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.

 

Supplies and Help needed for the Science Fair Mentoring Project

Let’s support own branch member, Catherine Haslag, who is spearheading a plan to mentor kids at Sumner and Neveln Schools for science fair projects. She has put in many hours organizing this effort, and her enthusiasm and charisma is infectious!! She has marshaled lots of help in the community but she needs your help too!

We hope lots of you will volunteer as mentors, but there are other ways you can help out as well:

  1. Volunteer to be a host at one of the school sites when the mentoring is going on.
  2. Volunteer as a shopper to get equipment for the projects once the children decide on their topics.
  1. Donate supplies: pencils, rulers, construction paper (both white and colored), stick-on name tags, transparent tape, letter stencils, and paint pens. These        can be brought to the AAUW meetings in October and November.

For more information contact: Catherine, Carolyn Bogott, or Peggy Benzkofer

Great Decisions

                  Great Decisions will meet on Wednesday, October 1st at 1:00 pm at Riverland.  If interested in attending, contact Sue Grove for room information which is still being assigned.

The Travel Club

The Travel Club will meet on Thursday, October 9th at Kathy Kester’s home at 3:00 P.M. Please notice that we are meeting at 3:00, not 2:00 P.M. Many of the Travel Club members have traveled to Austria, so for the October program we will be sharing “Memories of Austria!”   We encourage all members, who have traveled to Austria, to bring photos and/or items that they purchased while traveling there and to be willing to share stories connected with these items.  Please RSVP drgraber@charter.net if you plan to attend. We hope to see you on October 9th.

Morning Book Group – October

The morning book group will meet at Barley’s at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 16th.  We are reading and will be discussing the book “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak.  Gerry Rustad will lead the discussion. If this time and place work for you, we’d love to have you join us.

Morning Book Group

The morning book group will meet at Barley’s at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, September18.  We are reading and will be discussing the book “The Emigrants” by Vilhelm Moberg.  If this time and place work for you, we’d love to have you join us.