Save the Date for these upcoming Out In Science and Joint STEM Club Events
Events for the 2024-2025 academic year
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In-person meetings are 6:30 pm in Carver 265 this quarter.
- 09/28 – informal virtual meetup: events brainstorming
- 10/01 – Fall Kickoff: First full meeting of the quarter in-person: Button making and events planning
- 10/08 – Prehistoric Planet – Moar Dinosaurs! Screening hosted by Bryce. In-person and virtual event
- 10/15 – Pumpkin decorating collab event with SACNAS
- 10/22 – Ace Week celebration: (cup)cake decorating with Cake Wizard Makayla
- 10/29 – A spooooky event: Rocky Horror Picture Show screening collab event with Western Scream Queens
- 11/05 – Quiet self-care crafts night (note: this is intended to be a safe space to de-stress and get away from the news briefly, and we will not be talking about the election)
- 11/12 – Intersectional Discussion Night – BIPOC and Queer intersections, hosted by Out In Science WWU, the WWU Chapter of SACNAS, and new club OSOCE
- 11/19 – Fidget/Stim crafts nigh with chew-safe silicone beads
- 11/26 – Potluck!
- 12/03 – Last meeting of the quarter: Prep week de-stress: coloring, crafts, and tea
Planning ahead: visiting presentation for Winter quarter?
In-person meetings are CV 265 this quarter.
If you have ideas for meeting events or collaborative club activities, we’d love to host it!
- 01/07 – Informal remote meeting on Zoom & events planning – Alumni encouraged to stop by!
- 01/14 – First IRL Meeting kickoff: Crafty night. Alphabet beads, pleather cord, ‘n’ chain maille for starters…
- 01/21 – Its “Bryce Day!” (Bryce’s birthday) – suggested attire includes dressing in green, purple, and/or tie-dye. Cupcakes for sure, and card games maybe?
- 01/28 – Prehistoric Planet Screening. Every quarter deserves at least one serving of Dinosaurs narrated by The Sir David Attenborough.
- 02/04 – “Shiny!” Reflective/safety cord, string, and decals, fidgety crafts + neurodivergence in STEM
- 02/11 – pre-Valentine’s meeting. Theme: “Wear your heart on your sleeve” / Patches and clothing mod/repair
- 02/18 – Aromantic Spectrum awareness week
- 02/25 – ‘And’, not ‘Or’: arts and sciences intersections and coexistences discussion night – including recent Out In Science Alumni. Will be in-person and virtual hybrid event!
- 03/04 – TBD
- March is Bisexual Health Awareness Month!
- 03/11 – Prep Week de-stress tea, hot chocolate, and coloring
- Save the Date! WWU QueerCon is the last Saturday in April!
- 04/01 – Informal remote meeting on Zoom & events planning
- 04/08 – First IRL Meeting of the Quarter
- 04/15 – TBD
- 04/22 – TBD
- QueerCon is Saturday!
- 04/29 – TBD
- 05/06 – TBD
- 05/13 – TBD
- 05/20 – TBD
- 05/27 – TBD
- 06/03 – Prep Week de-stress: coloring, crafts, and tea.
Archive
AY 2023-2024
In-person meetings are in Carver 265 this quarter.
- 09/26 – informal Discord voice meetup: events brainstorming
- 10/03 – First full meeting of the quarter in-person: Button making and events planning
- 10/10 – Crafts night (including Pride Chain Maille) – BYO project or start one here!
- 10/17 – Pumpkin decorating! collab with SACNAS and Scream Queens
- 10/24 – Ace week event – theme: “Cake”! Cupcake decorating and Great British Bake-off screening collab event with A-spec Club
- 10/31 – Halloween! Rocky Horror Picture Show screening collab event with Scream Queens
- 11/07 – Craft Night collab event with QueerCon
- 11/14 – Prehistoric Planet – Dinosaurs! Screening hosted by Bryce
- 11/21 – Potluck!
- 11/28 – Discussion day – Winter visiting speaker planning and QueerCon ideas
- 12/05 – Prep week coloring and crafts
Planning ahead: visiting presentation for Winter quarter?
In-person meetings are 6:30 pm Tuesdays in Carver 265 this quarter.
