Thursday, February 18, 2016

Upcoming events:



Nanotech Rice REU


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Dear Community College Faculty,
We are contacting you from the Rice Office of STEM Engagement (www.rstem.rice.edu) at Rice University to invite all your science, math, and engineering students from Lone Star College to attend an informational open house on the Rice Campus on Wednesday, February 24th, 2016 from 6:30 – 8:30 pm.  At the Open House, they will receive information about participating in the Summer 2016 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Nanotechnology at Rice. This will be an opportunity for students to ask questions regarding the program to our staff and previous REU participants. Food and parking validations will be provided.
We encourage your students to have filled out their application for the REU programhttp://www.rstem.rice.edu/reu prior to attending this informational session, but we will also have staff available to assist them with the application process that day in case it is needed.
Please ask your students to register at http://www.rstem.rice.edu/events or via http://goo.gl/forms/IXMvXIHI1Gby Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016 to attend this event so that we can provide them with parking and room information, and to ensure we have enough food for everyone!
We appreciate your help in disseminating this information to all your STEM students. If you have any questions please contact Gabriela Galvan, our Program Manager, at ggalvan@rice.edu
We are looking forward to seeing as many of your students there!
Best wishes,
Carolina






Friday, March 4 noon - 1:00pm LIB 225

​Mark your calendars to attend this informative presentation.  

Everyone welcome - interested students invited to attend!

Wolfram Technologies in Education and Research

 by Brenda Marshall

Friday, March 4th
Noon-1:00 pm, including Q&A
LIB 225


This talk illustrates capabilities in Mathematica 10 and other Wolfram technologies that are directly applicable for use in teaching and research on campus. Topics of these technical talks include:

·         Enter calculations in everyday English, or using the flexible Wolfram Language
·         Visualize data, functions, surfaces, and more in 2D or 3D
·         Store and share documents locally or in the Wolfram Cloud
·         Use the Predictive Interface to get suggestions for the next useful calculation or function options
·         Access trillions of bits of on-demand data
·         Use semantic import to enrich your data using Wolfram curated data
·         Easily turn static examples into mouse-driven, dynamic applications
·         Access 10,000 free course-ready applications
·         Utilize the Wolfram Language's wide scope of built-in functions, or create your own
·         Get deep support for specialized areas including machine learning, time series, image processing, parallelization, and control systems, with no add-ons required

If you haven't seen Mathematica lately, you will be surprised to see how suitable Mathematica is for projects and course examples in any STEM, business and economics, or liberal arts field. Attendees with no prior experience report that this talk helps with getting started using Mathematica language and workflow.  With improvements like the new free-form input and expanded areas  like finance, statistics, engineering, software development, and  image processing, even the most advanced users report learning quite a bit from Mathematica technical talks. All attendees will receive an electronic copy of the examples, which can be adapted to individual projects. I’ll also provide a free trial download.

Current users will benefit from seeing the many improvements and new features of Mathematica 10 (http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-10/), but prior knowledge of Mathematica is not required.


Thursday March10th 12:30-1:20
Balloon Car Race in CLB 118/116!

 If you have a shoebox to donate, drop it off in CLB118!



Thursday March 24
NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) fall 2016 recruitment- come learn about current opportunities at NASA!  12:30-1:20, CLA 116, Pizza served.




March 29, 2016 - Tues
6-8:30 p.m in SCC conference center
Women in Engineering series

Keynote speaker, Jill Jarvis, Electrical engineer, blogger at BigKidsSmallCity.com, mother of 3 (under 6 years) and author of Entrepreneurial Secrets of Garbage Man Joe, How to Raise Hard Working Kinds in an Instant Gratification World.

Colette Lewis, Mechanical engineer, project manager—power generation, turbine specialist—FFG Strategic Consulting, LLC.

Tammy Ahlgren, President of MATTCO, oilfield equipment manufacturing company.

Technical Careers & Skilled Trades
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Hosted by Lone Star College Office of Workforce Education and Corporate Partnerships.
Technical Careers & Skilled Trades Career Fair
Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Time:  3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.*
VIP Veteran Admission only beginning 3:00 p.m.

Location

Lone Star College-North Harris
Student Services Building (SSB)
2700 W.W. Thorne Drive,
Houston, TX 77073




April  14, 2016 - Thurs
6-8:30 p.m in SCC conference center
Women in Engineering series
Cheryl Ash Simpson,  Mechanical and Industrial engineer and manager. She is also a cancer survivor who has directed a documentary on her experience, Sunshine, Noodles and Me.



May 4, 2016 - Wed
6-8:30 p.m in SCC conference center
Women in Engineering series
Keynote Speaker,  Dr. Priscilla Milam Smith, Global Lead for Technology, British Petroleum and former dean at LSC-Kingwood.

Tracy Borgmeyer:  Chemical engineer, mom and blogger at SheLovesScience.com, and author of She Loves Science:  A Mother’s Guide to Nurturing her Daughter’s Curiosity, Confidence and Creativity.

STEM scholarships:
file:///C:/Users/Doug/Downloads/stem_scholarship_announcement%20(00000002)%20(1).pdf



Another scholarship!
http://buickachievers.com/