PNWS AWWA Young Professionals Spring 2016 Trustee Report

PNWS AWWA Young Professionals
Spring 2016 Trustee Report
Thank you Trustees once again for your support this year! We’re proud to share with you a few
examples of events and activities we’ve held since our last update in January. Below are summaries of
what we have been up to in the past few months and what we have planned for the future.
PNWS YP Sub-Section Events
PNWS-AWWA Engineering Committee YPs – Puget Sound Engineering Council’s annual
Engineering Fest
On Saturday, February 6, the PNWS-AWWA Engineering Committee
managed the AWWA booth at the Puget Sound Engineering
Council’s annual Engineering Fest at the Museum of Flight, which
coincides with National Engineers Week. The Fair is open to the
public, with the target audience being K-12 students and their
parents, and has about 25 display booths, staffed by practicing
engineers and technical people from local chapters of engineering
societies, colleges, and businesses.
As with last year, the booth was sponsored by the King County
Subsection. We were able to show kids how we filter water using a
simple filtration model, as well as show them a Ground Water
model that Tacoma Water allowed us to use. Thank you Tacoma
Water!
The kids LOVED the mood pencils provided by PNWS-AWWA
Engineering Committee, the AWWA bags provided by National
AWWA, and coloring books which were provided by the
Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District. The major items of
discussion with the adults included long showers, Flint Water, and
how we get clean water.
Once again, a BIG thanks go out to all our volunteers from the
Engineering Committee and the Young Professionals which
included Lynn (Williams) Stephens, Anh Quach, Joshua Kennedy,
Alex Fussell, and Joanie Stultz. They were a big help!
April 22, 2016
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Northwest Washington Young Professionals – Happy Hour Networking Event
On March 21st, the PNW AWWA subsection held a happy
hour networking event at Rock Bottom Restaurant and
Brewery. We had AWWA’ers from several local consulting
firms Carollo, Brown and Caldwell, and Tetra Tech. The
“Flocculators” won fifth place in the trivia night, and took
home a nice gift certificate to use for the next trivia night!
Thanks all who made it out to Rock Bottom. We look
forward to the next event soon.
2020 Vision: Uniting YPs and the Water Industry – Career Fairs
At the Section Conference in Bellevue last year Chairman Randy Black announced the formation of the
2020 Vision Initiative, in which he laid out a plan to improve recruitment for our industry. In laying out
this plan Randy issued a challenge to members of the section to have every subsection participate in 2
career fairs in the coming year for a total of 24
Section-wide. While we didn’t meet that goal this
year, we did manage to participate in 12 events.
More importantly than that many members of the
organization have put in a lot of hard work building a
framework and creating resources to insure success
in the future.
Going in to next year PNWS-AWWA will be providing
each subsection with a complete career fair booth
professionally designed by the Portland based
company Fish Marketing. In addition to items created
by the team at Fish, the 2020 Vision team has created
an Event Toolbox and many supporting resources
that are all available on the 2020 Vision Initiative Committee Website.
We want to give a big thank you to the Cascade to Coast Subsection. They have been extremely busy
and ambitious, participating in 7 career fairs this school year. The big push in the Willamette Valley has
been recruiting students from Oregon State University in Corvallis to join our organization. OSU
accounted for 3 of the events Cascade to Coast participated in. With any luck we will soon be able to
support a student chapter there as well.
April 22, 2016
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The National AWWA/WEF Young Professional’s Summit: San Diego, CA
The National YP Summit was held in San
Diego, CA on February 23rd-24th. Julie
Smitherman and Daniel Reisinger attended
this year and learned about workplace
communication, career advancement,
organization & leadership, and how to be a
strong Chair leader. This year was the second
year that there was a whole day dedicated to
Chair training. The AWWA Chair Training was
invaluable for learning more about the
Association and its resources, as well as learn
new ideas from other sections. Similarly, the
YP Summit provided the opportunity to learn
valuable skills from seasoned and other
young professionals. Thank you Trustees for
the opportunity to attend and learn from
these great events!
Corianne Hart, Enoch Nicholson, AWWA Chief Executive Officer David
LaFrance, Daniel Reisinger, Julie Smitherman, President of AWWA Gene
Koontz, Suzanne DeLorenzo
PNCWA & King County – Tour of the Old Castle
On Friday April 29, 2016 from 2p.m. to 4p.m., the PNCWA S&YP and King County Subsection PNWSAWWA YPs are inviting you to a tour of the Old Castle precast facility in Auburn, WA! Then afterward,
a social hour at Rio Blanco Family Mexican Restaurant. What you will learn; how structures are cast,
dry casting versus wet casting, precasting of the Seattle Seawall, fab shop and coring shop, applications
for precast products, research and development, what is locally available and what can be custom,
what it’s like to work for a manufacturer.
