REMINDER/Experts Debate and Discuss the Fate and Future for Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering.News Editors/Assignment Desks REMINDER...for Thursday Thursday: see week. (May 22) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
What: Roundtable on "Advancing Women and Minorities in Science and
Engineering - What Remains to be Done?" featuring policymakers
and experts on the issues of furthering inclusion of women and
minorities in engineering, math and science disciplines. The
event is sponsored by ExxonMobil, the Society of Women
Engineers (SWE) and SECME (formerly the Southeastern
Consortium of Minority Engineers).
Where: 2325 Rayburn House Office Building
When: May 22, 2003, 10:00 a.m.
Event Participants: Ed Ahnert, President of the ExxonMobil
Foundation
Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX)
Representative Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX)
Dr. Yvonne Freeman, Executive Director, SECME
Betty Shanahan, Executive Director and CEO,
Society of Women Engineers
Contact: Erika von Hacht, 972/830-2706 or 214/734-6366
Background: SECME SECME Southeastern Consortium of Minorities in Engineering SECME Science, Engineering, Communication, Mathematics, and Enrichment is a minority outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. consortium that focuses on increasing the number of under-represented students who will be prepared to complete college-level studies in science, math, engineering and technology. ExxonMobil Foundation's latest three-year grants (2002-2004) help underwrite To insure; to sell an issue of stocks and bonds or to guarantee the purchase of unsold stocks and bonds after a public issue. The word underwrite has two meanings. SECME's Summer Institute, Leadership Academy and SECME State Scholarships, awarded each year to 17 graduating seniors. SWE SWE Sweden SWE Society of Women Engineers SWE Snow Water Equivalent (snowpack measure) SWE Software Engineer SWE Society of Wine Educators (Washington, DC) SWE Solar Wind Experiment is an educational and scientific society that educates girls and young women in order to increase the number of women who enter the science, engineering and technology professions. ExxonMobil Foundation's latest three-year grants (2002 - 2004) will help fund SWE's "Girls Do Science, Engineering and Technology." This program involves kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be through 12th grade teachers and will develop curricula to help teachers train young women for careers in the sciences. ExxonMobil Foundation is the largest corporate supporter of this program. Each year, ExxonMobil Foundation contributes more than $40 million to education initiatives that foster learning, improve teaching and strengthen academic standards, particularly for those that help advance career opportunities for minorities and women. ExxonMobil Foundation is the primary philanthropic phil·an·throp·ic also phil·an·throp·i·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or marked by philanthropy; humanitarian. 2. Organized to provide humanitarian or charitable assistance: arm of the ExxonMobil Corporation in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The Foundation engages in a broad range of philanthropic activities focusing on the communities where ExxonMobil has significant operations. In 2002, ExxonMobil Foundation, ExxonMobil Corporation, and its divisions and affiliates contributed $98 million in contributions worldwide. |
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