About SWE-NESS....
History & Annual Events-Coming Soon!
Community Involvement and Support
HABITAT for HUMANITY
On May 31, 1997, SWE-NESS members volunteered their time and effort
to help with the Constructive Women Project. We're planning another event
this spring - Come Join Us!
Girl Scout Badge Workshops
Science Sleuth and Science Discovery Badges
SWE-NESS coordinates and conducts annual workshops in the RI/CT regions
to help young girls earn science badges. We received a letter of recognition
from the Rhode Island Girl Scout Council thanking us for our time and effort
in helping approximately 800+ girls receive their badges since 1994. Volunteers
are always needed! For more information, see the Career
Guidance page.
Local Women's Shelters
Donations are collected prior to the Christmas season to help amazing
women and children bounce back from hard times. A new "Reaching Out" program
is coming soon.
Newton's Gig Course
using - Kits In Teaching Elementary Science....
"A
WORLD IN MOTION"
As part of the East Bay Collaborative KITES program and West Bay GEMS-Net
program, NESS members guide teachers in how to relay Newton's Laws to their
students through hands-on experiments. The types of activities performed
have also been used as a basis for an annual competition organized by
SWE-NESS for the elementary students of the KITES and GEMS-Net schools to
kick off National Engineers Week.
SWE-NESS'S 10th Anniversary
In August of 1987 a group of eight women from Southeastern
Connecticut and Rhode Island met to discuss the possibility of chartering
a new SWE section. The group first organized themselves as a satellite
of the Connecticut Section. Their hard work, and the work of many
others who joined them in the following months, finally led to the chartering
of the New England Shoreline Section in May of 1989.
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