Season’s Greetings from SHPE Silicon Valley

We thank you for your continued support and making 2010 one of the best year’s of SHPE Silicon Valley’s history. With special thanks to those individuals, corporate & community partners, and sponsors who have strongly supported our mission and vision in 2010.

• March 11 – Professional Development and Networking Mixer hosted by Microsoft with keynote by Claudia Galvan, Principal Lead Program Manager at Microsoft (Photos)
• August 13 – SHPE Silicon Valley invited by the Hispanic IT Executive Council (HITEC) to ring the opening bell at NASDAQ (Photos & Video)
• August 18 – 1st Annual SHPE Silicon Valley Appreciation Banquet sponsored by Microsoft (Photos)
• November 4 – 1st Annual Hispanic Corporate Executive Panel Event sponsored by Symantec with top Latino and Latina executives from the Silicon Valley (Photos & Video)
• November 9 – 1st Annual HITEC/SHPE Hispanic Executive Networking Event IBM (Photos)
• December 2 – 2nd Annual Joint Holiday Diversity Networking Mixer sponsored by Google (Photos)

Most importantly, we continued our mission to promote engineering, science, and technology to K-12 students to increase the pipeline of future Latino engineers with two Noche de Ciencias events. Without your help in volunteering, we couldn’t have had Telemundo feature our Noche de Ciencias on TV.

• April 1 – Noche de Ciencias sponsored by PG&E at J.W. Fair Middle School (Photos)
• October 21 – Noche de Ciencias sponsored by IBM at Davis Intermediate School (Photos & Video)

• March 4-6, 2011 – SHPE Regional Leadership Development Conference at Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
• March 2011 – Noche de Ciencias (Spring Event)
• April 2011 – MESA Day at SJSU
• October 2011 – Noche de Ciencias (Fall Event)
• November 2011 – HITEC-SHPE Hispanic Executive Gala Reception at the HITEC Q4 Executive Summit sponsored by Oracle (Redwood City, CA)
• December 2011 – 3rd Annual Joint Holiday Diversity Networking Mixer sponsored by Google (Mountain View, CA)
• And much more planned!

Lastly, our success as an organization is not possible without the support of individuals like you, including our members, volunteers, corporate & community partners, and sponsors. Gracias!

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

– From the SHPE Silicon Valley Executive Board (David Silva, Rosalinda Zepeda, Peter Sanchez, & Christian Zuniga)

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