COMMUNITY OUTREACH & INVOLVEMENT
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Right now more than ever, our community needs us during this pandemic. AFGE is proud to support FISH of Albany where donations go to assist with medicine, food, and shelter. FISH helps nearly 300 families a week with their food pantry and provides snack packs for the Greater Albany Public School weekend programs.
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Promoting Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education
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We are actively engaged with the community to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education from K-12 through graduate school.
Please contact us if you would like to have someone from NETL speak or participate at your event! |
Recent STEM Events with NETL Albany Participation
GirlCon 2021 Four scientists at NETL are inspiring girls in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) at GirlCon 2021, an international tech conference aiming to empower the next generation of female leaders. Natalie Pekney, Alexandra Hakala, Circe Verba and Madison Wenzlick are slated to present at several sessions throughout the conference to share their career stories, offer tips for working in energy and address challenges girls may face in pursuing STEM.
ExploraVision Student Summit –Open Window School (Belleview, WA) Student Leadership Innovation Summit - December 2, 2020 – This grades 5th–7th virtual STEM career event involved innovative leaders influential in enacting key policies, initiatives, or programs to bring about change within their industry or field. These leaders shared information about their fields and organizations, their careers, the top challenges facing their industries/fields and current solutions, their visions for the future of their fields, and what innovations they would like to see developed to transform their industry and the potential impact these may have. Following the summit, students participated in the ExploraVision competition where they selected an issue they are passionate about and began work in small teams to tackle these issues through the utilization of innovative technology. Through NETL’s participation students gained an awareness of NETL, the fossil energy field, and the energy challenges and solutions facing the US.
Society of Women Engineers Virtual career fair on November 4-5, 2020
Oregon State University’s (OSU) Natural Sciences, Earth & Environmental Career Fair. October 22, 2020. This virtual event provided OSU undergraduate and graduate students with opportunities to network with, seek information about, and investigate intern/full-time/volunteer employment opportunities with NETL and a variety of other private, corporate, and governmental organizations.
GirlCon 2021 Four scientists at NETL are inspiring girls in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) at GirlCon 2021, an international tech conference aiming to empower the next generation of female leaders. Natalie Pekney, Alexandra Hakala, Circe Verba and Madison Wenzlick are slated to present at several sessions throughout the conference to share their career stories, offer tips for working in energy and address challenges girls may face in pursuing STEM.
ExploraVision Student Summit –Open Window School (Belleview, WA) Student Leadership Innovation Summit - December 2, 2020 – This grades 5th–7th virtual STEM career event involved innovative leaders influential in enacting key policies, initiatives, or programs to bring about change within their industry or field. These leaders shared information about their fields and organizations, their careers, the top challenges facing their industries/fields and current solutions, their visions for the future of their fields, and what innovations they would like to see developed to transform their industry and the potential impact these may have. Following the summit, students participated in the ExploraVision competition where they selected an issue they are passionate about and began work in small teams to tackle these issues through the utilization of innovative technology. Through NETL’s participation students gained an awareness of NETL, the fossil energy field, and the energy challenges and solutions facing the US.
Society of Women Engineers Virtual career fair on November 4-5, 2020
Oregon State University’s (OSU) Natural Sciences, Earth & Environmental Career Fair. October 22, 2020. This virtual event provided OSU undergraduate and graduate students with opportunities to network with, seek information about, and investigate intern/full-time/volunteer employment opportunities with NETL and a variety of other private, corporate, and governmental organizations.
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The Albany Regional Museum featured the Albany Research Center in its Albany Special Metals exhibit and accompanying video
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