Exploring Occupations Online

https://www.onetonline.org/

Maintained by the U.S.Department of Labor

Ret, 5-27-16

Identifying & Stopping Bullying

Excerpt from a Reader's Digest article

"One Teacher’s Brilliant Strategy to Stop Bullying"

Here's how one schoolteacher takes time each week to look out for the lonely.

By Glennon Doyle Melton

Every Friday afternoon, she asks her students to take out a piece of paper and write down the names of four children with whom they’d like to sit the following week. The children know that these requests may or may not be honored. She also asks the students to nominate one student who they believe has been an 
exceptional classroom citizen that week. All ballots are privately submitted to her.

And every single Friday afternoon, after the students go home, she takes out those slips of paper, places them in front of her, and studies them. 
She looks for patterns.

Who is not getting requested by anyone else?

Who can’t think of anyone to 
request?

Who never gets noticed enough 
to be nominated?

Who had a million friends last week and none this week?

You see, Chase’s teacher is not looking for a new seating chart or “exceptional citizens.” Chase’s teacher is looking for lonely children. She’s looking for children who are struggling to connect with other children. She’s identifying the little ones who are falling through the cracks of the class’s social life. She is discovering whose gifts are going unnoticed 
by their peers. And she’s pinning down—right away—who’s being bullied and who is doing the bullying.

As a teacher, parent, and lover of all children, I think this is the most brilliant Love Ninja strategy I have ever 
encountered. It’s like taking an X-ray of a classroom to see 
beneath the surface 
of things and into the hearts of students. 
It is like mining for gold—the gold being those children who need a little help, who need adults to step in and teach them how to make friends, how to ask others to play, how to 
join a group, or how to share their gifts. And it’s a bully deterrent 
because every teacher knows that bullying usually happens outside her eyeshot and that often kids being bullied are too intimidated to share. But, as she said, the truth comes out on those safe, private, little sheets 
of paper.

As Chase’s teacher explained 
this simple, ingenious idea, I stared at her with my mouth hanging open. “How long have you been using this system?” I said.

Ever since Columbine, she said. Every single Friday afternoon since Columbine. Good Lord.

This brilliant woman watched 
Columbine knowing that all violence begins with disconnection. All outward violence begins as inner loneliness. She watched that tragedy knowing that children who aren’t being noticed may eventually resort to being noticed by any means necessary.

And so she decided to start fighting violence early and often in the world within her reach. What Chase’s teacher 
is doing when she sits in her empty classroom studying those lists written with shaky 11-year-old hands is saving lives. I am convinced of it.

And what this mathematician 
has learned while using this system is something she really already knew: that everything—even love, even 
belonging—has a pattern to it. She finds the patterns, and through those lists she breaks the codes of disconnection. Then she gets lonely kids the help they need. It’s math to her. It’s math.

All is love—even math. Amazing.

Chase’s teacher retires this year. What a way to spend a life: looking for patterns of love and loneliness. Stepping in, every single day, and 
altering the trajectory of our world.

http://www.rd.com/advice/parenting/stop-bullying-strategy/  

Ret. 5-18-16

El Reno's SSS End-of-Year Mentor-Mentee Event

Many Oklahoma mentoring programs have an end-of-year mentor appreciation event as brunch, lunch, or dinner. From the program's launch in 2013, however, El Reno School Foundation's Students Striving for Success has closed its year with a fun mentor-mentee activity.














Suzanne Thompson, catalyst for Students Striving for Success, a trustee of the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence, and a Students Striving for Success mentor, reported upon the event.

Richard Steanson and Gerardo Troncosco,
Students Striving for Success board
members and mentors, line up the mentees.

"The El Reno Bowl was the party setting for the end of school fun day for El Reno's Students Striving for Success mentors and mentees. Pizza, bowling and hanging out with friends have become an annual event for this group which includes ninety-six students and as many adults.  

This mentoring program has helped our children feel connected to their community and given them encouragement to be active participants in its success."

Curtis Jones, 2015 Mentor of the Year for Students Striving
for Success, and Kenneth, his mentee

How precious are these lovely mentees? Absolutely priceless!

Celebrations always include food.

