Important EPICS Week 9 Announcements
Cross-Cultural Dimensions Workshop
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March 4
This workshop will focus on how to efficiently work within cross cultural teams. They will be going over many tools to help navigating cross-cultural differences such as Hofstede’s
dimensions and how to avoid such conflicts. These skills, currently, are considered highly valuable in industry and research environment and it would be a great opportunity to improve the team working skills. Please email at
ispc@purdue.edu if you have any questions.
MATCHCOUNTS –
March 9
This is a fun mathematics competition for 6/7/8 graders. Purdue is hosting the State competition and we expect about 220 students from all over Indiana. The majority of volunteers will be helping
with the scoring effort. Lunch is provided! Volunteer at https://goo.gl/forms/W1PX1zITfxnT42GH3. Contact
hughe162@purdue.edu for details.
International Development (I2D) Exposition –
March 29
This event highlights Purdue's incredible engineering innovations focused on addressing the Sustainable Development Goals. As part of this event, students from across the College
of Engineering have the opportunity to participate in the Exposition Poster Session, where they can share their research and connect with development professionals from the government, academia, and non-profit space. We would like to encourage as many student
teams to participate as possible and would greatly appreciate if you could please share the attached information with your students. See flyer for details.
Inspire to Innovate 2019 –
April 27
Interested in showcasing your project to kids in the community? The DKC EPICs team is co-hosting the 3rd annual Inspire to Innovate in partnership with The Anvil
and Deaf Kids Code. This is a free interactive event that is targeted to get kids including those with disabilities interested in STEM. We are looking to have EPICs teams that would like to showcase their project at an interactive booth for the event on Sunday
April 7th from 2-5pm at The Anvil. If your team is interested, please contact bzammit@purdue.edu for
more information.
Follow Us:
Andrew Pierce
EPICS Academic Administrator
Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering – Room 1209
701 West Stadium Avenue
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045
Email: pierce1@purdue.edu
Phone: (765) 494-3559