Fy18 Annual Report
FY18 ANNUAL REPORT Always Connecting…Always Engineering. Karen Horting In FY18, SWE’s professional development and FY18 Executive Director and CEO scholarship programs expanded, and further efforts were made to educate and engage the future generation of STEM leaders. In FY18, SWE, volunteer leadership, members, staff and supporters ensured Jonna Gerken that SWE members, and other women in engineering FY18 President and technology, were Always Connecting…Always Engineering. SWE Scholarships Continue to Support Women in STEM At WE17, TE Connectivity Ltd., a world leader in connectivity and sensors, made a $100K contribution to the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) to provide scholarships for women and girls pursing engineering degrees. This generous contribution rounded out more than $830,000 in scholarships awarded to 255 collegiate women in FY18. SWE Comics Educate Future Engineers In FY18, SWE released the second issue of Constance & Nano Engineering Adventure! This educational engineering comic engaged our future generation of engineers, demonstrating how fun solving problems with science, engineering, technology and math can be. To celebrate the launch, SWE and United Technologies held a comic challenge for a chance to be drawn into the issue. Seventh Grade SWENexter, Angel Chukwudi, from Abuja, Nigeria, won the challenge and flew to the United States to join SWE at WE17 for the comic book launch. SWE’s Local Events Expand SWE’s local conference program, WE Local, expanded to seven conferences across the globe in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Phoenix, Arizona; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Portland, Oregon; Providence, Rhode Island; Pune, India; and Prague, Czech Republic. More than 3,000 women in engineering attended the conferences for professional development, career advancement, networking and inspiration.
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