Executive Council

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CAREER GUIDANCE CHAIR and NEWSLETTER EDITOR

Sue Anderson

Sue is a 1989 charter member of SWE-NESS and has been the driving force behind NESS's Career Guidance Committee since 1994. She established the elementary school outreach Engineering Design Competition: Can Crusher Contest and the middle school outreach Women in Science and Engineering Essay Contest. She worked with other NESS members in the design and instruction of a hands-on physics (Newton's Gig) course (using A World in Motion kits developed by the Society of Automotive Engineers) for teachers associated with the Kits in Teaching Elementary Science (KITES) and Guiding Elementary Math and Science Network (GEMS-Net) Programs in Rhode Island. Sue has received high recognition for her incredible effort in the design and coordination of the Junior Girl Scout Science Badge Workshops - Science Sleuth, Science in Action/Science in the World Around Us, Science Discovery and Making It Matter. She is also the Co-Chair of the National SWE Girl Scout Committee.

Professionally, Sue has left her job as Senior Development Engineer at Raytheon Company in Portsmouth, RI to pursue a career of developing hands-on science programs for children and adults working with children. She has developed several themed programs with science activities for the Girl Scouts, working with inner city kids from 5 to 14 years of age. Her plan is to develop hands-on science programs for home-schooling and educators, available through her web site in the future. She is a Master Trainer for the Girl Scouts and was the GSRI Council program coordinator for the national Girls at the Center (GAC) Program, a themed hands-on science program for inner city girls and adult partners, developed by The Franklin Institute and GSUSA. She was also the GSRI Council program coordinator for the national Girls, Families and Communities Together in Science (GirlFACTS) Program, developed by GSUSA. Sue earned her Electrical Engineering/ Computer Science degree from the University of Connecticut, an MBA in Management from Bryant College and a Certificate in Interior Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. In addition to her academic achievements, she received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Rhode Island for her twenty-plus years of educating young people in science and engineering as a volunteer.

When Sue isn't working so hard for SWE-NESS or the Girl Scouts, she is a freelance Interior Designer and enjoys sailing, quilting, gardening, sailing, reading, piano, and needlework. She is a newlywed, and has a very patient engineer husband who puts up with numerous boxes of science activities all over the barn and house for SWE and GS workshops. (We still haven't figured out how she manages to find the time but she does!)