SPE / Chase Plastics Student Chapter Education Award

SPE / Chase Plastics Student Chapter Education Award

2007 Award Winner

2008 Award Application

The SPE Education Committee encourages all Student Chapters to apply for the 2008 Student Chapter Education Award. This award is sponsored by Chase Plastic Services, Inc. The winning Chapter, as determined by a group of judges appointed by the Education Committee, will receive a prize of $2,500.

The award will be given to the student Chapter that provides the best plan or use for the funds and is based upon not what the Student Chapter has done, but what it will do.

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2007 Award Winner - Western Washington University

The 2007 Student Chapter Education Award is presented to the Western Washington University. This is the 4th year that this award has been sponsored by Chase Plastic Services, Inc., and we thank them for their support. The $2,500 honorarium will be used to further the educational goals of the SPE Student Chapter at WWU.

The students plan to use the money in continuing efforts to help expose underrepresented groups to plastics engineering. High achieving students from the underprivileged Lummi Island Reservation will attend WWU to work an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROC). One of the teams will be selected to enter their ROV into the Marine Advanced Technology Education Center ROV competition. A second program to benefit by the Chase Award funding is the TechREACH program that targets at-risk female middle school students. These girls will participate in fields trips to WWU where they will make plastic parts, tour the engineering buildings, and interact with female college student mentors in the engineering technology program.