{"id":18600,"date":"2024-11-20T12:19:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T17:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=18600"},"modified":"2024-11-22T11:21:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T16:21:07","slug":"elizabethtown-college-students-attend-society-of-women-engineers-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/elizabethtown-college-students-attend-society-of-women-engineers-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Students Attend Society of Women Engineers Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

A group of Elizabethtown College students and a faculty chaperone recently attended the annual Society of Women Engineers (SWE) conference, WE24: Together We Rise<\/a> in Chicago from Oct. 24 to 26.<\/p>\n

The trip to the world\u2019s largest women in engineering and technology conference was made possible thanks, in part, to a generous donation from two friends of the College.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was incredibly empowering and inspiring being surrounded by so many women in male-dominated fields, especially with so many of these women being people of color,\u201d Munia Kamal \u201927 said. \u201cIt is motivating to see their accomplishments despite challenges they face in their field.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kamal attended the conference with fellow Blue Jays Megan Fisher \u201927, Jacquelyn Nickel \u201925, and Madison Stewart \u201925, along with Elizabethtown College Assistant Professor of Engineering Shannon Clancy. All students who attended are members of the Etown student chapter of SWE, which was approved as an official chapter<\/a> in 2023. The students were able to learn from engineers in the industry about their experiences while exploring career interests and opportunities they weren\u2019t previously exposed to. This year, the conference had more than 18,000 attendees.<\/p>\n

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(L-R): Clancy, Nickel, Stewart, Kamal, and Fisher in front of the Bean in Chicago.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cAttending the SWE Conference allowed me to learn so many interesting things and hear from a variety of different people,\u201d Stewart, who made a video<\/a> about her experience at the conference said. \u201cI was able to get helpful advice to better lead our chapter as well as hear from female engineers who were also brand new in the industry and learn how they handled their early careers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The group attended sessions and panels on various topics, including resiliency in the workplace, professional skill development, networking, and financial literacy. Students also had the chance to attend informational sessions about internships and career opportunities.<\/p>\n

Students also connected with leaders of other college SWE chapters about retention of members, event ideas, and funding options.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cThe conference was incredibly beneficial for the students and myself,\u201d Clancy said. \u201cI am truly thankful to see how much our students benefited from this experience and how they were able to attend due to donor support.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to their work at the conference, the group explored the city, visiting the Shedd Aquarium and the Bean and enjoying Chicago-style pizza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of Elizabethtown College students and a faculty chaperone recently attended the annual Society of Women Engineers (SWE) conference, WE24: Together We Rise in Chicago from Oct. 24 to 26. The trip to the world\u2019s largest women in engineering and technology conference was made possible thanks, in part, to a generous donation from two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":18611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,775],"tags":[70,1944,1665],"class_list":["post-18600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus","tag-engineering","tag-school-of-engineering-and-computer-science","tag-society-of-women-engineers","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18600"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18620,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18600\/revisions\/18620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}