You’re invited to the first Outreach Committee meeting of the fall semester! Join us to discuss programming, ways to get involved, and ideas for new workshops. Hope to see you there! When: Tuesday, Sept. 22nd at 5:30pm Where: Integrated Sciences Building Rm 145 Dinner will be provided, register today!
Outreach
Eureka! Summer Workshops highlights!
July was a big month for outreach! This was the 3rd summer of the Eureka! program! Eureka is a collaboration between Girls, Inc. of Holyoke and UMass Amherst College of Natural Sciences. Middle school and high school aged girls from Holyoke and neighboring communities come to UMass all day through the month of July to participate […]
Outreach Event on Friday May 29th @ UMass with 8th graders
Does your research address sustainability? The 8th graders of the Four Rivers Charter School in Greenfield MA are studying the question: what technologies (and ideas) represent the best hope for our future? It’s a question that focuses on sustainability in all the ways we can imagine we need to think about it. When: Friday May 29th from […]
SWE Junior Engineering Girl Scouts Day Saturday April 25th
The Society of Women Engineers are in need of a couple more volunteers for Junior Engineering Girl Scouts Day this Saturday, April 25th and would love to have some of the GWIS women help out. This year the girl scouts are building solar cars and learning about alternative energies. Each volunteer will primarily work with […]
Upcoming Outreach Activities
Sign up to participate in upcoming GWIS Outreach events! Where: the Amherst Regional Middle School (just 2 miles away from campus)! Workshop: We’ll be doing a cool STEM activity with an 8th grade after school science club on a Tuesday from 3 to 4 pm. To sign up and see available dates, see form here. Sound […]
Outreach Committee Meeting TOMORROW, 10/7
Interested in working with students outside of UMass? Trying to make a difference with a wider focus? Join the GWIS Outreach comittee for a short info session on planning or participating in future outreach activities When: Tuesday, October 10th at 5:30 Where: In the Campus Center, by the Yum! Bakery Registration is NOT required – […]
GWIS’s Eureka! Summer Workshops were a success!
This July marks the second summer of the Eureka! program, which is a partnership between Girls, Inc. of Holyoke and UMass’s College of Natural Sciences (CNS). Approximately 50 rising 8th and 9th graders from the Holyoke area come to UMass all day, 4 days a week, for 4 weeks. They participate in STEM workshops created […]
Outreach Workshop with Eureka! on Saturday May 17th at UMass
Volunteer for outreach with teenage girls from Girls Inc. of Holyoke! What’s In Your Water? We will be doing a water treatment workshop with the girls from last summer! This water quality workshop aims to demonstrate the need for the treatment of water to make it potable. We need volunteers to help work with the girls. Send an […]
Extracting DNA with Urban League of Springfield!
Middle school Students from the Urban League of Springfield came to UMass on Thursday, April 24 and Friday, April 25 to tour the campus of UMass Amherst and participate in STEM-related activities. GWIS outreach members Arianne Bazilio, Amy Ryan, and Katherine Lownsbery had a blast working with the students using simple chemistry to extract DNA […]
GWIS team for UMass Dash&Dine 5k race
The Graduate Women in STEM will be running and walking as a team in the fifth annual Dash&Dine event at UMass to support the local community, the Amherst Survival Center, and Neighbors in Need. Support Amherst! Run or walk with GWIS! When: Saturday April 12, at 10:30am (race starts at 11am) Where: Meet at the […]
