Our Crowdfunding Groups
Here some updates for my project:
1. We scouted a new student, Margarita Herrera. Margarita is Salvadorian-american and currently is majoring in Aerospace Engineering. She is part of the women in aerospace engineering leadership society. Margarita is interested in work in our lab and learn about properties of materials and its connection with aerospace engineering.
2. Currently, I'm working with other excellent student, Alice Yau from Houston, who is majoring in electrical engineering. Alice has been working in our group for a while, she worked with Dr Taneja and was previously trained by her on everything regarding thin films characterization and devices
3. So far we raised $485 dollars, I'm happy with all the donations!. However, we still need to work. I kindly ask you to share my project with your friends. Here is the link: https://hornraiser.utexas.edu/project/11725. All the donations are tax-deductible.
You have until the end of the month to support us with your donations.
Furthermore, you can find us on Facebook as @semiconductorsforall....
Hello all,
On Monday our project was launched, so far we just have 4 donors, thanks to all of them because they are opening a door to help students to be persuaded to apply to graduate school. We raised $275 dollars.
However, we still need your help to continue with this project. Our goal are at least $8000 dollars. Please help me to share this project. I recall the time in which each of you got helped by a person that believed in YOU. This person probably used his/ her funding to support your development as scientist or business woman/ man. Many students from minority groups are not easily persuade to do research on materials science and engineering because they believe in hard work (buy a home, getting a car, etc.,) instead of education which rewards them few years later. Nevertheless, education is hard work, too. If we keep persuading minority students, we raise the levels of educations in USA; education defeats poverty, ignorance, and even social problems such as racism or intolerance towards certain groups. Materials science research is education, too. We support and enhance the analytical skills for our students, we teach them to ask questions, to exploit the curiosity and reach an objective. Picture a world in your mind in which we are as a society more analytical, critical, creators, team workers, creators of ideas, innovators, etc. That would be awesome! we will have thousands of ideas becoming projects everyday!
If you look carefully, being a scientist develops social skills because our students speak about science with people with different backgrounds : doctors, accountants, athletes, etc,. We want science to reach every home and family in USA. Science help us to be more skeptical about information and lead us to find the right answers.
You were helped by somebody at least once... don't you want to push a student to his/her highest potential?
Thanks,
Martha Serna
Today, we presented topics about Materials science and engineering, 2D materials research, and minorities in semiconductor research at the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) chapter at UT- Austin. We are on our way to recruit students for our research.
Hello all,
We have diffirent giving levels you can contribute to any area of our research for our students. Help us to buy materials and to get funds to go to the conference, donate to support student meals during their travels.
We published our different giving levels in our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/semiconductorsforall/
$20 – Materials for Research A donation of $20 dollars can help us to buy materials for our project of synthesis of semiconductors For that we need to buy WO3 powders Te Powders KMoSO4 poweders Silicon oxide wafers
$50 – Meals at the Conference This gift will pay for meals and transportation for a day at a conference!
$78 – Coats and Goggles Your donation will allow us to acquire new coats and googles for our future scientists! This will help the students to be protected and ready to work. At our lab working with my chemical vapor deposition (CVD) reactor for synthesis of new semiconductors can be dangerous so we need the right equipment.
$185 – Travel Your donation will help cover the costs of travel for one student to a conference!
$300 – Conference Registration Every conference requires a registration for a student that costs around $300 dollars. Your donation will allow one student to participate and present our research.
$500 – Send a Student to a Conference Your gift will sponsor all of 1 student’s expenses to attend a conference!
$1,000 – Research for an Entire Semester Your gift will pay 1 student to conduct this research for an entire semester!
Hello all,
Every donation to our campaign is a tax-deductible donation to the University of Texas at Austin. You will receive a tax receipt for your donation from the university.
Thanks!!!
Martha
We are lauching our facebook webpage. Please join to our project and make the different by helping students to persuade Materials Science and Electrical Engineering PhD programs at UT Austin.
A donation of $20 dollars can help us to buy materials for our project of synthesis of semiconductors For that we need to buy WO3 powders Te Powders KMoSO4 powders Silicon oxide wafers.
Your donation will allow us to acquire new coats and googles for our future scientists! This will help the students to be protected and ready to work. At our lab working with my chemical vapor deposition (CVD) reactor for synthesis of new semiconductors can be dangerous so we need the right equipment.
Your donation will help cover the costs of travel for one student to a conference!
This gift will pay for all meals and transportation to the conference!
Every conference requires a registration for a student that costs around $315 dollars. Your donation will allow one student to participate and present our research.
Your gift will sponsor all of 1 student’s expenses to attend a conference!
Your gift will pay 1 student to conduct this research for an entire semester!