- 01/09 – Informal remote meeting on Zoom & events planning
- 01/16 – First IRL Meeting; events planning and buttonmaker
- 01/23 – Prehistoric Planet hosted by Bryce
- 01/30 – Regular meeting – more Prehistoric Planet and/or events planning
- 02/06 – Silicone bead stim/chew crafts collab with Disability & Neurodivergence Club! Please use our RSVP link if you’d like to attend: https://forms.gle/5TVBuzeYixZuQ8SFA
- 02/13 – sweet night – pre-Valentine’s meeting. With cake handmade by Cake Wizard Makayla
- 02/20 – savory night – Garlic bread and zucchinis?! It’s our Aromantic awareness week meeting!
- 02/27 – GAYme night – BYO board games, handhelds, and video games – use the big projector screen if you want!
- 03/05 – Meet the Dean of CSE – Q&A and Discussion with Dr. Janelle Leger
- Note: March is Bisexual Health Awareness Month!
- 03/12 – Prep Week de-stress tea, hot chocolate, and coloring
- Save the Date! WWU QueerCon is Saturday, April 27, 2024
- 04/09 – Dinosaurs night: More Prehistoric Planet, hosted by Bryce
- 04/16 – Buttonmaking and snacks
- 04/23 – “Sounds Goose!” Untitled Goose Game playing on the big screen, hosted by Shane
- 04/30 – “It’s all coming up Goose House” Untitled Goose Game adventures, Part 2
- 05/07 – “Meet the Dean!” (Rescheduled from Winter) Collab with PhIS (Physicists for Inclusion in STEM) and DIG (Diversity in Geology Club)
- 05/14 – Visiting alumni Q&A and pizza party! – collab event with PhIS
- 05/21 – Queer Planetarium Show with Erin – virtual and in-person hybrid event
- 05/28 – Silicone bead stim/chew crafts night returns!
- 06/04 – Prep Week de-stress: coloring, crafts, and tea.
AY 2022-2023
- 09/27 – IRL: Events Planning, BYO crafts, pronoun pins and buttonmaking 6:30 pm in CV 265
- 10/04 – IRL: More Events planning, plus BYO needlecrafts, embroidery, and clothing mending, 6:30 pm in CV 265
- 10/11 – Study Hall
- 10/18 – Pumpkin decorating! a collab event with SACNAS and Western Aces & Aros! 6:30 pm in CV 265
- 10/25 – Meet the New Dean! Planning meeting – Remote/Hybrid
- 11/01 – Meet the New Dean! 6:30 pm on Tuesday Nov 01
Hybrid in-person CV 265 &remote on Zoom! (see email for zoom link)
- 11/08 – Visit from JoeHahn from LGBTQ+Western
- 11/15 – Queer Comedy Screening collab event
- 11/22 – No meeting
- 11/29 – IRL: Prep week coloring & de-stress
- Meeting days: Tuesdays at 6:30 pm in CV 265
- 01/10 – Events planning discussion
- 01/17 – Buttonmaking: pronouns and science art pins
- 01/24 – Study hall and snacks
- 01/31 – Mid-quarter refresh: Coloring, Hot chocolate, and Tea
- 02/07 – Friendship Bracelets & Chain Maille
- 02/14 – Rocky Horror Picture Show screening with WWU Scream Queens Queer Horror Club – this is a safer, no-hazing , no-shaming screening event.
- 02/21 – Board Game Night + Seed Swap with Queer Eco Justice Club
- 02/28 – Discussion: Improving LGBTQ+ inclusion in science
- 03/07 – Prep week de-stress: coloring, crafts, & tea
- Meeting days: Tuesdays at 6:30 pm in CV 265
- 3/38 – Informal Zoom meeting and events planning
- 4/4 – First IRL meeting of the quarter & events planning
- 4/11 – IRL, snacks and crafts hangout
- 4/18 – IRL Documentary night with Sophie Jane! P.S. it’s Earth Week!
- 4/18 – SPECIAL COLLAB EVENT 4-5 pm: Sky Cubacub virtual presentation and simulcast at Trans Tea in VU 462
- 4/25 – SPECIAL EVENT 5-7 pm: LGBTQ+ Faculty & Staff & Students mixer with LGBTQ+ Western
- Saturday, 04/29 – SPECIAL EVENT 12-8 pm: WWU QueerCon!
