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IEEE Day: 7 October 2010
By João Figueiras, R8 GOLD Coordinator
IEEE Day is a
global event planned for 7 October 2010, in
recognition of IEEE members — past, present and
future — on the anniversary of the first time
IEEE members gathered to share their technical
ideas in 1884. IEEE organizational units
(regions, sections, chapters, affinity groups,
student branches, etc.) will be encouraged to
participate by providing local events for their
members and encouraging the use of social
networking to communicate members’ technological
interests and successes.
The IEEE Day is a
project that grounds its roots in a simple
concept: Celebrate, everywhere around the
world on 7 October, the achievements of IEEE.
The project aims at building up a platform and a
network where all IEEE members, affinity groups,
sections, regions, chapters, societies and
technology lovers in general can organize events
in their home locations with the aim of
celebrating the IEEE’s technological
advancements. Any type of event counts as long
as this event is connected to the IEEE Day
network!
Nurturing the
project
The IEEE Day is a
project firstly proposed by Salima Kaissi, R8
GOLD member, and further developed in a group of
interested GOLD and Students volunteers. This
idea was, for the first time, compiled in a
comprehensive project proposal submitted to the
MGA Challenge 2010. After some rounds of
clarifications, the project was selected among
more than 50 others to be awarded and it
subsequently gained a primary focus from MGA’s
“big eye.”
How to get
involved in IEEE Day
IEEE Day has
defined three ways of networking and means of
disseminating your participation on the yearly
celebration:
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“Photo wall of the year”: every member will be invited to share a picture
showing himself/herself in real action (at laboratory, desk, classroom, with
Oscilloscope..)
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“Let’s wear IEEE Day T-shirt”: members can find the link on the
IEEE Day website where they can order their t-shirts. They can also download and
print the logo locally
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“Upload your IEEE Facebook profile picture”: Taken during the IEEE Day
You can access
the IEEE Day network on:
IEEE Day
Goal
The goal for
IEEE Day is an ambitious target of 100,000
online actions between all the IEEE Day
networking channels. Comments, photos,
videos, page hits, friend invitations, and
so on will all be considered online actions.
Awards will be
given to the 10 entities (Section, Chapter,
Affinity Groups…) organizing the BEST
activities. In addition, awards will be
given to the 10 individuals submitting the
BEST pictures/videos to our online activity
“Photo wall of the year.”
Help us reach
our goal! Don't forget to put IEEE Day, 7
October on your calendar and start thinking
of creative ways to participate in the
excitement. Use IEEE Day to tell us about
yourself, share your work, and get to know
your fellow members.
Comments may be submitted to
todaysengineer@ieee.org.
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