We are excited to announced that in September 2019 the CGS will be launching 7 student chapters as a pilot test! In February we put out a call for applications and we were thrilled to receive interest from universities across the country. With the amount of excitement and high-quality applications, we decided to work with all the universities to pilot this initiative. The pilot test will run from September 2019 to May 2020, after which the Student Chapters and CGS Executive Committee will convene to discuss the success of the initiative and next steps.
The universities include (from west to east):
The Student Chapters Executive Committees are composed of undergraduate and graduate students, some who are new to the CGS and others who have been involved in the CGS for many years. They already have great ideas from speaker series, virtual meetings, MSE wall competitions, to events that engage high school students.
Each Student Chapter had to seek a vote of support from their Local Section as part of the application and the CGS Sections did not disappoint. All sections welcomed this idea through writing letters of support.