Volume 8,
Issue 6: August 19, 2010
NA-YGN
Announcements:
1.
Please welcome our newest chapter of NA-YGN! We have two new
local chapters to add to our NA-YGN family! There is a chapter kicking
off next month at DTE Energy – Fermi, and a new chapter underway at
AREVA-Richland.
2.
Northeast Regional Conference – Today! August 19-20 in Worcester,
MA. The workshop theme is “Where Do We Go >From Here?
Ensuring A Bright Future For Nuclear”. Contact northeast@na-ygn.org
3.
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.
4. Local
Chapter Leads teleconference, September 1 from 3 -
3:30pm EST. This teleconference
is for all NA-YGN Local Chapter Leads. Agenda and call-in number will be
sent to all Local Chapter Leads prior to the call. Questions?
Contact usa@na-ygn.org
5.
The 2010 Knowledge Transfer Survey is ready. If you want to see
what recommendations to the nuclear industry came out of the survey check
it out. Questions on knowledge transfer? Contract kt@na-ygn.org!
6.
Conserving Tomorrow
newsletter is looking for help. They are working on their next issue and are
looking for authors. If you would like to help please contact conservation@na-ygn.org.
7.
Be heard! NA-YGN’s
Clean Energy Insight pro-nuclear advocacy website is looking for
contributors. Topics of discussion include but are not limited to nuclear
news posts, commentary on current industry events, and showcasing your NA-YGN
Chapter’s nuclear advocacy activities. Interested? Contact pi@na-ygn.org
or cleanenergyinsight@na-ygn.org
with any questions.
Misha Swanson
Communications
Chair
North American
Young Generation in Nuclear
p: 410-470-3449