Volunteers needed for UNH Panel Discussion

The Younger Members will be holding a panel discussion for the UNH Student Section in March 2012.  We are looking for approximately five volunteers, preferably ASCE Younger Members (35 or younger), to participate in the panel to field questions from the students about life after college, career decisions, the job search process, etc. 

This is a great opportunity to get involved with the Younger Members and show your support for the ASCE NH Student Section at UNH.

Please contact Logan Johnson at Logan_Johnson@Golder.com if you are interested.

New Horizons Soup Kitchen, Manchester NH

Yesterday, the Younger Members helped pull together Holiday Food Packages at the New Horizons Food Pantry in Manchester, NH.  The packages included holiday foods (potatoes, stuffing, gravy, etc.) and warm socks, hats, scarves or mittens.  All the items were donated to the soup kitchen from a variety of places. 

Special thanks to Paul Armano and Katie Carney for pulling this all together and creating a very successful volunteering event for the ASCE Younger Members and for all the people who participated in the event.

Please visit the New Horizons website to find ways that you can contribute.

ASCE NH December 2011

Yesterday, a number of younger members attended the December 2011 Annual Breakfast Meeting with the new NHDOT Commissioner, Christopher D. Clement, Sr. who got sworn in on September 14, 2011.  The commissioner discussed how NHDOT is currently dealing with budget constraints for the upcoming years, where NHDOT is headed in the next year, and his vision for NHDOT while he is commissioner.

It was a great turnout of ASCE Members and younger members alike!

Here is a preview of upcoming events:

December 8, 2011 - ASCE-NH Younger Members help out at the New Horizons Soup Kitchen in Manchester, NH. (5:30-8:00pm)
December 13, 2011 - Happy Hour at Strange Brew in Manchester, NH (5:30-7:00pm)
January 20-21 2012 - ASCE NH Members participate in the Eastern Regional Younger Member Council (ERYMC) in Nashville, TN.

CYM positions available!

The Committee on Younger Members (CYM) is currently accepting nominations for the following positions:

Coordination and International Member (October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2016)

Publications Member (October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2016)

Corresponding Members (October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2012)

Nomination forms and description of duties for all positions are attached and can also be found on the ASCE website at http://www.asce.org/Younger-Member-Groups/Committee-on-Younger-Members/.  Nomination forms are due to Daryl Morais (dmorais@asce.org) by August 30, 2011.  If you have any questions, please contact Andrés Roda at NJASCE@comcast.net, Nancy Berson at nberson@asce.org or 703-295-6010 or Daryl Morais at dmorais@asce.org or 703-295-6042.

Volunteer Opportunities at the 2012 Annual Conference in Nashville, TN

Are you or other members of your Younger Member Group attending the Annual Conference?  Well, we have an opportunity for you.  The ASCE Global Principles of Professional Conduct (GPPC) Subcommittee is looking for 10 volunteers to help with role playing of ethnics scenarios during their conference session.  The session will be held on Friday, October 21, 2011 from 4:15 to 5:45 p.m. 

If you are interested please watch the Ethicana video at http://www.ethicana.org/ to understand what the role playing is about and the characters.


The deadline to be recognized as a volunteer in the brochure is July 7.


Please email Logan Johnson if you are interested in participating.

ASCE Red Sox Tickets

The Maine Section ASCE has Red Sox tickets for sale for the game on July 10. The tickets are standing room in Terrace B above the Right Field Roof Box, and include an all you can eat buffet. We have the entire terrace reserved for the group so you can move around and enjoy the view and the food! Tickets are $65 each.

All are welcome!

If you want more info, or would like to purchase tickets, please Email Logan Johnson and ask her for the flier for more details.

YMs Hosting Dinner for Timothy Gakarny from the History Channel!

Timothy Galarnyk, the host of the History Channel's "American Infrastrucure" tours the state with a handful of ASCE-NH Members

 

Timothy Galarnyk, the host of the History Channel's "American Infrastructure" has been touring the state of New Hampshire this week in preparation before speaking tomorrow (6/152011) at the NH-ASCE Legislative Breakfast.  The main purpose of the breakfast is to present NH Infrastructure Report Card.  The report card committee will present the findings and needs outlined in the recently updated report card. Invited dignitaries include Governor Lynch, New Hampshire legislators ad the US Congressional delegation from New Hampshire.

What's Going On and What's Coming Up

Hey guys,

Sorry for not posting anything for a while, we have been SOOOO very busy recently so i thought i would just send a quick update and let you know what we have been up to.

January 14-16 - ERYMC - The whole weekend was awesome. There was a whole bunch of ASCE-NH attendees and UNH even had quite the crew there. Paul Armano will up posting a little synopsis of the weekend, soon i hope. so look forward to that coming out.


January 27 - YM Lunch - It was very successful at SEA-Klienfelder! We are planning on having our next lunch together on Feb 24th at PB in Manchester, hope to see you all there. I am probably going to try to get Chris Robert to write something up about how he thinks it went.

Feb 8th - Happy Hour Canceled -We totally duffed the happy hour. but that means that the next one will be that much better, hope to see you in march!

Feb 10 - Student/YM Panel Discussion -UNH hosted the YMs in a Pannel Discussion. the panel consisted of Jason Ayotte, Britt Audet, Marisa DiBiaso, Chris Robert, and myself (Logan Johnson). The whole event went amazingly. It was great to answer the students questions about "real life" and what its like to be a "grown up" and the choices that we have made that have gotten us to where we are.  I am hoping that this can be a yearly event as it seems all of the students got something out of it.

Feb 17 - E-week, Engineers Banquet and Educational Session - This event was amazing, there was over 200 people in attendance including students (college and high school!). It is put on by NHSPE but it a joint engineering event that brings together organizations such as IEEE, ASCE, and ACEC.  Our very own (past-president) Jason Ayotte won Young Engineer of the Year!  From the YM group, congratulations to Jason on his achievements!  There was also a great key-note speaker, Mr. John Clayton, a Union Leader columnist, and even John Lynch, the NH Governor was in attendance.  It was a great night that celebrated all of the achievements that Engineers have made over the year.

We have even more events to look forward to in the coming weeks, some of those include:

• February 22 - Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, 7:00 pm, Concord, NH
  
• February 24 - YM Lucnch at PB, 12:00, Manchester
• March 3 - LRFD for Geotechnical Engineering, Micropile Foundations, 11:30 – 1:00, Concord, NH
• March 10 - YM Happy Hour
• June 10 - Golf Outing, Beaver Meadow Golf Course, Concord, NH

I will try to not let it go so long between posts.  Hope to see you all at our next event!

ERYMC Tomorrow!

ERYMC is tomorrow and I'm getting excited! A bunch of the younger members are driving up together tonight and i brought my camera so hopefully i will remember to take lots of pictures to share with the world wide inter-web!

Portland, here we come!

-Logan