AM Book Group

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelo is the book selection for our morning book group. Ellen Stark will lead the discussion and also host the group at her home on Thursday, February 19th at 9 AM. We will read the Pageturner’s selection, Vacationland by Sarah Stonich, when we meet in March.

Arts & Entertainment Group

We will meet on Sunday, February 8th at 4:00 PM at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church for a viewing of the silent film Phantom of the Opera, accompanied by Rochester organist Andrew Galuska.  Please contact Carla Anderson-Diekmann or Courtney Wyant if you plan to join. See elsewhere in the newsletter for further details!

Arts & Entertainment–March activity

The Arts & Entertainment group has planned the “Uncork & Create: Lake Sunset” class at the Austin Artworks Center.  Cost is $35 if you are a member of the Artworks center, $40 for non-members.  Space is limited and open to the public, so sign up soon, either by calling the Artworks Center at 434-0934, or by registering online at this link:  http://www.austinareaarts.org/create/2015/3/12/uncork-create-lake-sunset 

We will also be meeting before the class at 4:45 pm at El Mariachi for supper/appetizers, so please let Carla know after you have registered for the class so we can reserve space for that too if you are interested. (If you just want to join us at El Mariachi, that would be great too!)

AAUW Meeting – February

David Wolff is the Gifted and Talented Coordinator for the Austin Public Schools and has been the leader on the STEAM Expo (science fair) for the district.  David will be speaking to us about the Gifted and Talented Program and the STEAM Expo and how these programs benefit our students.  We will be meeting on Tuesday, February 10th at the Austin Public Library in the large meeting room.  
Social time will begin at 6:30 P.M. with the program beginning at 7:00 P.M.   Hope to see you there!

 

January AAUW Meeting

This AAUW meeting will be held at Riverland in Austin East, Room C107 on January 13th.  Plan to park in the lot near the theater on campus and come in door E5, near the theater (but not the entrance to the theater.)  Room C107 is straight down the hall on the right side.  The meeting will begin at 7 PM with social time starting at 6:30 PM.
 
Our program will be Kristen Olsen, Community Concierge for Austin!  She will be sharing information about the activities and goals of the concierge initiative in addition to sharing information about their successes.

 

2015 STEM Expo

The Austin AAUW is organizing adults to assist the 3rd and 4th graders at Neveln and Sumner Elementary Schools with completing their science fair projects for the 2015 STEAM Expo scheduled for March 6, 2015.  This project is called the Science Fair Mentoring Project and has recently been reported on by KAAL, KIMT, and the Austin Herald.  We have also talked about this project at the past couple of AAUW meetings.  We begin working with the Sumner students on November 12 during their after school program time.  We will begin working with the Neveln students in January.
Please contact Catherine Haslag for more information.