realizing that we are asking for our worth rather than tooting our own horn while asking for a raise, using industry standards for remuneration in creating a pitch for raise, and practicing confidence while delivering the message. The second talk reiterated on how business, financial and strategic acumen are the essential skills to climb up the ladder, but often overseen as women only tend to get mentoring in soft skills like confidence building. During the discussion round, women shared instances of how they thought their raise was delayed just because they didn’t ask for it earlier and how they will now reshape their mentoring relationships to build on business acumen. The event was a hit with its “aha!” moments and takeaways that’ll help the attendees in a professional capacity.
SWE-ECI hosted their Engineer’s Week webinar at various company locations: CIVCO, Collins Aerospace, P&G and Quaker on 19th February over the lunch hour. SWE members at each location met in a conference room, watched TED talks, held discussions and shared their experiences. The topics were on salary negotiation and understanding the gender gap for executive positions. Key-takeaways included realizing that we are asking for our worth rather than tooting our own horn while asking for a raise, using industry standards for remuneration in creating a pitch for raise, and practicing confidence while delivering the message. The second talk reiterated on how business, financial and strategic acumen are the essential skills to climb up the ladder, but often overseen as women only tend to get mentoring in soft skills like confidence building. During the discussion round, women shared instances of how they thought their raise was delayed just because they didn’t ask for it earlier and how they will now reshape their mentoring relationships to build on business acumen. The event was a hit with its “aha!” moments and takeaways that’ll help the attendees in a professional capacity.
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SWE-ECI hosted two events on Saturday, March 23 at the Kirkwood Regional Center in Hiawatha: Senior Girl Scout day, and a K-2 Girl Scout event. This Robotics themed event called "Design Your World" was attended by 55 girls - 7 middle schoolers and 48 girls in Grades K-2. We had 93 people in attendance, about 20 were our volunteers.
Demonstrations were done by a local group called SteamOn - which sponsors First Lego League groups and teaches Robotics to different groups in the CRMetro area, and by Brittany GIvens from U of I, who helped the girls make elephant toothpaste!. The younger girls made binary bracelets, walked through a maze like robots, and learned about the Ozobot. The older girls also made a binary keychain (and had to tie their own knots) and then built and programmed Lego Mindstorms robots. Event sponsors include Hyvee, Collins Aerospace, SteamOn, and Girl Scouts. Everyone went home with a Collins drawstring bag, a t-shirt, a toothbrush with SWENext logo on it, and a few more giveaways, and lots of handouts with good info to take home. They also went home full of pizza! One of the really cool things to watch (besides girls having fun!) was the networking our volunteers were able to do in between their mentoring responsibilities. This network of amazing women has so much to share and teach each other. Awesome! Thank you to all who volunteered and provided leadership for this event. Let's do it again next year! |
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