Creating and Maintaining Community Relations as an oSTEM Chapter

oSTEM 2024 Annual Conference Portland, OROct 17, 20243:30 PM - 4:30 PMB117,B118,B119 Is your chapter hoping to engage community partners to inspire, share skills and wisdom, and provide opportunities to your members? If so, this session is for you. The goal of this session is to share a framework for interacting with potential and existing community partners (i.e., government, businesses, non-profits, etc.) and fostering meaningful relations that benefit both parties. Our chapter will discuss what these partnerships may look like. Then, we will use our newly-formed relationship with NASA as an example, and walk through how we fostered this relationship and what both parties gained from it. We will discuss what materials a chapter should consider to prepare and discuss how tasks from company partners can be delegated using committees to divide responsibilities. Participants will learn strategies for communicating and identifying these needs of their chapter; while also tips for setting clear and reasonable requests with partners. TIME ACTIVITY 5min Welcome and Introductions 10min Community Partnerships: oSTEM & NASA 10min Tools to leverage your connections 5min Relationship Building Tips and Tricks 15min Discussion Activity: Impromptu Networking Groups of 3-4 strangers who represent chapters and different sized chapters One finger - Small Chapter (<10 active members) Two fingers - Medium Chapter (11-30 active members) Three fingers - Large Chapter (>30 active members) Task: Review the discussion questions. What has made your community partnerships successful? (Established Chapters) What challenges was your chapter faced in obtaining partnerships? (Less Established Chapters) Share your experience and ideas with your colleagues, In each round, ~1 minutes per person to answer the questions. 4-5 min. per round, 3 rounds Return to your table Volunteers to Share out - last 5 minutes oSTEM Resources oSTEM at University of Houston Website Promotional Slide Deck Company Database Meeting Note Tempate Social Media: Instagram Linkedin for Student Org NASA Resources NASA Earthdata To sign-up to receive announcements for upcoming webinars: Send an email to: [email protected] leave the subject and body of the email blank. Get NASA Earth science data news in your inbox: Sign up for the ESDS Monthly Newsletter NASA Earthdata X: @NASAEarthdata , NASA Earthdata Facebook NASA Internships and Fellowships CONNECT CJ Gilmore, [email protected], LinkedIn Profile Elizabeth Joyner, [email protected], LinkedIn Profile