Registration for EWeek 2011 is now open.

School teachers or administrators or site EWeek requestors:
Please use this form to request visits from EWeek volunteers to your school. We appreciate you taking the time to fill the form out and leave a contact phone number with your school address.  Volunteers:  Please enter your name in the Volunteer Name field. If you are both Volunteering and signing up a school that isn't yet signed up, please fill out the Volunteer name AND all required school name fields.

Fran O'Sullivan is our featured guest for our 2011 EWeek Kickoff meeting in the EAFC (Building 400) on the IBM RTP main site at 9:30am on Thursday 3Feb2011. Fran has been a very vocal proponent of K-12 Education initiatives at IBM and with Lenovo. We hope you can come and hear for yourself Fran's enthusiasm in helping motivate our regional NC-EWeek volunteers during this 100th anniversary of IBM's founding.  Please plan to join us to hear Dr. Dave and to pick up your EWeek supplies.                                          

It's that exciting time of the year again.  EWeek, or Engineers Week, is ready to start.  It's time to talk with our students.  Whether you are in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, computer science, business, or other fields, your career is an exciting, sharing time for our students.  We can expose them to their future career possibilities just by sharing our careers/jobs with them.   We can help our students because once you help them, it is hard to walk away or say no.  Please help our nation alleviate a talent gap that we face in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, the international language of innovation. Please plan to join us in the Employee Activity Fitness Center  on Thursday, February 3rd at 9:30 am, along with being able to register for a school(s) to visit, to get supplies, and to get training if needed.  Please remember that you can always use your own sharing ideas with our students.

9:30 am brief introductions and EWeek history and Fran O'Sullivan
10:00 - 10:45 am show 4 experiments below (multiple setups)
10:45 - 11:30 am show 4 experiments below (multiple setups)

Supplies pickup is ongoing during the 10 am to noon time frame

- Nose Dive
http://www.tryscience.org/experiments/experiments_nosedive_athome.html

- Spaghetti Bridge
http://www.tryscience.org/experiments/experiments_begin.html?spaghettibridge

- Puff Mobile and Marshmallow Tower
http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/index.html

- Handouts (please also check NC-EWeek Files)
    - Talking Points for EWeek Orientation
    - 2008 Engineering Brochure
    - Quick Guide for Success
    - additional airplanes samples for another experiment

- These videos may be accessed through Youtube:
    - The Answer to our Future  (energizes IBM volunteers): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB94jz2VWg4
    - Do You Believe in Magic? (to show to middle school students): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6qpeDsePkc