The results of the latest Recruitment & Retention Benchmarking Report are now available. This survey solicited responses from all chapters of YGN and the results contain lots of information about the salaries and benefits offered to young professionals in the nuclear industry.
Thanks to our own Matt Cameron, Sarah Chisholm, and Adam Strange for helping make it happen! You can check out the survey results online. Last year’s results are also available.
Our chapter logged around 950 hours of Professional Development and Public Information activities in 2007. We helped contribute along with over 40 other chapters to the 33,529 hours reported by our overall NA-YGN organization. Compare this to only 12,000 hours in 2006. Our organization has done a great job growing more active.
Thanks to everyone who contributed!
It has been a busy past couple of weeks for YGN PI members. Janelle Penisten and Sarah Chisholm wrote Letters to the Editor on a recent opinion article in the Charlotte Observer by Rep. Harrison. Janelle also wrote a Letter to the Editor to the Aspen Daily News. Click the link below to read these responses.
The latest issue of NA-YGN’s GoNuke! newsletter features a front page article covering the Nuclear Industry Career fair at the University of SC organized by our chapter’s own Zach Ashcraft. Read it in the April 2007 issue of GoNuke!
Janelle Penisten submitted a Letter to the Editor to the Rock Hill Herald. This was in response to the article “Group raises nuclear waste worries” which criticized and questioned the safety of transporting spent nuclear fuel. Click link below to view Janelle’s response.
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Dave Orr, Ryan Boyle, and Sarah Chisholm presented to three classes of 2nd graders in Covenant Day School’s Super Science Day. YGN hosted two short experiments geared towards topics that the students were currently learning about in their classes. The first experiment “How can you measure something you cannot see” used Geiger counters to measure the radioactivity of household materials. The second demonstration allowed the students to observe the sublimation of dry ice.
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Read the second issue of the quarterly Carolina Chapter Newsletter. The Newsletter recaps our recent public outreach efforts and our Four-Site meeting. Additionally, it covers many of the great upcoming opportunities available to our members.
UPDATE: Carolina YGN’s Excellence in Energy Awards were featured in the School Notes section of the Charlotte Observer.
4 students earn energy awards
The Carolina chapter of the North American Young Generation in Nuclear (NA-YGN) presented four Excellence in Energy Awards at the 2007 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Regional Science Fair, held Feb. 24. The awards are given to students whose projects exemplify energy efficiency, electricity generation and technology, or nuclear science and technology. Winners are: Duncan Anderson of Statesville Road Elementary School for his project, “Pencil Resistors,” in the Elementary Division; Alex Hardy of South Lake Christian Academy for “Which Brand of Batteries Last the Longest?” in the Junior Division; and Bobby Lee of Merlin Middle School and David McKee of Stillwater Academy for “Building a Heat Engine: Converting Thermal Energy into Kinetic Energy” in the Junior Division.
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The March 2nd “Working in the Nuclear Industry Colloquium” was a big step in the right direction for NA-YGN. It was one of the 1st events at the university level that included so many different organizations. The event brought together NA-YGN members from the Midlands Chapter and the Carolinas Chapter as well as ANS, NEI, and the student chapter of ASCE. Members represented a broad range of the nuclear industry, from utilities such as SCE&G & Duke Energy to government agencies such as SRS and Washington Group to vendors such as Westinghouse.
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The next four-site meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, March 8 from 8:30 to 3:30. The agenda is packed full of Professional Development opportunities. We will have an update on the company’s goals for the next ten years, a panel discussion by managers and technical specialists on how they moved through their careers, information on the Personal Development Plan, and a team building activity. Please accept the meeting invitation sent out earlier if you plan on attending so that we can plan for enough food. As always, ask your supervisor for permission to attend.
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