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Committee Overview

Committees are integral to the functioning of our chapter. If you're interested in learning more about our committees, check out the pages below:

Mentoring, Outreach, and Professional Development Committee 

Interested in helping to plan events for AWIS LAVC?
If you want to help grow our chapter, one of the best ways is to participate in our planning meetings. We call in to a teleconference phone number and discuss what we'd like to achieve. Meetings happen every three weeks and are currently scheduled for Mondays at 7pm. If you'd like to listen in or even throw in your own ideas, please contact us and we'll be sure you're on the mailing list for when the meetings happen. Call-in information can be found on our Planning Meeting page.



Current Open Committee Positions
Our chapter has four committees as listed below and we have listed some of our ideas and opportunities for helping out in more detail.  Committee descriptions can be found at the links above. Alternatively, if you have any other ideas or suggestions please let us know.  We are always open to new ideas and input.  Please let us know what you're interested in or feel free to contact the committee chair(s) directly.  If we can answer any questions or provide any more information, please do let us know and feel free to email. 

Communications (Co-chairs: April Shiflett (secretary@awislavc.org) and Sophia Tsai (communications@awislavc.org), newsletter co-chair: Amanda Lee (newsletter@awislavc.org))
--Website maintenance/content generator (1-2 people to update the website with upcoming events, committee members, announcements, and anything else relevant to the chapter)
--Planning Meeting Coordinator (1 person to organize the agenda items and meeting content for our teleconference/web-con planning meetings which occur every 3 weeks)
--Event notifier (communicate with Chapter members, AWIS National and Linked In Groups regarding upcoming events and chapter news)
--Flyer designer (Create flyers for upcoming events)
--Planning Meeting Coordinator (1 person to organize the agenda items and meeting content for our teleconference/web-con planning meetings which occur every 3 weeks)
--Event notifier (communicate with Chapter members, AWIS National and Linked In Groups regarding upcoming events and chapter news)
--Flyer designer (Create flyers for upcoming events)


Membership and Sponsorships (Chair: Grace Jiang (vp@awislavc.org))
--Sponsorship team (2-4 people: Create sponsorship marketing packets, generate lists of potential sponsors, send out packets, develop and maintain sponsor relationships)
--Campus/company/local  liasion coordinator (1-4 people: Work with campus liasions to promote events, hold coffee clubs with membership information)
--Membership information coordinator (1 person: Be in charge of membership information box to bring to all events, work with AWIS National to obtain membership materials)
--Membership renewal coordinator (1 person: Manage membership list, create and send out renewal reminders)
--Membership promoter (1 person, Send emails to event attendees with invitation to membership)
--Members-only events team (2-4 people: Plan members-only events) 


Networking and Social (Co-Chairs: Erin Denny and Melina Grigorian (networking@awislavc.org))
-Join this committee and be involved with developing ideas and planning fun and worthwhile social and networking events
-Coordinator of members-only networking events (our goal is 2 events per year that are for members only)


Mentoring, Outreach, and Professional Development (Co-Chairs: Tracy Blois (president@awislavc.org) and Allison Sargoy (outreach@awislavc.org))
-Chair (or co-chair) a professional development speaker event
-Help at a speaker event
-Coordinate refreshments at speaker events
-Be a part of the outreach subcommittee (we are starting an outreach program with local middle and high schools this year and need help with contacting and visiting schools to bring science presentations to the classrooms)
-Head up AWIS LAVC involvment in the international science and engineering fair, Intel ISEF--as judges or as general volunteers (held in downtown LA May 8-13, 2011, http://www.societyforscience.org/intelisef2011)
-Chair or co-chair the mentoring sub-committee and develop a chapter mentoring program
-Help launch the AWIS LAVC mentoring program