Volume
8, Issue 9: October 21, 2010
NA-YGN
Announcements:
1.
Back
to School means it is Annual Drawing Contest time again! This year Roddy Nuclear is the Power of the Future.
Check out the redesigned website
for rules and planning timeframes on how your chapter can present to 4th
and 5th graders on nuclear science and technology. Last year
over 3,000 posters were submitted reaching students all over North America.
Help us reach out to more students this Fall before the deadline of October 22, 2010 (tomorrow). If you have any
questions contact schooloutreach@na-ygn.org.
2.
Volunteers are needed to support NA-YGN
Career Awareness Seminars. NA-YGN will have a booth at the Society of
Hispanic Professional Engineers Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 29th and
30th,
as well as the Society of Women Engineers Conference in Orlando, Florida
on November
4th and 5th. We are looking for volunteers to help
work the booth and point conference participants in the direction of companies
offering employment in the nuclear field. If you have travel support from
your employer and are interested in helping us out, please contact vp@na-ygn.org.
3.
Register now for the Southeast Regional
Event! The
Entergy Chapter’s of NA-YGN will be hosting the 2nd annual
Southeast Regional Event in New Orleans, LA on November
18th and 19th, 2010, but you don’t have
to be a member of the southeast region to register! If you’d like
to register for this event, please enter the INPO website using your company
log-in and then click this link
to ensure you get registered! If you do not have access to the INPO website,
please email Giovanna
Montaņes-Durand and she can register you for the event. Please see
the event on the NA-YGN calendar to view the agenda. For more
information, contact Patrick Mason, the
event chair.
4.
Check out the Public Information - Video
Committee’s video testimonials on the NA-YGN’s
Youtube channel.
Testimony was collected at last May’s PD Conference in San Francisco,
CA. If you are interested in joining with the Video Committee or
would like to submit a NA-YGN testimonial on one of these topics
(attached), please contact Christine Csizmadia at video@na-ygn.org
or blog about it on www.cleanenergyinsight.org.
5.
The Fall Issue of GoNuke! is available. Check it out here.
Lots of articles about what you can do with your career in nuclear and for your
career in nuclear, including why you should run for an NA-YGN office.
6.
Save the Date for the 2011 NA-YGN
Professional Development Conference! The 2011 NA-YGN PD Conference will
be held from May 8 – 10, 2011 in
Washington, DC. Please contact Adam Borcz at pd@na-ygn.org if you are interested
in volunteering. More information to come.
Misha Swanson
Communications
Chair
North American
Young Generation in Nuclear
p: 410-470-3449