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<http://na-ygn.org/publicinfo/drawingcontest/2010%20-%20Roddy%2...
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<mailto: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<mailto: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<http://www.inpo.org/onlineregistration/or_OnlineRegistration.asp?... to
ensure you get registered! If you do not have access to the INPO website, please email
Giovanna
Montañes-Durand<mailto:Montanes-DurandPG@INPO.org?subject=Register%20me%20for%20the%20NAYGN%20SE%20Regional%20Event!>
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<mailto:pmason1?subject=I'd%20like%20more%20information%20-%20NAYGN%20SE%20Region%20Event>,
the event chair.
4. Check out the Public Information - Video Committee's video testimonials on the
NA-YGN's Youtube
channel<http://www.youtube.com/user/NAYGN?feature=mhum>.
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<mailto:cmc@nei.org> or blog about it on
www.cleanenergyinsight.org<http://www.cleanenergyinsight.org>.
5. The Fall Issue of GoNuke! is available. Check it out
here<http://www.na-ygn.org/gonuke2/currentissue/currentissue.pdf>. 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<mailto:pd@na-ygn.org> if you are interested in
volunteering. More information to come.
Misha Swanson
Communications Chair
North American Young Generation in Nuclear
e: swanson@na-ygn.org<mailto:swanson@na-ygn.org>
p: 410-470-3449
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