This annual event invites students from Portland, Vancouver and Salem area high schools to spend a day exploring engineering. High school students are partnered with local engineers and immersed in a day of engineering – through tours, exhibits and speakers

Each year, the local engineering community holds the Engineers Week High School Student Banquet. Students are invited from Portland, Vancouver and Salem area high schools. Schools provide names of students whose interests and talents lend themselves to the field of engineering or are considering engineering careers. Each student is hosted by an engineer who has volunteered to attend the banquet. It is $60 for one engineer to host one student. For companies and organizations interested in hosting a banquet table, there is a special sponsorship level form – please contact Tova Peltz for more details (tpeltz@gri.com). Hosts are encouraged to invite their student to visit their place of work. Hosts may also attend a scheduled technical tour with their student.

We are seeking your help hosting students and sponsoring 100% of student attendance at this year’s Banquet!

Ms. Wright and Ms. Hasan are team leaders of the Global Connections Project, a collaborative project of NASA, Carnegie Mellon University, Google, and National Geographic. The Global Connection Project team develops software tools to increasingly automate earth visualization processes. These tools are a resource for an earth imaging browser, like Google Earth, to collect pictures and stories of real people and places, and to create global-community connectivity. The software uses information available about natural events, and real-time images of the Earth’s geography, to spearhead global disaster response and connect the world to global events.

This year hosts will be put in contact with their high school student(s) two weeks in advance of the event to facilitate day-of-the-event planning. We will also provide hosts with a useful “hosting” kit.

To host students, please return a completed sign up form to Patrick Van Duser, Engineers Week Banquet Committee Co-Chair (address is on the form). If you are able to host more than one student, your help will be greatly appreciated. Also, if you are unable to attend the banquet, please consider simply sponsoring students, so that we may accommodate more students at the banquet. Thank you for your support.