49th QCESC Banquet and Awards Ceremony

Date: 24-February-2011
Time: 05:00PM to 09:00PM
Location: Putnam Museum, Davenport, Iowa

This year's Engineer's Week banquet will include displays from some of the 35 technical and professional science and engineering societies in the Quad Cities. There will be schoarships and awards and an induction to the Order of the Engineer, as well as a keynote speaker.

Food Catered by Iowa Machine Shed Restaurant with Italian Chicken and Lemon Peppered Cod, with bread, potatoes, coleslaw, cottage cheese, and a cobbler for dessert. Water, ice tea and coffee are included. A cash bar will be open all night.

Cost $35 and $20 for full-time students (open to the public!)

Link here for more information and registration.

FIRST Lego League Regionals

What? 2nd Annual FIRST LEGO League Regional Qualifier
When? Saturday, December 11, 2010 (8am-4pm)
Where? Putnam Museum, 1717 W. 12th Street, Davenport, Iowa

Join us for the second annual, QCESC Co-Sponsored, FIRST Lego League Regionals at the Putnam Museum, in Davenport! This is a great event and we expect about 300 people at the museum tomorrow. [map]

2010 Moms Night Out

2010 Iowa Moms Night Out

to Raise STEM Awareness

Event Purpose: A fun night that will inspire and educate moms/parents about the importance of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education and the vital role they play with their children.
*Note: Free childcare (ages 2 and up) will be provided with advanced registration

Location:
Putnam Museum and IMAX Theatre
1717 W. 12th Street
Davenport, Iowa

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Date: This coming Monday!

October 18, 2010
7:00 – 8:30 PM

Register:

On-line at (preferred method):

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/D2N8LZB

For further information for Moms Night Out at the Putnam:
Phone number 563-324-1933

Keynote Speaker:
Joanne Howard, Manager Energy & Climate Strategy at John Deere, who will be discussing the importance of the STEM courses and how those lessons are used around the world.

Event Sponsor:

The state-wide sponsor for Moms Night Out for STEM is John Deere with generous support from Iowa Public Television and Hy-Vee.

The Moms Night Out satellite event is part of numerous other events scheduled across the nation during October in celebration of the first USA Science and Engineering Festival, to be held in Washington D.C. on October 23-24, 2010. The Moms Night Out event is being held on October 18 simultaneously at 20 locations in Iowa including Muscatine, Ottumwa, Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Des Moines, Ankeny, and Iowa City. You can register free for any of the sites per the link above.

Further Information on Mom’s Night Out for STEM:

Flyer for Moms Night Out Event at Putnam:

http://www.qcesc.org/MomsNightOut-putnam5.pdf

Moms Night Out on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Moms-Night-Out-for-STEM-IOWA/126911334024570

Iowa Mathematics and Science Education Partnership (IMSEP):
http://www.iowamathscience.org/moms_night_out/

USA Science & Engineering Festival:
http://www.usasciencefestival.org/

National Science Festival

National Science & Engineering Festival

October 10-24, 2010

We are in the middle of the National Science & Engineering Festival, October 10-24, 2010. As a part of that, and as a science educator, I encourage everyone to find, volunteer for or sponsor science and engineering related events. Don't feel discouraged that October is flying by so fast; try to find opportunities to participate in science events, even after this festival ends! This is a nationally sponsored activity, to raise awareness, but enthusiasm about science and engineering should continue, year-round!

Seminar on Brain Science, April 4th

There will be a seminar at Trinity Hospital at Terrace Park (4500 Utica Ridge Rd., Bettendorf, IA) on April 4th, 2009. The speakers will be Lynn Hudson and Denes V. Agoston, two research scientists. Lynn Hudson will speak on 'What Can Biomedical Research Do for You?' and Denes V. Agoston will speak on 'Regenerative Capacity of the Brain: Integrative Medicine and Traumatic Brain Injury.'

The event starts at 10AM, and it sponsored by the Bettendorf Public Schools.

The 47th Annual QCESC Engineers Week Banquet

Tonight is the 47th Annual QCESC Engineers Week Banquet (http://www.qcesc.org/banquet.htm) being held in conjunction with the Henry Farnum Dinner this year. We should have a couple hundred attendees for a talk on the completion of lock and dam 15 at Rock Island, on the Mississippi River. In addition, the Quad Cities Engineering and Science Council will be presenting Jr./Sr. Scientist and Engineer of the Year awards, a Lifetime Achievement award and student scholarships. QCESC is composed of a number of area engineering and science organizations, including the IEEE section that I was chair of last year.

If you decide to come at the last minute, we should have a couple extra places saved, and there may be snow tonight which will lead to some no-shows. Please DO COME if you have an interest. It will be a wonderful presentation, and the banquet is served by the Radisson in downtown Davenport. An excellent event, for only $40.

The award recipients already know who they are, and their biographies will be published in the brochure, so I'm not revealing too much prematurely to share that I've been selected as the Sr. Scientist of the Year. It is an honor to know that the community values engineering and science, and is willing to promote activities like this.