El Reno Superintendent
Craig McVay & Lathon, his mentee

Mark Gibson & Seth

Mark Gibson & Nick

Dana Gibson,SSS chairman
& mentor,  with Sam

Dana Gibson & Caitlyn

About the 2014 event

http://okmentor.blogspot.com/2014/05/students-striving-for-success-mentor.html

Sample Survey from Mentoring Event

While objective stories tug at people's hearts and sometimes recruit volunteers and/or money, data and evaluation are essential. Below we share a survey template from the FIRST Women in STEM Reception 2016.

Adapt this for any speaker/informational event or share your own evaluation. We have added a few suggestions from the internal actual report about the event.

Thanks to Barbara Wollmershauser of Tulsa Engineering Foundation for sharing.

Robotics Competitor/Mentee

Robotics Competitor/Mentee

SURVEY for MENTEES

Question	Strongly Agree	Agree	Neutral	Disagree	Strongly Disagree	Didn’t Answer	Total
1.    Before this event, I knew engineers have various job functions
2.    Engineers are innovative.
3.    Engineers are creative.
4.    Engineers perform hands-on job functions.
5.    Engineers work in many different career fields.
6.    Before this event, I was interested in becoming an engineer.
7.    After this event, I was interested in becoming an engineer.
8.    The guest speaker was informative and engaging.
9.    Engineers do work that enables them to help the community.
10.  I see a connection between my interests/passions & engineering.

EXPENSES *
Printing -
Food -
Giveaways/Door Prizes, e.g., pins, books, etc. -
Signage -
Other -
Staff hours and value if applicable -
Volunteer hours and value -
TOTAL
      * A detailed budget is essential, but reporting can grouped and rounded to nearest dollar.

ATTENDEES
# of  Mentees
# of Mentors
# of Other Volunteers, Staff, and/or Board

OTHER
Excel spreadsheets for relevant detailed data
Organizations represented
Disciplines represented
Sponsors/Donors
Planning committee & tasks assigned
Volunteer hours (before, at and after event)
Sample program and/or brochure

PRE- and POST-PUBLICITY
Which media - newspaper, newsletter, social media, etc.
Frequency or amount, e.g., shares on Facebook, picture with caption, article, etc.


A selected combination of these becomes the blueprint from which to evaluate for both impact and improvement and create future events.

FIRST Women in STEM Reception 2016, Part II, Speaker

Presentation by Thelma Gutierrez-Anderson, Sr. SCM Manager with Eaton Corporation

WHAT DOES AN ENGINEER LOOK LIKE IN FIRST GRADE?

Anderson’s friends were little girls with physical and background differences, but they eventually shared the goal of, perseverance for, and accomplishment of becoming engineers. Also, these friends are in different engineering disciplines.

HATING MATH

In elementary school Gutierrez-Anderson hated math and science. In middle school, however, a fantastic science and math teacher helped her discover and love algebra.

Thelma had earned all A’s through seventh grade.  Her male high school counselor, while enrolling her in eighth grade, said she needed to have all honors classes. Thelma admitted that she was incredibly shy, didn’t talk, and didn’t raise her hand. Still she enrolled in those honors classes.

                                                                                     WHAT AN ENGINEER LOOKS LIKE

Then and now

ABOUT HER FAMILY

Thelma is a first-generations American. Her parents spoke little English, but they hammered education. Barely above the poverty line, her parents stressed, “You are going to college,” although they didn’t know how to pay for it.

Her counselor pitched Thelma’s attending the Science Academy of South Texas, established in 1989 as a regional, public tuition-free magnet school focusing on science, technology, engineering, and math. She seized the opportunity, although it meant that she had to ride a bus to the school and catch a second bus from there for a thirty-minute ride one way. Each year she had STEM classes. During her freshman year, she built a robot out of Popsicle sticks, a syringe, and water for fluid, and the bot actually picked up a ball. Thelma was in the academy’s first graduating class.

Her college advisor encouraged her to apply for an internship with Eaton, but she was too tired, only a freshman—she could intern later, and she did not have enough time with the challenging courses. In fact, her advisor made her go to his office, sit down right there, and apply. Awarded the scholarship, she interned at Eaton each summer, Eaton gave her a scholarship, and when she graduated from college, she worked and still works for Eaton.

Last September, she moved to Oklahoma. Prior to that, she worked in Minnesota for twelve years. Gladly, she traded snow for tornadoes. Eaton manages power for other companies. At Shawnee, she manages the supply chain for motors that go into harvesters, construction and other equipment. 

