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Best Practice: Collaborative Industrial Networking Event
Ivan Konstantinov 2015 Chair Brazosport Local Section
Collaborative Industrial Networking Happy Hour
What Why
Industrial Networking Happy Hour Collaboration, networking, boost attendance to our events
When:
5-7 pm, Spring & Fall, 2012-present
Where Who
Local Restaurants Co-hosted by local professional organizations
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Logistics
• Developed relationships with local restaurants • Advertisement: Fliers, Email, Facebook, Website, Calendar Meeting Request • Sign-in sheets and name tags • Networking Bingo! – Prizes for winner!
• Newsletters available for reading •
Free appetizers
& 2 beverages (tickets to keep track) • Table tents with QR code • Funding – determines maximum size of event – Co-hosting commitment - $100 – ACS National Grant - $1000 – AIChE National Grant - $600
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Impact and Assessment
• Highest attendance in recent history!
– 2012 (20 - 25 people) – 2013 (25 - 75 people) • Positive feedback from professional organizations, attendees, and restaurants • Good participation with bingo • New Facebook likes!
• New network connections made!
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Key Lessons Learned
• Collaboration is key! Help each other out • People like to eat and drink • Advertise more than you think you should via different media • Polling members for what they want does not always work out
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Outstanding Performance by a Local Section-Medium Large Size Category
Jennifer McKenzie 2015 Chair Elect Nashville Local Section
Nashville Section hosted 11 Major Events in 2013
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8000 attendees, 150 volunteers 125 attendees, 10 mentors + organizers and support team 5300 attendees, 230 volunteers, ~10 different events
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Events and Member Affiliations to Drive Volunteer Effort
Earth Day 2013 – ACS Chaired the Volunteer Committee – Website sign-up, ACS handled on-site coordination – Sent out call to local volunteer groups, schools, and courthouse (court-appointed community service) STEMming a Brighter Future – ACS Members in local industry hosting event – In 2013, members of local industry from Aegis Sciences Corp. form S 2 Group – Science and Schools.
– Gained funding from ACS and other sponsors to host 125 students and teachers from 45 local schools National Chemistry Week – Partnership of ~30 groups – ~10 different events taking place in a large variety of locales in middle Tennessee/Kentucky – Diverse involvement leads to diverse/large volume of volunteers Currently growing our social media presence to help spread the word in the future!! @NashvilleACS
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Let Members Pursue Their Passions…
… but make them document everything for the Annual Report!
Example 1 : Judith – Our guru for advancing STEM for Women – Manages numerous events at MTSU and in the Nashville area. – Receives tons of photos, feedback from students and volunteers, all of which is submitted in the oral report.
Example 2: Kara and Darcie – Local Industry members – Host several activities/yr. including bringing in HS students, holding Career events, celebrating NCW.
– publishes their ACS activities as part of a weekly newsletter Example 3: Preston – Connected to local children’s museum – Able to host several chapter meetings a year – Easy for ACS to get involved in museum events, such as monthly Science Cafes.
Annual Report Tips: 1) Keep a file with all the event announcement emails throughout the year 2) Visit the websites of student sections/museums/schools, etc to fill in gaps when they don’t help out with the report.
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Outstanding Collaboration Between a Division and Local Section and Global Engagement Award for a Local Section
Jerry Jasinski 2015 Chair Elect Northeastern Local Section
Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society
• Event: Exchange between the Younger Chemists Committee of NESACS (NSYCC) and the Jungchemikerform (JFC) of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) at the Northeast Regional Meeting of the ACS (NERM) in New Haven, CT (October23-26, 2013).
• German visitors participated in technical sessions, made oral and poster presentations and were part of a NESACS-sponsored symposium, “International Chemistry Connections” on October 25 th .
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Development & Planning Process
This was the 13 th activity in the series of exchange programs between NSYCC of NESACS and JCF of GDCh.
Planning began shortly after August 2010 exchange when German graduate students attended the ACS National Meeting in Boston, MA.
NESACS German Exchange Steering Committee met regularly to develop plans, and regular communications were held with members of the Education Division of GDCh in Germany.
Constant contact with Michelle Stevenson in the ACS Regional Meetings Office was maintained in order to register members of the German delegation for the meeting, arrange for scheduling of the NESACS-sponsored symposium and handle logistical details.
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Funding Resources
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GDCh provided flight tickets to/from Boston/Germany.
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NESACS paid for seven nights of lodging (4 in Boston, 3 in New Haven), meals and local arrangements, and NERM registrations.
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Part of the costs were covered by the 2013 ACS Global Innovation (GI) Award from the International Activities Committee (IAC) of $4000.
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Strem Chemicals supported the bus transportation to/from Logan Airport and to/from New Haven.
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Impact and Assessment
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12 German graduate students in the chemical sciences and 2 accompanying persons attended and participated in NERM. Oral and poster presentations were made about their research, and were part of the NESACS-sponsored symposium on “International Chemistry Connections,” and were involved in all the social and networking activities.
German delegation members were extremely pleased to have the opportunity to experience an ACS regional meeting.
It costs a lot of money and time to make this type of activity a success, so funding and engagement of volunteers is the most difficult part of the event.
All involved must keep on top of every aspect of the plans and anticipate many surprises.
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Outstanding Local Section Younger Chemists Committee
Katie Heroux 2015 Chair Elect Savannah River Local Section
Savannah River Section
Younger Chemists Committee
Katie J. Heroux – 2013-2014 YCC Chair
2013 Highlights:
- 67 members led by 1 Chair and 2 co-Chairs - Most active year to date: hosted - Also participated in NCW and SEED activities - Variety of
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events on $500 budget /community outreach,
career
development, and
social
networking events in the CSRA - Established a partnership with the Salvation Army of North Augusta - Increased visibility and volunteer participation among local
college students
- Received
ChemLuminary Award
for Outstanding Local Section YCC
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Younger Chemists Committee
Nanotechnology demonstrations at local schools Volunteer appreciation
Educational and Community Outreach
‘Kitchen Chemistry’ at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia ‘Gross, Gooey, and Ghoulish Science Experiments’ at the Salvation Army
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Younger Chemists Committee Career Development
Program-in-a-Box Webinars
“A date with science: dinner and dessert chemistry” “Putting your best foot forward: managing your paper and online resumes”
Augusta GreenJackets Baseball
Social Networking
Careers in Chemistry Q&A with college and high school students University of South Carolina-Aiken Georgia Regents University
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Pizza kick-off meeting Holiday Social & Toy Drive
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