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NMNWSE
encourages women to enter into, and develop their careers in, science, engineering, and allied professions through annual technical symposia, outreach, and local chapter activities.
Who We Are trifold brochure
NMNWSE EYH conferences, licensed from the EYH Network, feature small hands-on technical careers workshops designed to encourage young women to consider technical careers.
Each of the roughly 1000 New Mexico teens that attend these annual conferences receives a copy of the NMNWSE Careers CD with our Careers Book and other career information, participates in workshops where they get a taste of what it is like to work in various technical fields, and meets women role models from those fields. There are also programs for educators and parents who accompany the students to EYH. Please encourage teens in your area to attend, and also please consider volunteering to help or sponsor - see the webpages below for conference contacts plus registration information etc, or email the NMNWSE Board if you'd like to help, sponsor, or have questions.
 All 2012 NMNWSE EYH Conferences
28 Jan 2012, Albuquerque, grades 5-9
25 Feb 2012, Silver City, grades 5-8
25 Feb 2012, Las Cruces, grades 6-8
21 Mar 2012, Los Alamos, grades 8-10
4 May 2012, Santa Fe, grades 4-8
 National Girls Collaborative Project Comes to New Mexico!
The vision of the National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) is to bring together organizations throughout the United States that are committed to informing and encouraging girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The NGCP began in 2002 as the
Northwest Girls Collaborative Project through funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). In 2004, NSF awarded additional funding to replicate the NGCP model. To date, 22 Collaboratives, serving 34 states, have been established as a part of the NGCP, facilitating collaboration between more than 8,800 organizations serving more than 5.3 million girls.
In April 2011, the National Girls Collaborative Project received funding from the National Science Foundation to reach additional states identified as high priority areas and new Collaboratives are beginning to organize. New Mexico was identified in the proposal as a high priority area and Young Women in Computing (YWiC) has been approved to host Collaborative activities as the Convening Organization in New Mexico.
The structure of NGCP Collaboratives consists of a Convening Organization and a Collaborative Leadership Team. The Convening Organization works with the Leadership Team to carry out the activities of the Collaborative. The Leadership Team includes members of organizations that are also invested in girls in STEM-CS and are able to contribute to the project's success.
NMNWSE member Cheri Burch was appointed as chair of the NMNWSE Ad-Hoc Comittee to follow NGCP activities and coordinate with NMNWSE efforts as appropriate.
Cheri will be representing NMNWSE on the NCGP Collaborative Leadership Team, allowing NMNWSE the opportunity to provide statewide leadership in initiating and expanding STEM-CS activity in New Mexico, as well as the opportunity to be a recognized partner in a National Science Foundation grant.
You can contact Cheri via the Board email, or directly at ctburch@unm.edu.
2012 NMNWSE Board Elected
The full slate for the 2012 NMNWSE Board was elected on Dec 10. There were no write-ins.
We can still use volunteers to serve on committees and otherwise help with board duties.
For the list of 2012 Board Members, see the Board webpage.
To contact the 2012 board, email us at NMNWSE Board, or contact any board member.
2011 Annual Meeting
A combined 2011 NMNWSE Annual Meeting and first meeting of the 2012 Board was held on Saturday, Dec 10 at the UNM Valencia Campus - for more details see http://nmnwse.org/AM/2011.
The minutes will be posted when available on the Minutes page.
If you would like to give input for 2012 meeeting planning, please contact the board or fill in the annual meeting interest survey.
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