To finish of E-Week, SWE-ECI helped with the 2013 Iowa Championship for FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) at the University of Iowa. Each year a new challenge is presented to teams of 7-12 graders to solve by building a robot. This year’s competition, “Ring It Up!,” was a lot of fun to watch. A total of 48 teams from five states competed in two divisions for the privilege of advancing to The World Championships in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 24-27.
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On 6 February 2013, Rockwell Collins hosted the first Rocket Women event in the University of Iowa. The objective of this event was to create an opportunity for University of Iowa’s business and engineering students to mix, mingle and network with the successful women in finance and engineering from Rockwell Collins in a more relaxed and social setting.
This year three SWE-ECI members supported the Iowa Regional Future City Competition again. For the special award, Rowena Aburto and Alyssa Reinhardt were looking for the team that used the most aesthetic diversity in the materials used to build the model of their city. SWE-ECI volunteered at SWEET, a career conference for middle school and high school girls on December 18th. The conference was organized by Workplace Learning Connections and hosted by Kirkwood Community College.
On December 5th, SWE celebrated its birthday at Daniel Arthur’s, 821 3rd Avenue Southeast in Cedar Rapids, with cocktails, plentiful food, learning about STEM outreach opportunities in the area. There were approximately 30 people in attendance and it enhanced a great environment for networking.
What a conference this year! WE12, the 61st annual conference for Women Engineers, was held in Houston, Texas at the George R. Brown Convention Center November 7 through 11. Record-breaking attendence was recorded: a total of 6,400 attendees!  Rockwell Women Touring Houston Facility during WE12 The SWE-ECI section hosted the first Girl Scout outreach event for the year in mid-May, focusing on green energy and STEM-awareness for a group of 8 middle-school girls. We hosted the event at the Saint Pius X community room, and did two modules about green energy - one was about windmills, and the other was energy exchange through Rube Goldberg machines.  
Once again, SWE-ECI supported the panel discussion at the High School Conference sponsored by the University of Iowa SWE Section. This year’s panel included Amber Johnson, Debarati Ray, Katie Morin, and Rebecca Reck from SWE-ECI and a couple others. The panel fielded questions from the students about what it is like to have a career in engineering.
Two professors from the University of Iowa presented a technical presentation of their research to interested SWE members.
This year three members of SWE-ECI supported the Iowa Regional Future City Competition. For the special award, Stacy Woodson and Rowena Aburto were looking for the team that used the most aesthetic diversity in the materials used to build the model of their city. 
SWE-ECI Special Award winner Namaka Urben
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