The Santa Clara Valley section is very active in community outreach. We have 3 annual, large scale events including GetSET, our week-long engineering program for high school girls.
SWE outreach events such as WOW! That’s Engineering!, Designing Women, and GetSET all aim to give girls that first introduction to engineering. Through engineering activities, lab and company tours, and just being around real life female engineers, we open the eyes of otherwise unbeknownst girls and give them that first taste of engineering.
Below are short descriptions of our annual outreach events. For more information on a specific event, please visit the links on the right.
Wow! That’s Engineering!
Description: 1-day event filled with workshops, engineering lab tours (if at a university), and panel of female engineer speakers
Target Audience: high school girls
Duration: one day
2011-2012 date: TBA
Chair: Virginia Tam
Designing Women
Description: 1-day event filled with workshops and engineering lab tours (if at a university)
Target Audience: middle school girls
Duration: one day
2011-2012 date: TBA
Chair: Alya Elhawary
Discover-E
Description: Volunteers sign up to visit a local classroom (elementary to high school) and share their experience as an engineer as well as conduct engineering activities or workshops in the classroom.
Target Audience: elementary, middle school, high school students (boys and girls)
Duration: one week
2011-2012 date: Engineer’s Week, last week of February
Chair: Victoria Villar
GetSET
Description: week-long program where girls stay in a University dorm and participate in engineering workshops, engineering olympics, and graduation ceremony. Students commit to this program for all 4 years of high school
Target Audience: high school girls of under-represented ethnic backgrounds
Duration: one week
2011-2012 date: TBA, always conducted in the summer
Main website: http://www.getset.org
