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Discover WIE - Episode 1
The first Discover WIE session was held at NFC Faisalabad on 6th May, 2011 and was hosted by IEEE NFC-IEFR. Over a hundred students and IEEE members from eight institutes participated in this event. The speaker on behalf of IEEE PWF was the Chairperson Mehvish Zahoor (IEEE Lahore Section). She introduced IEEE and WIE and explained membership benefits. It was followed by an interactive session with the audience. An activity named ‘Express Your Idea’, where four teams were given 25 minutes to plan within a specified budget. The team with the most innovative ideas and planning was presented an award by Mehvish Zahoor. The session was successful in helping female engineers interact and discover the opportunities that come with an IEEE Membership
Discover WIE - Episode 2
The second Discover WIE session as held at UET Lahore on 19th May, 2011 at the ‘Footsteps of Illustration’ event by IEEE UET, Lahore. The speakers representing IEEE PWF was Chairperson Mehvish Zahoor Newsletter Editor, Rabia Khalid (IEEE Karachi Section) who is also Chairperson IEEE PNEC NUST Student Branch. They gave an enlightening presentation on benefits of IEEE especially for undergraduate students. Rabia Khalid highlighted the differences between Google and IEEE and explained how IEEE holds an upper hand with over 60,000 patents. She also explained IEEE networking and the opportunities that come with it.
Rabia Khalid highlighted important facts about women engineers and the problems they face after graduation. She presented a solution and an easier approach through the network of WIE. The benefits of WIE were discussed including online resources, scholarships, internships, project grants, informative publications and mentorship. This was followed by an interactive discussion on how WIE can help female engineers add stars to their careers
WIE Meetup at IEEE Karachi Section
A WIE Meetup was held on 22nd July 2011 at NED University to share the experience of Pakistani delegates who visited to Auckland for R10 Student/GOLD/WIE Congress. In the meeting Prakash Lohana- Chair IEEE Karachi Section , Dr. Shoaib Zaidi-Chair Electronics Department , Ghauss Junejo-Branch Counsellor of IEEE-NED , Dania Hanif-Chair IEEE Gold ,Muhammad Saad- Chair SAC, Nimrah Hashmi-SSR Karachi Section, Mehwish Zahoor- Chair IEEE PWF , Rabia Khalid & Sana Syed were present. The two representatives from Pakistani Delegate i.e Muhammad Saad & Mehwish Zahoor shared about their journey to R10 Student/GOLD/WIE Congress and the warm welcome they received. The Pakistani Stall achieved great response and caught everyone's attention there. Mehwish Zahoor also presented over there her views on topic "Women Empowerment" in IEEE R10 Student/GOLD/WIE Congress
IEEE WIE Group Photo Award Competition
The Best WIE Group Photo Award has been initiated under the leadership of Mehvish Zahoor (IEEE Lahore Section) and will be managed by Sana Syed (IEEE Karachi Section). The objective behind the project is to encourage team interactions between WIE student branches and hence, IEEE PWF is conducting a Group Photo Contest. Each participating WIE team is to send an innovative group photo to IEEE PWF. The photos will be presented on the IEEE PWF facebook page and a contest will be officially held. The IEEE PWF board members will help in deciding the winner. The winning team will be featured in the 2nd IEEE PWF Newsletter and will be presented a Best Group Photo Award.