April 22, 2016
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Upcoming Events
2016 PNWS Annual Conference – Boise, ID May 5th-7th
Scholarships
We have received an overwhelming response to the Conference Scholarship program this year. We
suspect this is partly because of our successes in reaching more students and YPs in recent outreach
efforts. We will be awarding 12 scholarships for a total of $4,400 to help students and YPs attend! We
asked applicants to write an essay on why they wanted to attend. Their responses reflected a deep
sentiment to connect with seasoned professionals and find more ways to become involved. We also
asked them to fill out an expense report so that we would know exactly what their financial needs
were to get to the conference, especially since the conference is in Boise this year. Six of the
recipients are participating in the Fresh Ideas Poster Competition and the other six are from Walla
Walla Community College enrolled in the Water Operators Program.
Fresh Ideas Poster Competition
This year’s Fresh Ideas Competition will be held on Thursday May 5th from 10:30am – 1:30p.m. in the
Salmon Room. The students will have a room to
present in and judges will be supplied with a table for
taking notes. Posters will be displayed on the wall
between 10:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. for judging and for
anyone else who wants to stop by to see what new
and innovative ideas these students have to offer.
There are six students presenting this year and we
have we have lined up a few AWWA members to
judge the competition. First place winner will have
the honor of representing the Pacific Northwest at
the national ACE's Fresh Ideas Program in Chicago,
Illinois June 19-22, 2016 (airfare, hotel expenses and
conference fees up to $1,500 will be reimbursed).
The YP Committee has been working closely with the LAC to organize this event. We thank you so
much for your assistance!
April 22, 2016
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2016 Boise Conference Scavenger Hunt
The 12th Annual YP Scavenger is scheduled for the evening of May 5th at this year’s annual conference
in Boise, ID! This is an incredible opportunity to get to know many of the Young Professionals in our
section as well as network with other seasoned professionals in the water industry, and of course,
have a lot of fun!! A new idea for this year’s scavenger hunt is to use a hashtag for pictures taken
during the hunt and have them post to Instagram. We will meet in the lobby of the Grove Hotel at
6:30p.m. to begin the scavenger hunt. Everyone is welcome to join us at the RH2’s final destination
venue at, Beside Bardenay.
Our sponsors have generously given us $3,600 to host the Scavenger this year!! Not only did our
consultant firms donate this year, several of our sub-sections stepped up and sponsored the scavenger
hunt! We would love to thank our following sponsors:
Venue Hosts:
RH2 and MSA
Partner Sponsors:
Kennedy Jenks, Southern Oregon Subsection, Southern Oregon Water Mafia, Ferguson Waterworks,
and Mueller
Patron Sponsors:
DN Tanks, HDR, NW OR Subsection, City of Longview, South Sound Subsection, and Central
Washington Subsection
The LAC has helped us greatly with printing signs and flyers to promote our event and thank our
sponsors. Please look out for all the YPs on Thursday night at the conference and help us welcome
them to the AWWA family.
April 22, 2016
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Pioneer Award
The YP Committee Trustee Liaison received six excellent nominations for the Pioneer Award for 2016.
These nominees excelled in Community Involvement, Leadership and Technical Expertise. Judges
including the past Pioneer Award winner and a few Board Members selected a winner, which will be
announced during the Friday Banquet at the conference. Thank you Jennifer Garbely for organizing this
award!
Next Committee Meeting
This year’s conference committee meeting will be held in the Friday May 6th in the River Fork Room at
12:00p.m. We will give out the awards for the scavenger hunt, discuss the YP Committee organization
& nominations for Co-Chair, and get an update on the 2020 vision.
Follow us on Social Media
Communications
The Young Professionals Committee has kept a steady presence on social media
throughout the year. The Facebook page is updated at least weekly with event,
job and training announcements, and we continue to get new followers. Kristen
Brastad has taken over as our Communications Coordinator. Our page has seen
an increase in followers in the past year, with a total of 293 followers, each post
reaching 50 people on average. Visit our Facebook page: PNWS of AWWA Young
Professionals to stay connected with us!
Also, check out our events calendar on the PNWS website for information on upcoming YP and Student
events at www.pnws-awwa.org. To submit information on events and/or pictures please contact
Kristen Brastad at [email protected]
For questions about the YP Committee, please contact YP Chair Julie Smitherman at
[email protected] or Co-Chair Daniel Reisinger at [email protected]
Thank you for all of your support!
