October/November 2010 YM Activity

Hey YMs!

I'm super excited about the Happy Hour at my house tonight. Let me know if you still need directions!  I have been pretty busy with YM stuff recently so here is an update on everything that has been happening:

October 23, 2010 - New Hampshire Tech Fest,Windham NH

Sweet Sweet Civil Engineering booth
to explain to the kiddies at tech fest
what civil engineering is!

I was unable to attend this years tech fest but I am proud to say that we participated.  ASCE had a booth at the NH Techfest that featured these awesome blocks called CityBlocks and had a "bridge building" contest of some sort. Maybe I can get Chris Robert or Jose Lovell to write something up for the techfest. Both of them volunteered their time to help out Jay Hodkinson who was the ASCE member that took the lead in this project.  It was great to see the younger members step up and get involved in NH Youth Programs that promote Math and Science.

October 22-24, 2010 - ASCE National Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada
Paul Armano attending this years National Conference with Birtt Audet (Current ASCE NH President). He has a great write-up about it in the November 2010 Newsletter. I highly recommend you check it out!

October 26, 2010 - Meeting with UNH Students
I met with the UNH ASCE Student Board to discuss their upcoming year and how the YMs can be more involved in their activities. The idea was to be able to get my face to the students and let them know that we really do want to be involved. I know that it is hard to ask for help when you don't know who you are asking, so I think its really important to break that weird barrier between students and YMs.

We also discussed putting together a panel discussion with a few YMs (i want to try to get a good variety of people, i.e. grad school, right out of school, 5 years out of school, EIT, PE, etc) where the students can ask us questions about various aspects of our career to better prepare them for whats out there. Our preliminary date is Feb 8th. if you are interested in being on the panel let me know.

November 3, 2010 - ASCE NH BOD Meeting
Every month we have a BOD meeting to discuss upcoming member meetings, budget, conferences, etc. This months meeting was held in Concord, NH. I updated the Board on all Younger Member activities including the monthly socials ,YM involvement, the upcoming ERYMC, Student Relationships, etc.

I also got to meet with a fellow YM after the meeting and got some great news!

November 4, 2010 - Website Committee Meeting
I met with Susy Shepard (ASCE NH Webmaster) to check out our website and try to update it - long story short - check back to the ASCE website to see the upcoming improvement!

Finally, i just added the "Upcoming Events" Gadget to the sidebar of this blog, but it doesn't let me prioritize the events based on importance, so here are some important things that are coming up:

November 16, 2010 - ASCE November Meeting (click here for more info on this event)
December 9, 2010 -ASCE December Meeting (click here for more info on this event)
January 14-16, 2011 - ERYMC (co-hosted by ME and NH!!) (click here for more info on this event)
 


I think that is all to report for now - like I said, its been a busy month. I will try to con people into getting their picture taken at the Happy Hour tonight so that I can include some sweet pictures in my next post.

Thanks for checking in!

-Logan