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November 14th Fundraiser-
Special Thanks To: Chipotle for donating tortillas.
Estimated Profit: $520, if you have not submitted your receipts, please do so by Tuesday, November 20th.
OctoberFest- Oct 24th
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San Marcos- March 3rd, 2007
The Project
Build a ‘prototype’ structure. It must be:
8.5” tall
Support a tennis ball on top
Made entirely out of popsicle sticks and masking tape
Top must be flat enough to place weight on top.
SAC presented the popsicle stick tower, UTSA presented the marshmallow tower...yadda yadda yadda.
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2007 MAES Symposium in New Mexico
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2007 MAES National Leadership Conference in El Paso
2007 NLC in Review
By: Megan Planas
What I learned can be summed up in three words, leadership, networking, and hard-work. The conference itself can be broken up into three parts; there were sessions, where speakers would teach different values that would be needed as a good leader, there were meals or meeting sessions, where we would sit down with representatives from various corporations and organizations that were looking to hire engineers and scientists, and there were the project times where we would work with our groups on the designated project.
The sessions were lectures given by different professionals from places like the CIA to Proctor and Gamble, who makes various items from detergent to Pringles. I learned the key components to a good leader, how to inspire people. During the session about goal setting, I learned that checking on your goals every day and physically writing them down, helps better achieve goals. I think the most helpful session was given by AHETEMS, where a representative explained exactly what his company looked for in a resume, the difference between an objective and a goal, and the best way to write a business plan. This lesson really helped with the project the conference gave us to do, and it also helped me to improve my resume writing. There were also sessions to better understand the problem with the Latino decline in research, engineering and scientists and how leaders are needed to bring people into the field, and to become successful leaders in their fields.
Networking was another important emphasis at this conference. Besides hearing the representatives speak about leadership, we had the opportunity to sit down at meals and during sessions to meet face to face with them. It was essentially like a pre-interview, where we got to learn about the company and they got to learn a little about us. My favorite part of networking was learning about internship opportunities across the nation. I also had the opportunity to network with students from other MAES chapters and learn about different service projects they are doing, and various internships they had participated in.
I had already known about hard-work, but this conference redefined the word for me. We were assigned a project and told to present a PowerPoint presentation, a business plan, and a cover letter in an allotted time- much as I would do when presenting research to investors. Besides learning how to write professional business plans, and speak in front of hundreds, we learned team work. At first it was difficult, it was quite a bit of work for the time they allotted us, there wasn't much sleep to say the least. My team worked meals, breaks, walking times, mornings, nights, sessions, and the hard work paid off. All of our work resulted in us being awarded 2nd place out of 17 teams from around the nation, and a $300 scholarship!