The GCoE National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) is rebranding who they are and what they represent during the 2016-2017 academic school year. This year’s campaign is titled “The Re-Brand Year” and NSBE is specifically focusing on membership retention, professional development, academic excellence and strengthening the black engineering community.
On November 11-13, the OU NSBE chapter traveled to Houston, TX for the Fall Regional Conference (FRC). Their trip was extremely successful and we’d like to take a moment to share details of their experience with you.
To begin, the OU NSBE chapter exists within Region 5out of 6 total regions. Within Region 5, there are 32 chapters and a total of 1083 students attended FRC this year. Forty-three OU students traveled to FRC. The OU NSBE chapter brought the most students to the conference and this is a record number of attendees in GCoE NSBE history. Of the 43 students, 38 students maintained over a 3.0 GPA
During this trip, our chapter increased our participation in daily events offered and demonstrated great professionalism. As a reward for timeliness, professional dress and for being noticeably engaged in comparison to other chapters, the OU chapter was given exclusive access to the career fair ahead of 1000+ other students. We had several students receive interviews.
Not only did we participate as a chapter in larger events, we also had 3 students compete in the Elevator Pitch Competition, 4 students in the NSBE Debaters Competition, 7 students in the Academic Bowl, and 6 students in the Talent Show. Witnessing “The Re-Brand Year” take effect beyond OU’s campus was amazing and it was even more amazing to watch our chapter compete well against other universities.
Results of the trip:
- Most Outstanding Chapter of the Oklahoma Zone
- Most Outstanding Chapter President
- Ciore Taylor – ME Senior
- The Esprit de Corps Award
- Jayde Williams – Comp E Sophomore
- Academic Excellence Outreach Award
- Salomon Mbouombouo Rodriquez, ME/PE Senior
- 1st Place, Elevator Pitch Competition
- Michele Tchindge – IE Freshmen
- Runner-up, Elevator Pitch Competition
- Salomon Mbouombouo Rodriquez — ME/PE Senior
- 1st Place, Academic Bowl – will compete at Nationals
- Ashley Medice – ME Junior
- Jared Alex — ME Sophomore
- Whitney Sennet — EE Junior
- Juliana France — IE Junior
- Olivia Smith — Comp E Freshmen
- Aria Lewis– IE Junior
- Ernest Hammond — EE Junior
- Dominique Menser — Environmental Engineering Junior
- 2 students also won free registration to the National Convention
- Barbara Namulwana
- Michele Tchindge – IE Freshmen
For more information on GCoE NSBE, follow their Facebook page.
Written by: Ciore Taylor
