Secretary + Marketing Material
Society of Latino Engineers and Scientists
SOLES is San Jose State University's Student Chapter for both the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and MAES- Latinos in Tech. I have been a member and on the board in different positions for about 3 years. This time includes a year as a Science Extravaganza Co-Chair / Treasurer and a year as the SOLES Secretary.
As part of my roles with the Society of Latino Engineers and Scientists I would constantly promote the organization and deploy strategies to increase our membership and during the time I was on the board, we saw an increase of over 100 students in peak membership! This was done through recruitment and networking events, but as Secretary I had the additional roles of crafting a weekly newsletter to keep our members interested and design posters and short films to attract new interests.
Roles Included:
- Created sponsorship proposals that increased our yearly budget by $2700, an estimated 35% growth
- Quintupled membership to 138 members over 3 years through developing recruitment strategies
- Engaged over 300 students at each Science Extravaganza 2019 and 2020 and hosted SJSU’s largest student organized event by presenting to 7 local middle schools to encourage thousands of young students to pursue higher education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
- During this time, helped expand the scope of resources by being a co-founder and function as Treasurer to SJSU's new SACNAS Chapter (Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science)
SOLES has been my favorite organization on the SJSU campus and assisting in growing the community has been a great experience!
SOLES at the SHPE National Convention 2019!
A hobby of mine is making short films, I am experienced with Adobe's Creative Cloud Suite of Products and included are two videos we made. The above link is a short documentary of our teams journey attending the SHPE National Convention in Phoenix, AZ and below is a parody of the intro to the 2005 show "The Office" to promote our social events!