Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Silicon Valley

Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
@ Silicon Valley
"Engineering the Next Level"

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Current Events
Mar 15	EXCEL Mentoring Program
Mar 20	SHPE-SV Business Mtg
Apr 26	Tech Dev Conf

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Thursday, 29-Jul-2010 19:21:33 MST

EXCEL Calendar

NetDay History

EXCEL Student Application

Community Relations

SHPE-SV is made up of Hispanic professionals dedicated to the development of the Latino community on a national and local level. We are glad to support the Silicon Valley community through our EXCEL, NetDay programs as well as other community services activities.

Community Service

SHPE SV members participate in various community service opportunities throught the peninsula. Schools, museums, other professional associations and corporations ask for volunteers from our membership for mentors, speakers, instructors, role models, and NetDay leads. Below is a short list of the community service events SHPE-SV has participated in. If you have a community service event you feel SHPE members could participate in let us know.

Year 2002

May - Raza Day at Stanford
May - Gear Up Project at Sylvandale Middle School
Aug - BrassRing Career Fair
Oct - "Mes Nacional de la Herencia Latina" at The Tech Museum of Innovation

Year 2001 Past Events

Sept - Tech Museum's Engineer Day
Sept - In Pursuit of Diverse Solutions Professional Development Conference

Year 2000 Past Events

Jan - Tech Museum's "Closing the Digital Divide" network event
April - First Annual Migrant Education Conference
May - Tech Museum's Parent Night
Principal for a Day at J.C.Overfelt (Alvaro Sanchez)

EXCEL Mentoring Program

The EXCEL Mentoring Program is a supplemental educational program for middle-school-age minority (and non-minority) youths in the subjects of engineering, science, math, history, and english. The program is a partnership with the Franklin-McKinley School district. Headquartered at Sylvandale Middle School in San Jose (map and directions). The program is coordinated by volunteers. And our target group to participate in the program will be Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth grade students.

The start date of EXCEL this year is October 1 2002. This is Parent's Night, where SHPE professionals take the opportunity to meet the parents, explain the goals of the program, and greet the students.

Program format
EXCEL sessions are held once a month, usually the 2nd Saturday of the month. We meet at Sylvandale Middle School for sessions and for bus pick-up on field trip events. Sessions last about 3 hours and generally begin 9 AM, finishing up by 12 noon. On field trips, we are usually back by 3 PM.

Become a Volunteer
We ask volunteers to commit to only 3 sessions per EXCEL calendar year. Sessions are planned and executed by SHPE-SV volunteers.

The EXCEL program is open and free to any interested students. Printout an application for this upcoming 2002-2003 year. Turn the application in on Parent's Night or mail it in.

To volunteer or more info please contact the EXCEL Mentoring Program coordinator:
Ines Amaro
408.838.5534 cell

EXCEL Calendar 2002-2003

Click here for the EXCEL calendar.

Model airplace contest

Leaving NASA Ames
and Moffet Field

In 2000 EXCEL students participated in the model airplane contest held at Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA. Click on the pictures to enlarge.

NetDay

To help with the advancement of Latinos in engineering and science, SHPE-SV has been connecting schools with high Latino populations to the internet. Currently, many companies have been partnering with neighborhood schools to connect them to the internet. Unfortunately there are not many companies in East San Jose where much of the Latino population lives. As a result, our kids are at a disadvantage. SHPE-SV is committed to making up for this imbalance in society by giving our children the access to technology.

This project is an example of our NetDay Program where SHPE-SV delivers state-of-the-art technology to our local Latino community. Click here to see a list of the projects completed by SHPE-SV.