ENGINEERING SKILL SET

Once you can problem-solve, you can apply the techniques to other aspects of life or jobs. For example, Thelma earned her degree in electrical engineering. At Eaton, she has become a design engineer, a manufacturing engineer, a marketing manager (five years with four rotations in three years), and a supply chain manager (her third role in supply chain). While in manufacturing, Eaton placed her in its Leadership Development Program.   

[Eaton’s corporate leadership development program with five separate areas prepares participants for future functional and/or technological leadership positions by offering added rotational assignments, experience with Eaton’s new products and technologies, high- level interaction, networking, and formal training in technical skills and leadership. In short, LDP participants are trained, and mentored for larger responsibilities at higher management levels.]

A strong advocate for women in leadership, Thelma added that at Eaton management analyzes how to get more women into senior management positions.

THELMA's 10 RULES OF THUMB

• Mentors—Formal  or Informal

Sometimes we don’t recognize who our mentors are. They are the people cheering for you or trying to get you on a team. If you recognize them, ask them to be a formal mentor.

• Candid Conversations

Learn how to have a candid conversation on a topic that is not fun or pleasant, e.g., with       customers, peers, subordinates, and others. Some people try to be polite, but that is often   awkward and uncomfortable. You must have a relationship with people with whom you are   having a serious conversation. That relationship means they will know you care about them. Without a relationship, you may come off as a jerk or someone out to harm them.

• Ambiguity

Learn how to deal with ambiguity. Like many engineers, Thelma likes to have all the numbers, all the pieces of the puzzle. Sometimes, however, you must make a decision without all the data.

• Continuous Improvement

Continuously think about how to improve. People and organizations get used to doing           something one way because they always have. Be lean. Think about how to do something   easier, faster, and/or more efficiently. Document what you do and think. If you do X, you can improve.

• Business Acumen

Know your customers, suppliers, competitors, and others, i.e., know your business.
[“Business acumen is keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a business situation in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.” Components are “an acute perception of the dimensions of business issues,” making “sense out of complexity and an uncertain future,” being “mindful of the implications of a choice for all the affected parties,” being “decisive” and “flexible” if warranted. Reilly & Reilly]

• Business Strategy

Know how to develop business strategy. For example, Thelma managed a $45 million product line and grew it to $85 million in five years. No one told her how. She had to figure it out. Seasoned professionals around her were not her teachers. Learning opportunities and risks, she created, or engineered, a path to growth.

• Business Financials

Opportunity and pitches fall flat without numbers. Although Thelma hates accounting, she had to overcome her gap and is now comfortable with financial numbers. 

Don’t downplay your efforts. Sometimes frustrated, Thelma couldn’t see where she was going. When people ask her how she did or accomplished something, she tells them.  

• Mistakes

Acknowledge your mistakes. Thelma said that she made many, many of which she had the   opportunity to fix. She always learned from her mistakes.

• Stretch

Stretch yourself. For Thelma, stretching herself was not comfortable. She—you—must be     willing to adapt. Change is hard for many. If Thelma needs to change because the customer is changing, the global economy is changing, or other factors change, she changes. You must change when necessary.

• Inspire

Inspire others. Thelma may not be the youngest person in a room. Still sometimes she is the only woman present. She as well as Eaton wants other women in manufacturing and in         leadership positions.

Gutierrez-Anderson talking with FIRST
competitors/mentees

Q & A

What does a supply chain manager do? 

A manufacturing company cannot build a product without components from other companies. Getting and producing products involves time, transportation, the right supplies, material flow, risk, alignment with the company’s or the business world’s growth plan, and more. For example, Gutierrez-Anderson said that a motor might take four weeks of lead time whereas the materials to make it make take 20 weeks. She defined lead time as “the amount of time to get your product.”

Supply chain managers guess or forecast, order, and plan. As an example, supply chain risks are a company’s going out of business, anticipating financials, noncompliance with laws or regulations, and supplier capacity. A supply chain manager must keep tabs on the markets. For instance, she predicts a spike in demand for equipment in Brazil because of the Olympics. Also, although Eaton does not make robots, robots are used in manufacturing. What impacts robots or robotics is noteworthy.

