SAME NoVA Post January Newsletter

January 2024

Our Mission: Build Leaders and Lead Collaboration among Government and Industry to Develop Multi Disciplined Solutions to National Security and Infrastructure Challenges

2025 SAME Strategic Plan

From the President:

Greetings SAME NoVA Post Members!

Happy New Year everyone! May 2024 be prosperous for your companies and your families.

The NoVA Post kicked off our Sponsorship drive in earnest this January. Sponsorship packages include Annual Post Sponsorship and Individual Luncheon Sponsorships, based upon corporate sizes (small, medium/large). Each of these offer opportunities for marketing and branding your company to over 1,050 individuals and 137 firms. More information on sponsorship is available here or contact our sponsorship committee members: Lisa Krowne (lkrowne@terrasiteco.com), Julie Smiley (julie.smiley@expfederal.com), or Danaila Paspalanova: (dpaspalanova@qtsgrp.com)

Our Happy Hour Bowling and Networking Event was a blast this year as our members came out to Joint Base Meyer-Henderson Hall's Bowling Center to show off their bowling skills and create new relationships.

Remember to save the date for the Joint SAME NoVA and DC Posts 16th Annual Small Business Conference on Wednesday, April 24th, 2024, at the Capital Turnaround in Washington, DC.

If you have any ideas, suggestions, comments, improvements, or criticisms, please contact me or any of the Post Board members to discuss.

Thanks for your incredible support of the NoVA Post!

Phil,

Lt Col Philip Hicks, PE (AL,VA), PMP, USAF (Ret)

SAME Northern Virginia Post President

Dewberry Engineers | Senior Project Manager

2024 DC & NoVA Post

Leadership and Mentoring Program (LMP)

On January 17^th, 2024, the 2024 LMP kicked-off with 12 new members of the program at the HKS Architects office in DC with super special guest speaker Sharon Krock, SPWS, F.SAME, SAME National President-Elect and Branch Leader at Schnabel Engineering, where we gave an overview of the LMP and SAME 101. Thank you much to Bree Beal and HKS for hosting us and to Sharon for making a trip down to DC on a very snowy week in the Nation’s Capital.

Next, LMP will meet on 14 February 2024 at the USACE Institute for Water Resources (IWR) with COL (USA Ret.) Joe Manous, PE, PhD, F.SAME for a discussion about Expectations and Outcomes – Is Your Career Going Where You Want?

Sincere thanks to Joe for spending his Valentine’s Day with us….

Happy Hour Bowling Social Recap

Our post held our second annual Bowling Networking Event at Ft Myer Henderson Hall. Despite not being 72 degrees outside in the middle of winter, we still had a great turnout for the event. We had an open bar, good food, and great conversations. Despite some technical issues on the lane computers, our bowlers adapted, and overcame. While most of us were amateurs, just happy not to throw gutter balls, we had some ringers throwing trick shots and bowling turkeys. Regardless of the skill level, everyone enjoyed each other’s company and got to network in a more casual setting. We look forward to hosting this event again next year and seeing it grow even bigger.

PS. Next year we’ll hopefully not accidentally steal any bowling shoes. We won’t mention any names. But you know who you are :)

DC MATHCOUNTS Volunteering

DC MATHCOUNTS is holding their annual competitions in the spring of next year. The chapter level competition will take place on Saturday, February 10, 2024, and the state competition will take place on Saturday, March 9, 2024. As in past years, the competitions will be held at Saint Anselm's Abbey School. So far this year, thirteen schools have signed up, and they are expected to bring more than 120 students to the chapter level competition.

Please contact Ed Chamberlayne for more information!

2024-2025 Scholarship Application

The NoVA Post awards scholarships to graduating high school seniors and current college/ graduate students pursuing a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) field of study or a major related to or supporting the STEM industry.

The SAME NoVA Post college scholarship applications for the 2024-2015 academic year are now open! Deadline is March 1st!!

Application Information

Veteran's Corner

Veteran's co-chairs Chowdhary Gondy, Tim Stufft, and Director-At-Large Mary Anderson have found the following veteran resources and events to pass on to our members. Please consider donating to veterans' organizations. Our veterans need our support all year, but December is an especially good time to consider veterans in our charitable donations.

Our fellow Post member, Lawrence Mullaly, is in the SAME LDP 2023-2024 class and his UPIC (project) is helping Transition Military locally and nationally through SAME and other veteran programs. He is looking to see if anyone in the SAME NOVA post could use his assistance on helping Transitioning military individuals locally. He has worked closely with ACP and Veterati as a mentor over the last couple years. If you know someone struggling in a transition from the military, he has a network of a variety of different veterans who can assist. Please contact him here.

Veterati | America’s Mentoring Network for the Military: Join thousands of Service Members, Veterans, and Military Spouses in setting up free 1-hr mentorship phone calls with successful professionals. Register as a protégé or mentor at https://www.veterati.com/

American Corporate Partners | Founded in 2008, ACP aims to ease the transition from the military to the civilian workforce. ACP is the only nonprofit organization engaged in national corporate career counseling for our returning military. Register as a protégé or mentor at https://www.acp-usa.org/mentoring-program.