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| K-12 POCs | (back to top) |
 Danielle Domingue, from CAS Consulting and Services, Inc., is the overall point-of-contact (POC) for Post and other Danielle serves on our Post Board as the K-12 Program Coordinator and co-chair of our K-12/ College Outreach Committee. She also has helped out in our Community Outreach Program as the lead for the Post's support of San Antonio's Basura Bash (San Antonio River Cleanup) project. Danielle can be reached at (210) 248-9083 or danielled@casengineers.com
Andrew is an active participant in SAME and Post activities and has served on the SAME Student Council and helped with our support of National Engineer's Week and local area robotic competitions. He also was a mentor at the 2007 SAME Air Force E&C Camp. Andrew can be reached at (210).377-3085 ext 263 or Andrew.Gayley@ch2m.com |
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The San Antonio Post’s K-12 Outreach Program focuses on getting children excited about engineering, math, and science with the hope that someday they will pursue careers as scientists, doctors, lawyers, and hopefully engineers. The Post selected several programs to support over the years with not only financial support, but also with volunteers from our members. We have outlined thirteen different programs throughout the year and provided POCs so you can plan ahead to participate and help us get the word out to others who may be interested in participating. Please let our K-12 Program Coordinator, Danielle Domingue, at (210) 248-9083 or danielled@casengineers.com, know if you are interested in participating and/or would like to participate in the future. The recurring K-12 programs that the Post supports are shown below.
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| What if I participate in an activity not listed…what do I do? | (back to top) |
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We depend on our member’s continued involvement in the community to help us earn the Outreach and Communication Streamer for our Post. If you’ve participated in other community outreach events focused on either K-12, or even college students, to discuss engineering, science, or math related topics throughout the year, then please let us know. All you need to do is send an e-mail to Danielle Domingue on the topic/subject of the activity, when/where it was held, who you briefed, and the POC’s information (that way we will have POC’s contact information so maybe the Post can also support that event next year) at danielled@casengineers.com.
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| SAME Summer Engineering & Construction Camps | (back to top) |
Location/Timeframe: Army - Vicksburg, MS (10-16 June 2007); AF - Air Force Academy, CO (5-11 July 2007); Navy/Seabee - Port Hueneme, CA (29 July-4 August 2007) Participation: High school student applicants and Post Young Member (YM) volunteers as Camp Mentors Participation Level Required: Up to 11 days and travel to the Camps is required Description: See SAME Summer Camp webpage at http://posts.same.org/camps/.
Post Commitment: The 2007 SAME E&C Camps have finished up. Our Post sponsored five (5) high school students (one through the Tulsa Post) to the SAME Air Force, Army and Navy Camps and two (2) of our Post young members as mentors to the Air Force Camp for the 2007 program. Click HERE to view the 2007 USAFA Camp newsletter.Click HERE to view photos from the mentors and students attending the USAFA Camp. What a great investment in our youth - just another example of your Post Education & Mentoring funds being put to good use !!!
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| San Antonio Pre-Freshman Engineering Program (PREP) | (back to top) |
Location/Timeframe: Summer 2007 Participation needed: Post Volunteers as Guest Speakers Participation Level Required: 1-2 hours…during a weekday Post Commitment: TBD Post Event POC: Franz Schmidt, (210) 271-0925 or franz.schmidt@earthtech.com Event POC: Mr. David Abundis from Palo Alto College, (210) 921-5192 Description: The Pre-freshman Engineering Program, founded by Dr. Manuel Berriozábal in 1979, identifies achieving middle and high school students with an interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and provides an academic curriculum to increase their potential for careers in these areas. PREP was founded in San Antonio in the 1980s and is now a national program. Its goal is to motivate middle school students, particularly minority and female students, to pursue a degree in engineering or scientific fields. PREP has active programs each summer at most local colleges and universities, including UTSA (main and downtown campuses), St. Phillips, Trinity, Palo Alto, Incarnate Word, and St. Mary’s. Over 1,200 students completed PREP locally in 2006. They actively recruit speakers each summer, and the SAME community would be a good resource to provide students exposure to a wide variety of engineering and scientific fields due to the experience of our public and private sector members. This is a positive and convenient way for us to reach out to the K-12 community here locally. More information on the program can be found at http://www.prep-usa.org/portal/main/.
