An exciting school year awaits SWENexters everywhere! My name is Zeynep, and my SWENext Club at school is in full gear getting ready for the new school year.
Club registration has recently opened so forms are being filled out, members are being registered, and officers are being determined, but that’s not the fun part! Since it’s my fourth and final year with this high school chapter of SWENext that I founded my freshman year, I want to fill the entire year with activities that are not only educational and motivational, but also fun and engaging.
The schedule for this school year is filled with a diverse set of activities and competitions. Let’s start with guest speakers! We will welcome role models, such as successful alumni from our school district and industry-leading women from different fields and companies as well as other high schoolers, to come in for a presentation and share their experiences with our members.
Alongside guest speakers, we will also have various schoolwide competitions during the year, including website/app prototyping, presenting an area of engineering, and coding. Lastly, we will have volunteer opportunities, like creating educational and motivational content to share with elementary and middle school students, writing encouraging letters to other girls in STEM, hosting presentations for younger students, creating advocacy flyers, and more.
That’s all that we have on the schedule for now, but we are always hoping to add more interaction and value to our club. If you have any other ideas for SWENext Clubs, please leave a comment below.
I hope everyone has a great school year, and feel free to comment on what your SWENext Club has planned for this year!
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Zeynep is an aspiring software engineer who is interested in artificial intelligence and machine learning. She is the founder and creator of the Chrome extension "Amazon SEO Helper" for product listings on Amazon, inspired by her various business ventures. Zeynep is also a Congressional Award Gold Medalist, the highest award given to civilian youth in the U.S. as it requires a minimum of 800 hours of effort in total.
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