2016, SWE & You! - January 30th

Less than two weeks until our 2016, SWE & You Event!  We still have a few spots left, if you'd like to attend.

Have you wondered how to become more involved in SWE Detroit? Have you been involved as an officer in SWE-D and wondered what is available at a Region and Society Level?  Do you know what path to take to get there?  Are you aware of how much SWE impacts your career in a positive way?
Get answers to these questions and much more at our January seminar: 
2016, SWE, and You!  Learn about the opportunities at every level of SWE; how you can achieve these roles; and how SWE supports you in your career

When: Saturday January 30th from 11am to 3pm
Who: Anyone interested in being more involved with SWE
Where: The Farmington Library Conference Room A
​(32737 Twelve Mile Rd, Farmington Hills, MI 48334)
Response: Please email Jessica Swan (jlengwis@gmail.com) by January 26th
Food: Lunch will be provided at 11am

Ann Arbor Membership Circle - February Event

Please join us at the first Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti/Plymouth Membership Circle event of 2016!!

Date: Wednesday, February 3

Time: 6:00-8:00PM (trivia night starts at 7)

Location: ABC Microbrewery in Ypsilanti (a.k.a. Corner Brewery-see address below, this is NOT the Arbor Brewing Company Brewpub in downtown Ann Arbor)

RSVP: Email me at avakib@gmail.com if you are planning to attend (no deadline)

The address is:

ABC Microbrewery

720 Norris St
Ypsilanti, MI 48198

January RO Book Clud - Rescheduled

January Meeting Rescheduled

Event: Royal Oak Book Club

Date: January 24, 2016

Time: 4:00 - 6:00 PM

Location: Vinotecca, 417 South Main Street, Royal Oak, MI 48067

Cost: Everyone pays for themselves

Parking: Free on Sunday

Point of contact: Michele Marion michele.marion@swe.org

Other info:

Discussing The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

By Nina Teicholz

Volunteer Judges needed for Future City Competition- Monday January 25

Future City Competition is back again!! And we need VOLUTEER JUDGES!

What is Future City?

Future City is a cross-curricular educational program where students in 6th, 7th and 8th grades imagine, design, and build cities of the future.  Over four months, students work as a team with an educator and volunteer mentor to design a virtual city using SimCity software; research and write an essay addressing this year’s theme; build a model of their city using recycled materials; write a brief narrative promoting their city; and present their city before a panel of judges at a Regional Competition in January. Regional winners go on to represent their region at the national competition in Washington, DC, in February.

Volunteer Info

Date: Monday, January 25, 2016

Location: Suburban Collection Showplace at 46100 Grand River Avenue, Novi

Time: 8:15 am – 11am (invited to stay for lunch also)

What: You will be judging the projects and help give out the SWE sponsored award

If you are interested in volunteering for the event, please contact Anne Dancy at anne.dancy@fcagroup.com

GIRLS MAKING AWESOME DECISIONS - Volunteers/ Participants needed

Do you live near Macomb and have one evening free to work with young girls who are interested in successful careers?  We have a fun event for you!

There is a program called “GIRLS MAKING AWESOME DECISIONS”  on Friday January 29th, 2016 5:30 – 8:30PM at the Dakota 9th Grade Center (21055 21 Mile R oad - Macomb, MI 48044).  The night will feature workshops for 4th-8th grade girls to learn about possible careers, learn self defense, and many more fun things.  please refer to the flyer for more details.

If you are interested in volunteering for the 3 hour event, please contact Anne Dancy at anne.dancy@fcagroup.com

Volunteers Needed to present at Career Fair

Are you interested in presenting at a Career Fair?  Clarkston High School wants you to share your job experience with their students!  See information below for details.  If interested, contact SWE VP of Outreach (Anne Dancy) at anne.dancy@fcagroup.com.

WILL YOU SHARE YOUR CAREER EXPERIENCES WITH CHS STUDENTS?

Everybody has a story about how they ended up in their current profession. We want Clarkston High School students to hear yours! Are you in the position you always dreamed of? Or did your career journey lead you in a totally different direction? 

WHAT

Please accept this invitation from the CHS PTSA to participate in Career Day, a program planned specifically for 11th-grade students. The program is intended to help juniors explore career options as they prepare for senior class scheduling and college entry. Our goal is for the students to interact personally with professionals in a wide variety of careers to learn about what it takes to prepare for and be successful in those professions.  

WHEN 

Career Day is scheduled over two days to give more than 600 juniors an opportunity to interact with different professionals within specific career pathways. It's being offered on these dates and times:

•   Tuesday, January 12, 2016        _____7:10 a.m. to 10:35 a.m.               _____10:40 a.m. to 2:25 p.m. 

•   Tuesday, February 23, 2016        _____7:10 a.m. to 10:35 a.m.               _____10:40 a.m. to 2:25 p.m. 

Speakers may participate at one scheduled time, all day or both days. Light refreshments and lunch are provided both days. 

FORMAT

Three speakers are scheduled from specific career pathways to speak to three separate groups of students within an allotted time slot. (Students change rooms every hour.) Each speaker is asked to prepare an 8-10 minute presentation describing:

1.       what it takes to perform your chosen career,

2.    the education (college degree/vocation/certification) you earned to enter your field and 

3.       how the choices you made in high school (or wish you had made) affected your future. What would you do differently?

A Q&A session will follow in which speakers might also be prepared for questions about:

•   Other careers you could pursue with your degree/vocation/certification

•   Salary range for your profession

•   How much high school REALLY prepared you for the real world

•   The amount of time your job allows for your family

•   What you like most/least about your job

•   Recommendations for entering your field

WHY

When students have these kinds of candid conversations with professionals like you, it helps them make meaningful connections between what they’re learning in school and the tools they’ll need to be successful in the workforce. Visual aids help them make those connections, too. Any hands-on activity or product that might give students a better view into your “world of work" is highly encouraged!

Upcoming SWE-Detroit Membership circles (February and March 2016)

SWE-Detroit Membership Circle for Novi/Northville/Farmington Hills - February 2016 

 Where: You decide - Bahama Breeze or Granite City Food & Brewery (respond to doodle poll*) 

 When: You decide - Tuesday 2/16, Wednesday 2/17, or Thursday 2/18 - 6 PM (respond to doodle poll*) 

What: Enjoy dinner with fellow SWE peeps 

RSVP: By Monday February 15 to  Katie at ktamelio@hotmail.com  

Poll link: http://doodle.com/poll/26h78y7xspus9bre 

*I will close out the doodle poll on Sunday February 14th.

SWE-Detroit Membership Circle for Novi/Northville/Farmington Hills - March 2016 

 Where: Uptown Grille (http://www.uptowngrille.com) 3100 E. West Maple, Commerce Twp., MI 48390 

 When: You decide - Tuesday March 1 or Wednesday March 2 - 6 PM (respond to doodle poll*) 

What: Enjoy dinner with fellow SWE peeps 

RSVP: By Monday February 29th to  Katie at ktamelio@hotmail.com  

Poll link: http://doodle.com/poll/7ta7skaeyhgdgrsi 

*I will close out the doodle poll on Sunday February 28th.

January Royal Oak Book Club

Event: Royal Oak Book Club

Date: January 10, 2016

Time: 4:00 - 6:00 PM

Location: Vinotecca, 417 South Main Street, Royal Oak, MI 48067

Cost: Everyone pays for themselves

Parking: Free on Sunday

Point of contact: Michele Marion michele.marion@swe.org

Other info:

Discussing The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

By Nina Teicholz

Book Review of My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

Book Review by Irina Sullivan

My Beloved World by the currently serving Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor is a genuine and insightful account of the personal and professional challenges she faced leading up to her career as a judge. We learn a lot about this uniquely strong, fiercely independent, and undeniably high achieving woman who from a humble Bronx upbringing by a widowed mother went on to become the first Latina Supreme Court Justice in U.S. history.

Despite Sotomayor’s many achievements, however, the tone of the book is one of honest sharing, self-reflection, and above all encouragement and inspiration to the reader. Sotomayor offers a great insight of her own thoughts from early childhood on, such as her initial decision to succeed in academics and her drive following every successive accomplishment to proceed to the next level of learning, development, and intellectual growth. In short, she never stops honing her skills, adding tools to her toolbox, and working to expand her worldview.

This book, however, is not a how-to manual to becoming a Supreme Court Justice. For one, the book ends twenty years ago when Sotomayor first became a judge and therefore does not detail the critical years of her journey to the Supreme Court nomination. Nevertheless, as Sotomayor remarks in the preface, the question posed to her most often is how not to give up on such a seemingly far­fetched goal of achieving one of the most powerful posts in the nation if not the entire world. To that the Justice admits that such a goal did not occur to her except “as the remotest of fantasies” and instead offers that “you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true” and that “the proper measure of success is not how much you’ve closed the distance to some far-off goal but the quality of what you’ve done today.”

My Beloved World is a unique contribution to the writings by members of the Supreme Court and that’s a good thing ­ the better we understand the genuine motivations of the people behind the High Court decisions the less we feel at the mercy of the law and instead take responsibility for bringing about a more just world.