American Chemical Society Best Practice: Collaborative Industrial Networking Event Ivan Konstantinov...

American Chemical Society

Best Practice: Collaborative Industrial Networking Event

Ivan Konstantinov

2015 Chair

Brazosport Local Section

American Chemical Society 2

What Industrial Networking Happy Hour

Why Collaboration, networking, boost attendance to our events

When: 5-7 pm, Spring & Fall, 2012-present

Where Local Restaurants

Who Co-hosted by local professional organizations

Collaborative Industrial Networking Happy Hour


Logistics

• Developed relationships with local restaurants

• Advertisement: Fliers, Email, Facebook, Website,

Calendar Meeting Request

• Sign-in sheets and name tags

• Networking Bingo! – Prizes for winner!

• Newsletters available for reading

• Free appetizers & 2 beverages (tickets to keep track)

• Table tents with QR code

• Funding – determines maximum size of event

– Co-hosting commitment - $100

– ACS National Grant - $1000

– AIChE National Grant - $600


• Highest attendance in recent history!

– 2012 (20 - 25 people)

– 2013 (25 - 75 people)

• Positive feedback from professional organizations, attendees, and restaurants

• Good participation with bingo

• New Facebook likes!

• New network connections made!

Impact and Assessment


• Collaboration is key! Help each other out

• People like to eat and drink

• Advertise more than you think you should via different media

• Polling members for what they want does not always work out

Key Lessons Learned


Outstanding Performance by a Local Section-Medium Large Size Category

Jennifer McKenzie

2015 Chair Elect

Nashville Local Section


Nashville Section hosted 11 Major Events in 2013

8000 attendees, 150 volunteers

125 attendees, 10 mentors + organizers and support team

5300 attendees, 230 volunteers, ~10 different events


Events and Member Affiliations to Drive Volunteer Effort

• Earth Day 2013 – ACS Chaired the Volunteer Committee

– Website sign-up, ACS handled on-site coordination

– Sent out call to local volunteer groups, schools, and courthouse (court-appointed community service)

• STEMming a Brighter Future – ACS Members in local industry hosting event

– In 2013, members of local industry from Aegis Sciences Corp. form S2 Group – Science and Schools.

– Gained funding from ACS and other sponsors to host 125 students and teachers from 45 local schools

• National Chemistry Week – Partnership of ~30 groups

– ~10 different events taking place in a large variety of locales in middle Tennessee/Kentucky

– Diverse involvement leads to diverse/large volume of volunteers

Currently growing our social media presence to help spread the word in the future!! @NashvilleACS


Let Members Pursue Their Passions…

• Example 1 : Judith – Our guru for advancing STEM for Women

– Manages numerous events at MTSU and in the Nashville area.

– Receives tons of photos, feedback from students and volunteers, all of which is submitted in the oral report.

• Example 2: Kara and Darcie – Local Industry members

– Host several activities/yr. including bringing in HS students, holding Career events, celebrating NCW.

– publishes their ACS activities as part of a weekly newsletter

• Example 3: Preston – Connected to local children’s museum

– Able to host several chapter meetings a year

– Easy for ACS to get involved in museum events, such as monthly Science Cafes.

…but make them document everything for the Annual Report!

Annual Report Tips: 1) Keep a file with all the event announcement emails throughout the year 2) Visit the websites of student sections/museums/schools, etc to fill in gaps when they don’t help out with the report.


Outstanding Collaboration Between a Division and Local Section and Global Engagement Award for a Local Section

Jerry Jasinski

2015 Chair Elect

Northeastern Local Section

Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society

• Event: Exchange between the Younger Chemists Committee of NESACS (NSYCC) and the Jungchemikerform (JFC) of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) at the Northeast Regional Meeting of the ACS (NERM) in New Haven, CT (October23-26, 2013).

• German visitors participated in technical sessions, made oral and poster presentations and were part of a NESACS-sponsored symposium, “International Chemistry Connections” on October 25th.

• www.nesacs.org

Development & Planning Process

www.nesacs.org

• This was the 13th activity in the series of exchange programs between NSYCC of NESACS and JCF of GDCh.

• Planning began shortly after August 2010 exchange when German graduate students attended the ACS National Meeting in Boston, MA.

• NESACS German Exchange Steering Committee met regularly to develop plans, and regular communications were held with members of the Education Division of GDCh in Germany.

• Constant contact with Michelle Stevenson in the ACS Regional Meetings Office was maintained in order to register members of the German delegation for the meeting, arrange for scheduling of the NESACS-sponsored symposium and handle logistical details.

Funding Resources

www.nesacs.org

• GDCh provided flight tickets to/from Boston/Germany.

• NESACS paid for seven nights of lodging (4 in Boston, 3 in New Haven), meals and local arrangements, and NERM registrations.

• Part of the costs were covered by the 2013 ACS Global Innovation (GI) Award from the International Activities Committee (IAC) of $4000.

• Strem Chemicals supported the bus transportation to/from Logan Airport and to/from New Haven.

Impact and Assessment

www.nesacs.org

• 12 German graduate students in the chemical sciences and 2 accompanying persons attended and participated in NERM.

• Oral and poster presentations were made about their research, and were part of the NESACS-sponsored symposium on “International Chemistry Connections,” and were involved in all the social and networking activities.

• German delegation members were extremely pleased to have the opportunity to experience an ACS regional meeting.

• It costs a lot of money and time to make this type of activity a success, so funding and engagement of volunteers is the most difficult part of the event.

• All involved must keep on top of every aspect of the plans and anticipate many surprises.


Outstanding Local Section Younger Chemists Committee

Katie Heroux2015 Chair ElectSavannah River Local Section

American Chemical Society – Leadership Institute

Savannah River SectionYounger Chemists Committee

Katie J. Heroux – 2013-2014 YCC Chair

2013 Highlights:-67 members led by 1 Chair and 2 co-Chairs-Most active year to date: hosted 9 events on $500 budget-Also participated in NCW and SEED activities-Variety of educational/community outreach, career development, and social networking events in the CSRA-Established a partnership with the Salvation Army of North Augusta-Increased visibility and volunteer participation among local college students-Received ChemLuminary Award for Outstanding Local Section YCC



‘Kitchen Chemistry’ at the Children’s

Hospital of Georgia

Nanotechnology demonstrations at local schools

Educational and Community Outreach

‘Gross, Gooey, and Ghoulish Science Experiments’ at the Salvation Army

Volunteer appreciation


“A date with science: dinner and dessert chemistry”“Putting your best foot forward: managing your paper and

online resumes”


Career Development

Social Networking

Program-in-a-Box Webinars

Georgia Regents University

Careers in Chemistry Q&A with college and high school students

University of South Carolina-Aiken Social Networking

Augusta GreenJackets

Baseball

Pizza kick-off meeting

Holiday Social & Toy Drive

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