[For one supply chain job description, read or Google the topic. 

http://www.careersinsupplychain.org/job-roles-profiles/roles.asp]

ABOUT EATON

Eaton manages helps other companies manage power. Eaton’s three areas are fluid, hydraulic, and mechanical power.

Gutierrez-Anderson has worked for Eaton so long—about 20 years—because its values closely align with her own.  Eaton

• Does business right

• Promotes safety

• Promotes environmental sustainability

• Promotes more inclusivity

Eaton helps other businesses such as Boeing, John Deere, Airbus, Ford, and Chrysler do more with less by managing power in more effective ways. Eaton designs ways for client companies to have sustainability, reduce cost, reduce energy, and more. Eaton’s power management assistance extends into electrical, aerospace, hydraulic, LEED, liquid energy, food production, hydraulics, and vehicles among other business areas. In short, indirectly Eaton touches all of our lives.

When Gutierrez-Anderson began at Eaton, the company was at $4 ½ billion and now it is a $21 billion company with a diverse culture. Eaton has research and development (R&D), strong leadership, many other strong areas, and an international presence. When she began, Eaton had only one innovation center. Now it has five with over 10,000 patents. Gutierrez-Anderson said that attendees should explore future career opportunities at Eaton.

http://www.eaton.com/Eaton/index.htm

FIRST Women in STEM Reception 2016, Part III, Attendees

Adrianne Graham Covington
opens the program.

The Women in STEM Reception, hosted by the Society of Women Engineers (OKC and Tulsa sections) Oklahoma Engineering Foundation and Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance, not only had a successful program but also sharp, enthusiastic participants. We are so proud of all--adults and students--who participated. A list of participants follows. Some robotics team attendees have attended the reception two years in a row as have some of the mentors.

Thelma Gutierrez-Anderson, the keynote speaker,
talks with a Tulsa team coach mentor.

Listening to Adrianne Graham-Covington introduce Thelma Gutierrez-Anderson

HIGH SCHOOL TEAMS

88 high school girls attended from 22 FIRST Robotics Teams. High schools represented:

Chickasha Cockadoodle Dominators' team
spirit to the max worn by a two-year
FIRST competitor and reception attendee

• MC Robo, Adair, Chocteau and Pryor High Schools, Oklahoma, and Salina High School, Kansas

• Robo Hornets, Booker T. Washington High School, Tulsa

• Ohms Claw,Broken Arrow High School, Broken Arrow

• Commandobots, Cascia Hall, Tulsa

• Cockadoodle Dominators, Chickasha Public Schools, Chickasha

Cascia Hall Commandobots and sponsor
with Mexico's Roult competitors

• Jankopotamus, Deer Creek High School, Edmond

• Hostile Gato, Fort Gibson High School, Fort Gibson

• Sprockets, Gordon Cooper Technology Center, Shawnee

• Code Green, Green Country Technology Center, Okmulgee

• FROG, Grove High School, Grove

• KTC Monsters, Haworth and Idabel High Schoolsi, Haworth and Idabel

• Radioactive Robotics, Homeshool, Blanchard

• Roult, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Laguna, Torreón Coahuila México

• Metal Mayhem, Latta and Stonewall High Schools, Latta and Stonewall

• Prime Movers, Jenks High School, Tulsa

• MacBotics, MacArthur High School, Lawton

• Circuit Chargers, Memorial High School, Tulsa

Too much fun chatting before
the program begins.

• Omega Factor, Mustang High School, Mustang

• RaileRobotics, Newton High School, Newton, Kansas

• STING-R, North Kansas City High School, Kansas City

• Ninja Munkees, OKC 40H Robotics, Oklahoma City

• Team Scream, Smith-Cotton High School, Sedalia, Missouri

STUDENT RESOURCES PROVIDED

• 78 copies of Is There An Engineer Inside You? by Celeste Baine 

• Be That Engineer posters from SWE 

To quote Barbara Wollsmerhauser, this book "gives insight in how to work with your professors, co-ops and internships, the diversity of careers within the many engineering fields, the 'WOW' careers in engineering as well as the 43 'faces' of engineering." 

Download your own free copy at

http://tulsaengineer.org/societies/swe/

                

TABLE MENTORS

Table mentors attended from 15 different organizations. Five were college women from Oklahoma State University and Southwestern Oklahoma State University. Two represented the OSU chapter of Alpha Omega Epsilon, International Engineering Society, which is supportive of FIRST at the national level.

