KathieK
19-03-2008, 17:35
Verizon Business Sponsors '2008 Global Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering'
24-Hour Virtual Event Highlights Opportunities for Women in Engineering and Technology
Judy Spitz, Verizon Business senior vice president and chief information officer, will kick off the 2008 Global Marathon from the Verizon Corporate Center in Basking Ridge, N.J., March 26 at 12 p.m. Eastern time. The event will end the next day at 12p.m. Eastern time with Spitz, joined by Dean Kamen, inventor of theSegway(R) Personal Transporter, iBOT(R) Mobility System and other medical technology devices and founder of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology).
The film crew for this event was at the Connecticut Regional this past week interviewing our women student members, alumnae and mentors. It will be interesting to see what will make it to the webcast. More info: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-19-2008/0004776690&EDATE= and at http://www.eweek.org.
24-Hour Virtual Event Highlights Opportunities for Women in Engineering and Technology
Judy Spitz, Verizon Business senior vice president and chief information officer, will kick off the 2008 Global Marathon from the Verizon Corporate Center in Basking Ridge, N.J., March 26 at 12 p.m. Eastern time. The event will end the next day at 12p.m. Eastern time with Spitz, joined by Dean Kamen, inventor of theSegway(R) Personal Transporter, iBOT(R) Mobility System and other medical technology devices and founder of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology).
The film crew for this event was at the Connecticut Regional this past week interviewing our women student members, alumnae and mentors. It will be interesting to see what will make it to the webcast. More info: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-19-2008/0004776690&EDATE= and at http://www.eweek.org.