Respectfully submitted,
Julie Smitherman
Julie Smitherman, Chair YP Committee
April 22, 2016
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PNWS - AWWA YOUNG PROFESSIONALS LEADERSHIP
Position
Trustee Liason
Chair
Co-Chair
Communications Coordinator
Meeting Minutes
Career Fair Coordinator
Student Chapter Coordinator
Fresh Ideas Coordinator
Scavenger Hunt Coordinator
Scavenger Hunt Committee
Scavenger Hunt Committee
Scavenger Hunt Committee
YP Summit Coordinator
YP Summit Organizer
YP Summit Organizer
YP Summit Organizer
2020 Vision Coordinator
2020 Committee Co-Chair
2020 Committee
2020 Committee
2020 Committee
2020 Committee
2020 Committee
2020 Committee
2020 Committee
Other Active Members
Name
Organization
Jennifer Garbely
Ken\
Julie Smitherman
City of Ashland
Daniel Reisinger
Carollo
Kristen Brastad
Halo Source
Aurelie Nabonnand
Carollo
Kevin WyCkoff
EWEB
Brian Smith
Wilson Engineering
Dainiel Reisinger
Carollo
Kysa Cronrath
City of Hillsboro
Rich Reavis
Pharmer Engineering
Michael Lubovich
Parametrix
Aurelie Nabonnand
Carollo
Jennifer Garbely
MSA
Kysa Cronrath
City of Hillsboro
Chris Young
DN Tanks
Jenn Minton
Carollo
Rich Reavis
Pharmer Engineering
Kevin WyCkoff
EWEB
Randy Black& Christie Butler
Lakewood Water
Kristen Brastad
Halo Source
Jacki Masters
Mt. View Edgewood Water Company
Brian Smith
Wilson Engineering
Dan Kegley
City of Spokane
Lacey Goeres-Priest
City of Salem
John Roth
City of Washougal
Bridget August
Geo Engineers
Chris Stoll
Kennedy Jenks
Joanie Stultz
Brown & Caldwell
Lynn Williams
Brown & Caldwell
Anthony Wellington-Buttice
Walla Walla
Elizabeth Edgar
Sunrise Water
Ronda Farmer
Spanaway Water
Kelsey Vandebergh
AECOM
Eric Schey
Tetra Tech
Ray Lipin
Email
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PNWS - AWWA YOUNG PROFESSIONALS LEADERSHIP
Position
Name
Organization
Email
Sub-Section Liaisons
Northwest Washington
Central Washington
Sub-Section Contact
Inland Empire
Sub-Section Contact
King County
Sub-Section Contact
Cascade Coast
Sub-Section Contact
Southwest Idaho
Sub-Section Contact
Northwest Oregon
Sub-Section Contact
Southern Oregon
Sub-Section Contact
Lower Columbia
Sub-Section Contact
Eastern Oregon
Sub-Section Contact
South Sound
Sub-Section Contact
Blue Mountain
Sub-Section Contact
Bridget August
open
Michael Norton
Anthony Wellington-Buttice
Patty Newman
James Dean
Jeremy Jenkins
Kristen Zimmer
Dan Kegley
Lynn Williams
Josh Kennedy
Tom Keown
Kevin WyCkoff
open
Laura Farthing
John Boyd
LaDonne Harris
Bill Carr
Josh Gilchrist
Ryan Carney
Bob Ward
Julie Smitherman
open
Max Woody
open
open
John Roth
open
open
Tammy Rogers
Michael Lubovich
open
Jacki Mastaers
open
open
Cory Baune
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2016 Young Professionals Conference Scholarships $4,000 Plus $800 from SAC Budget
Name
Recipient Address
School
Program
Amount Awarded
Bashar Aldaomi
5770 SW Cranberry Ct.
Beaverton, OR 97007
Portland State University
Fresh Ideas
$
500.00
Huan He
University of Washington
4000 15th Ave NE 324A More
Hall Seattle, WA 98195
University of Washington
Fresh Ideas
$
500.00
Muhanned Al-Murib
1604 SW Clay St.
Portland, OR 97201
Portland State University
Fresh Ideas
$
350.00
Sharmin Sultana
2426 NW Grant Ave.
Corvallis, OR 97330
Oregon State University
Fresh Ideas
$
500.00
Taylor Enos
303 N. 2nd St. Apt. #6
Boise, ID 83702
Boise State University
Fresh Ideas
$
50.00
Tessora Young
1258 Eastlake Ave. E Apt. #9
Seattle, WA 98102
University of Washington
Fresh Ideas
$
500.00
Walla Walla CC
Professor
$
2,004.00
Walla Walla CC
Walla Walla CC
Walla Walla CC
Walla Walla CC
Walla Walla CC
Student
Student
Student
Student
Student
Jason Selwitz
Ken Larkins
Jarrod Burden
Chris Madsen
Luke Kromm
Clarence Hill
Total
Total Funds
Balance
Walla Walla Community College
Attn: Jason Selwitz, Plant
Operations
500 Tausick Way Walla Walla,
WA 99362
$
4,404.00
$
4,800.00
$
396.00
Deadline:
February 29,
2016
Call for Abstracts
Posters will be presented to judges and
industry professionals on Thursday
May 5, 2016 in Boise, Idaho.
Attend the Northwest's premier water conference:
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Present your research or class project.
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Learn alongside professionals.
Learn More on Facebook:
PNWS-of-AWWA-Young-Professionals
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Network with the region's best employers.
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Win cash prizes up to $150.
Get the Application:
https://sites.google.com/a/pnwsawwa.org/young-professionals/home
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1st Place will represent PNWS at the AWWA
National Conference in Chicago (expenses paid
up to $1,500)
Boise Conference scholarships available.
Contact Dan Reisinger with questions at
[email protected]