Jackie Pearson, table mentor and electronics engineer
at Tinker AFB, engages her mentees.

Disciplines Table mentors present represented aerospace, chemical, civil-water resources, computer, construction management technology, electrical, electronic, industrial, manufacturing engineering technology, manufacturing, mechanical, metallurgical & materials, petroleum, process/safety, structural and systems engineering.

Role of Table Mentors 
Generally two engineers sit at each table, meet the students, inquire about the students' interests and education goals, and often share their own experiences as well as their love for engineering and the reasons they chose engineering careers. 

Barbara Wollmershauser, mechanical
engineer, generates much excitement
over the drawing for door prizes. 

Recognition & Gratitude Attendees have tremendous gratitude for all of these women who shared their time and experience to inspire younger women to pursue engineering. Their companies or institutions also merit appreciation since they supported the mentors' leaving work early to participate. Some engineers and instructors had even been coaching robotics teams to attend the FIRST competition.

Tulsan competitor receiving a door prize from
Martha Walker, aerospace engineer.

• Upeksha Addagatla, aerospace, Boeing, Tinker Air Force Base, Midwest City

• Amanda Adney, manufacturing & computer engineering technology, SWOSU, Weatherford

• Terry Anderson, aerospace, TDA Consulting, Oklahoma City

• Bobbie Back, secondary math education, OSU, Pryor

• Tonya Backward, industrial, MidAmerica Industrial Park, Pryor

• Xan Black, petroleum, Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance

• Adrianne Covington Graham, executive director, Oklahoma Engineering Foundation,

  

  Ingrid Law, SWOSU SWE Section president,
  mentoring a group of competitors

  Oklahoma City

• Leslie Crissup, chemical, Enable Midstream, Oklahoma City

• Stephanie Dozier, structural, Boeing, Tinker AFB

• Dana Drake, metallurgical/materials, Tinker AFB

• Thelma Gutierrez-Anderson, electrical, Eaton, Shawnee

A Gordon Cooper Technology robotics team competitor/mentee
and Terry Anderson, aerospace engineer, enjoy a conversation.

• Subashini Iyer, mechanical, Boeing

• Ingrid Law, engineering/manufacturing technology, SWOSU SWE Section president, Weatherford

• Lizzie Long, mechanical, Alpha Omega Epsilon, OSU, Stillwater

• Ilze Long, process/safety, OGE, Oklahoma City

Registration: Martha Walker,
aerospace engineer, Tinker AFB, and
Ilze Long, process/safety engineer, OG&E

• Jackie Pearson, electronic, Tinker AFB

• Erin Roark, construction management technology, Alpha Omega Epsilon, OSU, Stillwater

• Tiler Rose, manufacturing, SWOSU student, Weatherford

• Caroline Short, civil - water resources, Olsson Associates, Oklahoma City

• Sandra Snelling, aerospace, Tinker AFB

• Sarah Staggs, mechanical & aerospace, Boeing

• Kim Thomas, computer science, OU, Norman

• Martha Walker, aerospace, Tinker AFB

• Barbara Wollmershauser, mechanical, Tulsa Engineering Foundation

• Bev Woodrome, director, Boren Mentoring Initiative, Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence

• Haylie Zarate, systems, Boeing

Engineering really rules this sign conveys,

PLANNING COMMITTEE

• Leslie Crissup, SWE OKC Section President, Enable Midstream
• Dana Drake, SWE OKC, Tinker AFB (also designed the event brochure)
• Martha Walker, SWE OKC, Tinker AFB
• Barbara Wollmershauser, SWE Tulsa Northeast Oklahoma Section; Society of Women Engineers, Past National President; Tulsa Engineering Foundation, Board Member; and Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance, Innovation Room Lead
• Adrianne Covington Graham, Oklahoma Engineering Foundation

SPEAKERS

Keynote 

Thelma Gutierrez-Anderson, Senior SCM Manager at Eaton Corporation

Opening Remarks 

Adrianne Covington Graham, Executive Director, Oklahoma Engineering Foundation, and 

Leslie Crissup, SWE – OKC Section President

Closing Remarks 

Xan Black, SWE – Tulsa Northeast OK Section and Program Director of Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance