone can donate to the fund (some have already). Every little bit helps, so we encourage you to donate if you can. Your donation is tax deductible.
 
The program will be tracked separately from the Member Solicitation Program and have its own levels:
Diamond            $ 1000 +                                   
                        Sapphire            $   500 to $ 999
                        Emerald            $   250 to $ 499
                        Quartz               $   50 to $ 249                          
 
Contributions will be tracked yearly and the level will be determined based on accumulated contributions received by SWE Detroit.
 
To donate online to any of our programs, go to www.swedetroit.org and look for the Donate Button on the site for Paypal.  After you submit your information and input your donation amount, you will have the opportunity to designate your donation. Please input in the text field to allow it to be allocated appropriately: “SWE 4 Life Endowed Scholarship or Life Members Endowed Scholarship”, “Josie E. Rewald Memorial Scholarship”, “Torch Award”, “Past Presidents Scholarship”, specify another program, or the general fund.
 
HUGE THANK YOU to our supporters who have donated so far to our programs (updated as of 1/2/19):
SWE 4 Life Scholarship (Goal: $25,000)
Diamond
Jessica Mattis
Laurie Ramsay
Dawn Tilbury
 
Sapphire Level
Brooke Voto
Ally (company match in honor of Brooke Voto)
Tina Poquette
Birgit Sorgenfrei
Jenny & Robert Morikawa (in honor of Josie Rewald, gifted $100 in honor of friend Cheryl Williams)
 
Emerald Level
Lisa & Christopher Rewald (in honor of Josie Rewald)
Michele Marion
Susan Cischke
Lisa Henn
Kristine Lott
Terri Shipp
 
Quartz Level
Jessica Swan
Miriam Breslauer
Katie Amelio
Lisa Purvis
Cathi Kohn
Barabara Ferry (in honor of Josie Rewald)
Katherine Hillberg (in honor of Josie Rewald)
Kristine Barnes
Rosa Abani
 
If you have any questions, are interested in supporting the SWE Detroit SWE 4 Life Program, or creating your own endowed program to build a pipeline or legacy to benefit SWE Detroit Programs, please contact Lisa Purvis, Michelle Pascual, Anne Kamenju, Jessica Swan, or Jennifer Morikawa at swe_detroit@swe.org.