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| High School Career Days | (back to top) |
Location/Timeframe: TBD (as required) Participation needed: Post volunteers as Guest Speakers Participation Level Required: 2-3 hours…during a weekday Post Commitment: Guest speakers during the year Post Event POC: Danielle Domingue, (210) 248-9083 or danielled@casengineers.com Event POC: Mr. George Williams, 675-7712, glwms@swbell.net Description: SAME is committed to helping students learn more about engineering. We ask our members to provide time to be guest speakers at local high schools to talk about what they do as an engineer and what engineers do for their communities. The local post is teaming up with Mr. George Williams an individual member who has been very active in the local community and has many points of contact at local high schools. Mr. Williams is looking to increase his list of persons willing to be guest speakers. If you are interested in participating, please contact the event POC..
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| SA BEST | (back to top) |
Location/Timeframe: October 2007 (TBD) Participation needed: Mentors, Judges and Volunteers Participation Level Required: 6 weeks & ½ day…during the weekdays SAME Commitment: TBD SAME POC: Danielle Domingue, (210) 248-9083 or danielled@casengineers.com Event POC: Mr. Terry Grimley from Southwest Research Institute, (210) 522-2353, tgrimley@swri.org Description: San Antonio Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology (SA BEST) is an organization which attempts to expose area high school students to science and engineering. SA BEST’s focus is to try and influence students into studying the sciences or engineering as they move on to college. Every year (Sep-Oct) SABEST provides a game scenario and box of parts to each team, and then they have 6 weeks to construct a robot to compete in that game. Each team must also document how they came together as a team and accomplished their goal (i.e., program management). The SA BEST program needs mentors to help the teams as they work on their robot and game plan. SA BEST can use referees for the game, and judges to evaluate the teams’ documentation; however, there are many other "jobs" that need to be done to make this happen. If you are interested in helping to build our future scientists and engineers, then visit the SABEST website at: http://www.sabest.org. You can sign up at the volunteer link on the web-site, and someone from the organization will contact you. The SA BEST competition is a contest held annually to inspire and interest students in the fields of science and engineering. With guidance from adult mentors, local teams of students design and build a remote controlled machine to accomplish a specific task. The students are given a box of raw materials from which to build the machine and 6 weeks to design and construct it. The task of the robot is kept secret until Kick-off Day, when all the teams are told what the robot is required to do. On Competition Day, all schools will compete head-on with each other in a thrilling science-fair-turned-sports-event. Several teams advance to the regional Texas Best competition and compete with the BEST robots from other areas.
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| San Antonio GIS Day | (back to top) |
Location/Timeframe: November 2007 (Location TBD) Participation needed: Post volunteers for presentations. Sustaining members sponsoring exhibit booths on GIS Participation Level Required: 1 day…during a weekday Post Commitment: $1000 sponsorship planned plus other support TBD Post POC: Danielle Domingue, (210) 248-9083 or danielled@casengineers.com Event POC: Ms. Lani Cabico from Brooks City-Base’s Environmental Office, (210) 536-2654, lani.cabico@brookscity-base.com Description: SAGIS Day showcases the new and groundbreaking ways that local and regional organizations are using Geographic Information Systems technology. Held each year on the Wednesday of the National Geographic Society’s Geography Awareness Week, GIS Day is a global event that celebrates GIS technology. A major focus of the event is GIS education for children. Middle and High School groups are sponsored by local companies/organizations and the San Antonio Area GIS Users Group to attend the event and participate. GIS Day is part of the National Geographic Society's exciting new initiative, Geography Action, which is a year-long initiative encompassing key educational achievements such as GIS Day and Geography Awareness Week. Each year this initiative will have a different focus. The theme for 2007 is "Discovering the World through GIS." In addition to events such as GIS Day and Geography Awareness Week, there will also be many worldwide activities supporting geography action, with their goal being to engage people in learning and caring about geography. In previous years the Post sponsored the event with a $1,000 donation to support the program and had sustaining member firms and individual members actively participate in the event. The SAGIS Day’s website is http://www.sagisday.com/.
