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Meeting – Follow the Sun
July 12, 2023 “Follow the Sun” was our theme for July 12 meeting, and it was luminous. Preetha Menon shared a leader profile of Virginia Holsinger, an unsung hero of food science. As a chemist and nutritionist, she improved and saved lives by developing milk substitute and powdered drink mix to relieve lactose intolerance and…
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Meeting – Ignite the Light
July 5, 2023 🎆 “Ignite the Light,” in honor of the 4th of July was the theme of our July 5 meeting. 🎇 In her speech,🌻 “Change is Beautiful”, Anushree Ramanath shared her journey from her hometown to the US to pursue her doctoral degree and her career as a researcher. Her story was full…
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Leader Profile – Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin, British Chemist and X-Ray Crystallographer, known for role in discovering the structure of DNA Franklin is one of the many women in science (and history, in general) who is known more by the names of the men around her rather than for her own accomplishments (which were many!) One of her colleagues shared…
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Meeting – Follow Your Excitement
June 14, 2023 Our meeting began with Maurya providing an interesting leader profile of Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, who provides inspiration to all in her company in the way she models servant leadership. We also conducted our annual Toastmaster elections where we elected Sarah Tang (VP Education), Helen Josephine (VP Public Relations) Ramya Radhakrishnan…
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Meeting – Adventure Time
June 7, 2023 Our new club emprise: a New Member Induction led by our VPM, Ramya. We officially welcomed Ruhina, Jun, and Gail as club members. Abhijeet led a workshop, “How to Craft a Speech” and told us to start in Media Res, bare our souls, and dig deep! Table Topics Master Liz asked two of our…
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Leader Profile -Mária Telkes, the Sun Queen
Dr. Mária Telkes was one of the first pioneers of solar energy. She believed the power of the sun could change human lives, and she was right! Dr. Telkes was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1900 and studied physical chemistry at the University of Budapest. She graduated with a B.A. in 1920 and received her…
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Meeting – Freedom
May 24, 2023 At our second hybrid meeting, Freedom was the theme. Ramya presented the Leader Profile on Maria Telkes, the Sun Queen. Priya taught from experience as a club mentor and sponsor how to set up a successful corporate Toastmaster club. Ruhina gave us a road map to help manage change in our lives. Table…
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(Hybrid!) Meeting – I Hope You Dance
May 17, 2023 We hosted our first hybrid meeting! Abhijeet invited members local to Santa Clara to bring their laptops to his workplace, Nvidia. From there we used our personal laptops to sign into our individual Zoom accounts, and designated one laptop at the front of the room for presenting. Our Toastmaster Liz welcomed both our…
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A women-led public speaking club
