GameAbove funds two engineering students and a staff member for a trip to the Society of Women Engineering Conference - EMU Today

YPSILANTI — The Eastern Michigan University alumni group, GameAbove, provided backing for EMU students Kara Bishop, Haylee Haik, and EMU’s manager of K-12 STEM outreach and Digital Divas programme director, Bia Hamed, to question to Houston, Texas, for the “WE22" — the world’s largest league for women successful engineering and technology, hosted by The Society of Women Engineers (SWE). 

Over the two-day conference, Bishop and Haik heard from influential keynote speakers specified arsenic Phyllis Schneck, vice president of accusation information and cyber main accusation information serviceman astatine Northrop Grumman, and Nancy Post, vice president for Embedded Software and Solutions for the Intelligent Solutions Group, John Deere. 

Haik, left, wearing goggles, and Bishop experienced virtual world investigating hands-on portion interacting with assorted tech companies astatine the conference.

From attending the largest vocation just for women successful engineering and exertion to experiencing the integer store that included booths and hands-on virtual world testing, Bishop and Haik interacted with companies successful the automotive, technology, finance, education, aviation, government, and subject professions. 

Both students took clip to physique their idiosyncratic and nonrecreational communities done networking and attending sessions tally by starring experts, contented creators, and innovators. Bishop, a inferior studying mechanical engineering and treasurer of the SWE pupil organization, was impressed with the conference’s talker line-up.

“The impermanent speakers were moving and inspiring, and the vocation and quality improvement sessions targeted women to assistance flooded obstacles,” Bishop said.

Haik, a elder studying electrical and machine engineering and president of the SWE pupil organization, has ever been funny successful a vocation that tin payment nine and amended the environment. 

“The vocation just was amazing,” said Haik. “The ballroom was filled with booths from hundreds of companies, and we met manufacture professionals worldwide. Some companies were conducting interviews connected the spot, and I got 2 occupation offers from that alone,” she added.

The brace visited the Northrup Grumman booth, landing an archetypal interview, and were requested to instrumentality for a much in-depth interview. After the 2nd interview, some Bishop and Haik landed positions with the company.

Bishop secured a 2023 summertime internship, each expenses paid successful Los Angeles. Haik secured a relation that volition relocate her to San Diego, wherever she volition enactment arsenic an electrical technologist aft graduation.

“I americium immensely grateful for the accidental GameAbove provided for us, and I cognize that attending the league volition person a lasting interaction connected me,” said Haik. 

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