Hello members of the Southeast Chapter. First off, I want to say a big thank you to everyone who supported our Chattanooga meeting. We had a fantastic meeting exploring recycled silicones and networking while playing Top Golf. I would like to give an additional thank you to our sponsors CHT USA and Colonial Chemical for making the event possible. I would also like to give a shout out Tami Thomas and Jessica Wright for their hard work in planning the event. The board members and I are very excited and appreciative of the support we are receiving from both members and sponsors. Without their support we wouldn’t be able to have successful meetings.
As I took office last year, Erica (Bennett, former chair) started an initiative to reach more students in our area. The initiative was started by introducing new scholarship opportunities for students and will continue with outreach to colleges and university in our area. It is our goal to host meetings on college campuses and invite students to attend our meetings. In that spirit, we have received a lot of interest from students looking for internships. The board is currently exploring ways to connect companies looking for interns with students looking to intern in the southeast. If you are interested in helping, please reach out to a board member. The overall goal of this initiative is to support our future members and keep them in the southeast.
Lastly, I would like to mention our upcoming meetings. Our next meeting is in Nashville and is described in this newsletter, so I will skip that one. Our Suppliers Social will be held in August of this year in Atlanta. We are actively looking for sponsors for that event and details will be released shortly. I apologize for the late notice on these meetings, I have been coordinating with the other chapters in Area IV to have a joint meeting. It was my hope to have this joint meeting as a Southeast Suppliers Day / Social, but unfortunately, we were unable to work out a date with the surrounding chapters. I still have hopes of a joint meeting later in the year where we can network with Mid-Atlantic, Florida, and Carolina chapters…Fingers crossed.
Thank you again for all your support of our chapter and I look forward to another successful meeting in Nashville.
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