Minutes:
As many of you are aware, we had a meeting on Wednesday, June 15.
Here are some highlights from that meeting.
OCCRA was the hot topic of the night… What is it? (We`re very
excited to learn more.. Please send me an email if you were involved
in it, I`d love to compile all of your experiences and make them
available to other girls.) We're going to contact OCCRA to get some
ideas - we'll be keeping you posted.
We asked what do you want to hear in future chats? That led us to a
discussion on scholarships and internships (You'd be surprised how
much is available to FIRST girls!), and we plan to elaborate on this
more in future chats.
Other ideas that came up that you want in chats are on-line
workshops in Robotics, having mentors speaking to us on Colleges,
and doing an on-line version of Women in Science and Technology
(having experts come and tell us "what it`s like").
We will be starting polls on what the time and date should be for
our chats, as well as how often.
For now, we would like your input on the following question:
Would you prefer if these chats were conversational (we would
present a topic, and get your feedback on it) or talking to
an "expert in the field" (we would have women in specific fields
speak and answer your questions), or both? Please respond to Julia
Metzler at
g.magoolia@gmail.com with your comments.
We'll be doing a mentor chat later this month - and scheduling
another RCU student chat in July. Stay tuned!
Thanks Julia for writting it up.