December Happenings
Elizabeth Peterson – President
Please accept my heartfelt wish on behalf of NESS for a joyous and safe holiday season for you, your family and extended family, too!
Thank you all for your support throughout the year to help NESS achieve our goals. I’d like to express gratitude for several members who consistently give so much of their time and effort to sustain NESS and enable our section to continue to offer excellent programs for our members, colleagues, collegiates and children. Remember that renewing your SWE membership, even if you do not participate in local events, is important because you are staying informed and a portion of your dues is received by NESS.
Please let me know if you can join NESS for our annual holiday dinner on December 5th at Not Your Average Joe’s in Warwick. We will be collecting donations for Lucy’s Hearth 24-hour emergency and transitional shelter for homeless women and children.
More great news! This month, Dominion announced that they will increase their NESS corporate sponsorship by 100% to $3K! Our implementation of 16 STEM outreach programs which reached 1400 students in 2013 is exactly aligned with their corporate citizenship goal. It’s not easy to track the affects of our acts of kindness, but I reassure you that our mentorship is encouraging many local girls and boys to choose STEM college majors and certificate programs.
NESS’s Executive Council is looking forward to continue to serve you and our communities in 2015.
Happy Holidays from Beth Peterson
