Girl Day message spans the globe

Emily Smith
ASME NEWS

Through the Internet and telephone, dozens of engineering organizations and individuals interested in engineering were connected in the first-ever Global Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering that took place in late March.

ASME Past President Sue Skemp, with a student whose definition of nanotechnology earned her a sponsor's gift certificate.

Organized by Engineers Week as an extension of the nationally celebrated Take a Girl to Work Day, the event was divided into 48 30-minute sessions. Those sessions were sponsored by more than a dozen companies in a dozen countries.

Victoria A. Rockwell, senior vice president of ASME's Council on Public Affairs, and ASME Past President Susan H. Skemp led a session on "Projecting and Maintaining Your Voice in a Male-Dominated Environment."

A Girl Day session at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute in March was attended by 100 students. Senior Vice President Victoria Rockwell and Past President Sue Skemp participated.

During their session, which was based at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, 100 students joined in person. In addition to the United States, the countries in which engineer-hosted sessions took place included Australia, Canada, China, India, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates.

For more information about the event, visit www.eweek.org.

 

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