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Upcoming Events
Madison Meetup at the Boneyard – Dog Park and Biergarten
Date: May 9, 2024Time: 4:15PMEvent Info: Come join your fellow SWE-WI members at The Boneyard, Madison’s Dog Park and Biergarten on Thursday, May 9th!! Meet at the Boneyard around 4 to socialize and bring your pup along as well to get the zoomies out! While the Boneyard is a dog park, dogs are not required…
Global Business Travel Tips & Tricks
Date: Thursday, May 2nd Time: 12PM – 12:50PM Location: Virtual (fill out survey to receive Google Meet invite https://forms.gle/PLJ1KT9SqQbqYPok6) Event Description: Join SWE-WI over lunch on May 2nd for a discussion on working with global teams. SWE-WI members will share their experiences collaborating virtually with global team members, their stories of international business travel, and their list of tips & tricks. There…
WoW Invites You to Celebrate Women in Maritime!
Join WoW (Brunswick’s Women on the Water Employee Resource Group) and Society of Women Engineers (SWE) for an in-person event, co-hosted by the SWE – WI Chapter to celebrate International Day for Women in Maritime. Our goal is to inspire, encourage and celebrate women in the fields of engineering, operations and technology by hosting a…
Contrapt Volunteers – Waukesha and Milwaukee
April 26, 20249:30AM – 12:00PM Volunteers are needed for the Contrapt Middle School Competition. Judging will occur between 9:30 am-12 pm on Friday, April 26 at WCTC in Waukesha or Friday, May 10 at MSOE Kern Center in Milwaukee. SWE-WI awards the Most Innovative Step Award, instructions and a rubric will be provided to judges…
SWE Wisconsin Section 50th Anniversary Celebration – Recap
On Saturday, December 2, 2023, forty-four professional and collegiate Society of Women Engineers (SWE) members and supporters headed to the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee campus, to the same building the Wisconsin professional section of SWE was chartered in, 50 years ago! With long gowns and suits, attendees gathered for a celebratory luncheon, networking bingo and…
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Spring Forward
Spring Forward is an annual professional development event that SWE Wisconsin hosts each spring. Its a great opportunity to connect with professional and collegiate SWE members from around our region, learn from the great talent in our Section, and celebrate achievements from that fiscal year.
Registration Information
Spring Forward 2024 is coming up on April 13th in La Crosse, and registration is live! Spring Forward is SWE-WI’s professional development day where members come together to network and have the opportunity to improve their professional development skills through workshops and sessions. If you are interested in attending, please register at https://form.jotform.com/swe_wi/spring_forward by March 31st. Registration will include a networking breakfast, options for panels and sessions on professional development, and Celebrate SWE-WI, which includes a box lunch during a presentation of scholarships and awards.
Spring Forward 2024 Schedule
| Registration 7:00-8:00 Breakfast & Welcome 8:00-9:00 | Welcome to Trane Campus Donna Bossman, Director of Engineering Excellence | |
| Keynote Speaker 9:00AM – 10:00AM | Workshop on Emotional Intelligence Sandy Lamb | |
| Block 1 10:15AM –11:00AM | Panel Discussion – Negotiation | Ignite your Curiosity – Arduino Circuit Creation Programming Demonstration Michigan Technological University SWE Outreach |
| Block 2 11:15AM–12:00PM | Panel Discussion – Career Pivots | Microaggressions in the Workplace Rebecca Schruender |
| Block 3 1:15PM –2:00PM | Benefits of Networking Julie Bates | Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) Michal Riege |
| Block 4 2:15PM – 3:00PM | Executive Presence – How to Know, Grow and Show Yours Christine Nicometo & Dr. Julie Unite | |
| Block 5 3:15PM-4:00PM | Optional Speed Networking/Mentoring SessionAndrea Falasco |
A few more details about each of our breakout sessions which you will be able to choose one in blocks 1-3:
- Women are typically not natural born negotiators and when put in a situation where you need to negotiate, either for sale, a higher salary, more vacation, we sometimes don’t know where to start. Our panel will lead us in a discussion on tips and tricks for helping to navigate the art of negotiation.
- Michigan Tech is going to ignite our Curiosity on SWE outreach and lead us through an activity in circuit creation that they have developed to empower girls.
- Another interesting panel we have, is a discussion on career pivots with several women sharing their career history and making the jump to something completely different.
- Julie Bates will share how networking goes far beyond finding your next job opportunity and how networking can help you grow your career and expand your knowledge through the exchange of ideas and perspectives.
- Michal Riege will explain how to use EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) to run a manufacturing company. Michal’s company currently uses this system to set the strategic direction for the organization and helps to get traction on projects.
- Christine Nicometo of TechForum Consulting and Dr. Julie Unite from Ascend Talent Strategies will describe the essential components of executive presence and how we self-sabotage our executive presence. They will demonstrate tools and techniques for building stronger executive presence at any stage in a collegiate or business setting. Attendees should walk away with self-awareness and specific tools for building, maintaining, and enhancing their presence.
- We will also have an optional speed networking/mentoring session to round out the day led by Andrea Falasco and over lunch we will present awards and introduce our scholarship recipients.
