Hi All

We had a fabulous Presentation event at Roosevelt HS. Wow, what a turnout!! The girls just kept streaming in! Thank you to the wonderful Dept Head of Business and Marketing at Roosevelt HS, Liz MacLennan. She does an amazing job getting the girls excited about the events and excited about IGNITE. We have been IGNITE partners going on 8 years and it just gets better and better. I could not do it without Liz! Thank you so much Liz for all of your dedication and hard work and most of all your belief in what we do! That really comes across to the students, when you believe in the work!! You are the best.

I want to thank our wonderful presenters!! Martine Worrall, Mechanical Engineer, Synapse Product Development, and Linda Thomas, Safety Engineer, Boeing and Governor of Society of Women Engineers for the Pacific Northwest. You made an awesome team yesterday, so many different experiences and stories for the girls to hear. You really covered all the different types of Engineering too. You both are so outstanding and dedicated IGNITE members. WE appreciate you so much. And you make it fun too. I don't know how many times I have heard you both present and its always so exciting to hear your stories again. Great job!

I want to thank the team of teachers at Roosevelt who came to the event to tell the girls all about the course offerings at their school. The wonderful Karl Ruff, Project Lead the Way, PLTW.org It is a pre-engineering program and Karl does such a wonderful job in making it exciting for young women to want to learn more about these careers. Thank you to Dan Norton-Middaugh, web design among many other important courses, and he too recruits and retains young women because of his passion towards young women's education in technology. You are both extraordinary teachers and we are so fortunate to have you !! Thank you to Nicole Samuels, a new teacher who joined the team as an intern, and is now teaching Marketing education, thank you for joining us at the event. WE look forward to working with you more..

Here are the girls comments from the survey forms.

• I liked how you had the speakers. I thought Martine was really cool, ( loved her pink hair) It was fun to hear their stories about how they come into these careers. Also having pizza was really fun.
• I thought the most interesting thing I heard was Linda's job was a mix between Monster Garage and Pimp my ride,. I would love to test things in planes to make sure there safe.
• I loved learning all the things you can do with engineering. It was great to hear the speakers stories. It was interesting to hear about the pay for these types of jobs.
• I really liked the public speakers stories. I learned all about the different types of engineering.
• I liked hearing about how the women became the job that they had. I didn't really know how a person could become an engineer before. I thought that it was interesting to learn all about how there are so many industrial engineers at Disneyland.
• I liked hearing the experiences of the visitors. I learned about all the types of engineering. The event is great how it is.
• I liked being able to hear from someone who actually does the job. I liked hearing from the woman who does things for very important people.
• I liked how they told us the different kinds of engineering and that job opens another possible career choice.
• Knowing that I can still pursue a technical career even though math is not one of my best strengths. I learned that there are so many options and types of engineering open.
• The speakers were great, and it was fun to hear about the jobs that they do.
• I liked the diversity of the panel and being informed of all the technical work women can do. I liked hearing about Linda's job and the bike metaphor. It was a perfect event.
• The stories of the women were real and we could relate to . So it gives us inspiration to work hard. These women have backgrounds similar to ours so it encourages us to take chances. I enjoyed everything.
• I liked the information that was provided and how we had women come and talk about their careers. I learned to not be afraid to take chances. It was a perfect event and you women were great.
• The informational speakers were very nice and I learned a lot. I learned about all the different paths you can take. It's great.
• I liked learning that there are successful women in engineering who weren't amazing at math. I learned about the kinds of companies that engineering jobs work with.
• I liked hearing about the different engineering jobs. It was fun to hear about different types of engineering.
• Hearing about how the different women got into engineering. That you don't have to be a genius to do that.
• I enjoyed learning about the classes offered here and how they could be useful later. It's a well paying career and that they weren't all that good at math.

Thank you all for making this possible.
Cathi