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| MATHCOUNTS® with TSPE | (back to top) |
Location/Timeframe: 17 Feb 2007 - organized by the Texas Society of Professional Engineers (TSPE) Participation needed: Volunteers for Proctoring and Grading the Exams Participation Level Required: TBD SAME Commitment: Volunteers SAME POC: Danielle Domingue, (210) 248-9083 or danielled@casengineers.com Event POC: Volunteers should contact John Krauss, P.E., 210-375-9000 (x358), or jkrauss@pape-dawson.com to RSVP for the event. For further information on MATHCOUNTS, contact Mr. Ray Medrano from Pape Dawson, (210) 375-9000 x390, rmedrano@pape-dawson.com or Robin Simmons 375-9000 (x429) Description: MATHCOUNTS® is a nationwide program that promotes math excellence for 6th, 7th and 8th grade students and combines the efforts of education, business, government and the technological community. The program is usually held in the spring and holds both a local level competition at UTSA and a regional competition in Austin. MATHCOUNTS is a math skills coaching program based on higher thinking skills development with a series of progressive competitions at local, state and national levels. It motivates students to do well in math and recognizes and rewards them for achievement. The program also gives the math teachers an incentive to excel in their classrooms. The program has more than 17,000 volunteers who participate annually. MATHCOUNTS has received two White House Citations as an outstanding private sector initiative. SAME National is also supporting this program. For further information, see: http://www.same.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3319. The local MATHCOUNTS program requests the participation of judges for a half day event where you grade the students’ problems to assist in determining the competition’s winners. For more information on the program, you can contact the TSPE MATHCOUNTS® event POC.
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| National Engineers Week | (back to top) | ||||||
National  Engineers’ Week is an annual event to bring to public attention the work and contributions of our nation's engineers. Engineers Week was founded in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers. It is always celebrated at the time of George Washington's birthday, as our nation's first President, he was a military engineer and land surveyor. Since 1951, beginning with President Truman, U.S. Presidents have sent special messages of appreciation to the engineering profession in recognition of the week. At its beginning, National Engineers Week included a few scattered government proclamations, dinners, and speeches. It has since grown to involve tens of thousands of engineers in a variety of community outreach activities, such as technology and education exhibits at shopping malls, to presentations of student scholarships. Special events, focused on engineering, take place in almost every city across the country. San Antonio events are generally organized by the Texas Society of Professional Engineers (TSPE).
Location/Timeframe: 18-24 February 2007 Participation: Post and its sustaining members were involved in San Antonio activities throughout the week. Participation Level Available:
Post Commitment: Post supported a $500 sponsorship for San Antonio's Engineer Week activities Post Event POC: Danielle Domingue, (210) 248-9083 or danielled@casengineers.com Event POC: Mr. Ed Pruske from TSPE, (210) 342-9377, ed.pruske@psiusa.com Description: Representatives from sustaining members, CH2M HILL and LNV Engineering, attended the Proclamation Breakfast on 21 February. Members from CH2M HILL also planned presentations and a tour for high-school students on major civil engineering projects around the City. The Post held a special joint meeting with the Construction Management Association of America on 22 February. LNV Engineering also sponsored a hole for the Engineers Week Scholarship Golf Tournament on 23 February and had a Post member at the Engineer of the Year Banquet on February 24. CH2M HILL also held a balloon powered vehicle competition within their office.
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Andrew Gayley, from CH2M HILL, assists Danielle with and serves as the point-of-contact (POC) for Post's SAME E&C Camp program.
