Women In Optics

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Women In Optics

• Established Spring 2008
• Board Members
• Jennifer Harwell
• Martha Dawsey
• Amber Young
• Sara Landau
• Advisor Gail Varin
• Structure Board Committees
• Members
• All members of the Optical Sciences Community are
  invited to become members and encouraged to
  participate in events regardless of membership
  status
• 35 registered members (men, women grads,
  undergrads, and professors)

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Club Objectives

• To create a forum to exchange ideas and
  information
• To promote the disciplines of math, science and
  optics
• Global networking
• Recruitment
• Local section of Women In Optics
• To establish a scholarship

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Spring 2009

• January 29 Brown Bag Lunch with Dr. Ursula
  Keller
• February 4 WIO general meeting
• February 17 Reception with Mari Edmund
  (canceled)
• February 19 Presentation by Susan Houde-Walter
• February 24 25 Industrial Affiliates Workshop
  
• March 6 7 Recruitment Weekend
• March 12 Brown Bag Lunch with Mary Turner
• March 28 Women's Leadership Conference
• March 28 Expanding Your Horizons
• April Brown Bag Lunch TBA
• Bowling with undergrads date TBD

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Outreach Events

• Math Science Technology FunFest, Nov 5-7
• Volunteer at hands-on workshops for 6,000 middle
  schoolers
• MESA Saturday Academy, Nov 15
• Optics Demonstrations for 150 high school
  students and parents

• Expanding Your Horizons in Science and
  Mathematics
• March 2008, March 2009
• Host Optics Workshop for middle and high school
  girls
• Demos, Hands-on
• Take home activity
• Outreach Steering Committee

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Mentoring

• 2009 Womens Leadership Conference
• Targets undergraduate women in the sciences
• Undergraduates
• Develop relationships through social activities
  and mentoring
• Specific committee focused on event planning and
  how to communicate effectively with the
  undergraduate women
• Brown Bag lunches
• Susan Houde-Walter, CEO of LaserMax, Inc
• Starting a Company in Tough Times, (gt 40
  attendees!!)
• Dessert afterwards issues specific to being a
  woman in optics
• Professor Ursula Keller, Institute for Quantum
  Electronics, Swiss Federal Institute of
  Technology, Zurich
• Fall Workshop Panel of Accomplished Women in
  Optics
• Sponsored by CIAN

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Networking

• Brown Bag Lunch Series
• Monthly
• Women professionals, female faculty, etc
• Research interests, career path, life balance
• Conference Attendance
• Frontiers in Optics October 2008
• Minorities and Women in OSA Luncheon
• Photonics West 25-29 January 2009
• Brochures at the College of Optical Sciences
  booth
• Presentation Reception with Persis Drell,
  Director, Stanford Linear Accelerator
• Industrial Affiliates

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Social Events

• Kick-off Event Ice Cream Social
• Bowling with Female Undergraduates
• End-of-semester potluck

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Funding and Other Support

• Graduate Professional Student Council
• Club Start-up funding
• Event Funding
• OSC
• Education, diversity funds
• SPIE, OSA
• Outreach grants, activity kits
• Speakers
• Industrial Affiliates!!

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Thank you to our Sponsors!!

• Edmund Optics, Inc
• Sponsored a Reception with Marisa Edmund, VP of
  Marketing and Communications, Edmund Optics, Inc
• LaserMax, Inc
• Sponsored Susan Houde-Walters travel to OSC to
  visit WIO
• Breault Research Organization
• Sponsored dinner for Susan-Houde Walters talk

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WIO for Industrial Affiliates

• Mentoring
• Outreach
• Donate supplies, equipment, demos, optics kits,
  etc
• Guest speakers
• Be a speaker, transportation/hotel, refreshments
• 1000/speaker, 4000/semester
• Event sponsorship
• i.e. Bowling with the undergrads, expected cost
  200
• Conference sponsorship
• Hotel, travel, registration
• Contribute to scholarship fund
• Your ideas!

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