AISES Region IV Conference * March 2-3 * Tahlequah, OK

The 2012 Region IV American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Conference will be held March 2-3, 2012, on the Northeastern State University campus in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. 

The conference will provide an opportunity for AISES college and professional chapters to gather and share information, form partnerships, and to network with each other and with selected presenters and partners.

The conference will include a number of informative sessions and activities for both college and high school students. Among the activities that may be provided are mini career fairs, poster presentations and engineering competitions.

The AISES Mission

The mission of AISES is to increase American Indian and Alaska Native representation in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields — as students, professionals, mentors, and leaders. AISES employs a “full circle of support” model that begins with pre-college programs, progresses into collegiate life, and then into the professional years of members and on into retirement.

AISES works to promote, initiate and provide educational services for American Indian and Alaska Native pre-college, college, and graduate students in STEM. AISES also supports early-, mid-, and executive-level professionals in STEM through professional development, mentoring, networking, community service, and awards programs and initiatives. According to the organization's Web site, AISES is the only professional society established by and for American Indian and Alaska Natives that specifically emphasizes lifelong learning and educational achievement by utilizing cultural aspects with STEM.

Click here to read the full Mission Statement.

For more information about the Oklahoma conference or to register, contact Asa Lewis, NSU Center for Tribal Studies coordinator of student programs, at [email protected] or 918.444.4350.