- Find us on the top floor of AW building tabling near PhIS (Physicists for Inclusion in STEM)
- 5/2 – Collab event – Out In The Wild, WWU-based Hike / Naturewalk (5:30 pm Outback food forest and Sehome arb) and Picnic in the Outdoor covered area (6:30 pm)
- 5/9 – Discussion theme: Dating, relationships, and non-relationships
- 5/23 – Presentation day! (present about anything? But queer and sciency presentations and memes encouraged!) emcee’d by Maddie! Contact Maddie with questions
- 05/21 – SPECIAL EVENT 4:30 pm in the green between Carver and SMATE: Pride Tie Dye!
- 5/23 – Join Queer Eco Justice & LGBTQ+ Western in lieu of regular OiS meeting at the Outback Farm for Outback foraging and a cottagecore tea party (event goes 6 – 8pm).
- 5/30 – IRL – prep week de-stress: coloring, crafts, and tea
- 06/25 – 4:30 pm in the green between Carver and SMATE: Pride Tie-Dye!
- Make some pride apparel before the July pride festival. RSVP and reserve your pride color dyes on Discord with GIM
- 07/09 – Out in Science & QueerCon are tabling together at Pride IN Bellingham! Find us at the Festival from 12 – 4pm at booth #6
- 08/15 6:30 pm in the area between AW and the Comm Lawn – Pride Tie Dye part 2
AY 2021-2022
- 09/09 – IRL: Pronoun pins and buttonmaking
- 10/06 – REMOTE: Skribblio games night
- 10/13 – IRL & Hybrid: Chavela screening
- 10/20 – REMOTE: Over the Garden Wall (first half) streaming on Discord
- 10/27 – IRL: Pumpkin decorating & Aces fall crafts joint event night
- 11/03 – REMOTE: Over the Garden Wall (second half) streaming, continued on Discord
- 11/10 – IRL: Buttonmaking & Origami with James
- 11/17 – REMOTE: Queer Planetarium Show with Erin
- 12/01 – IRL: Prep week coloring & chain maille
- 01/19 – Virtual: Drawing Games night
- 01/26 – Virtual: LGBTQ+ Western & Litav Langley visits OiS
- 02/02 – IRL & remote: Crafts & Chain Maille
- 02/16 – IRL & remote: Clothes Mending
- 02/23 – Virtual: Zooniverse
- 03/02 – Wildlife video streaming & crafts
- 03/09 – Prep Week de-stress
- 03/30 – Virtual (events planning)
- 04/06 – Virtual (events planning, drawing games/discussion)
- 04/13 – IRL (Crafts)
- 04/20 – Virtual
- 04/27 – IRL (QueerCon preparations & pronoun buttons for tabling)
- 05/04 – Virtual (May the 4th be with you)
- 05/11 – IRL (study hall, nature / animal cam streams)
- 05/18 – Queer Faculty, students, staff, and alumni in STEM virtual mixer
- 05/25 – IRL (WWU Pride preparations?)
- 06/28 – SPECIAL EVENT: Tie Dye!
- 06/01 – Prep Week de-stress & Tie Dye Shirt return!
- 06/01 – 4-6pm, WWU Pride in Comm Lawn or MAC Gym
- 07/12 – Summer Pride Tie Dye workshop #1: Pride flags, bags, & classic swirls
- 07/27 – Out In Science tabling for Downtown Bellingham Pride!
- 08/17 – Summer Tie Dye workshop #2: Geometric patterns & nature colors!
AY 2020-2021
October 13 –Rescheduled for October 20, due to weather! “Queer Star Stories” virtual planetarium show for Ada Lovelace Day- A celebration of Women, nonbinary, and trans folks in STEM
- Tuesday, October 13 from 6:00 – 6:40 pm
- Zoom: https://wwu-edu.zoom.us/j/93352237302?pwd=Uk1wejNaLzRCaW1veFE3L1d4UG1kdz09
- FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/692263461383296
- October 14 – Game night
- 7:00 pm
- October 17 – WWU QueerCon 2020: Registration is FREE!
- Out In Science table #27
- Watch our panel at 3:00: But I’m Not a Woman in Science™! Being left out of the underrepresented gender conversation in STEM [zoom link]
- https://wp.wwu.edu/wwuqueercon/2020-panel-schedule/
- October 21 – International Pronouns Day & Asexual Awareness week
- 7:00 pm
- October 28 – Fire and Flood film screening
- 104 minutes, Bilingual captions, queer eco jusitice
- November 12 & 17th – Mix It Up! A two day film festival
- An All STEM Clubs joint event celebrating diversity and inclusion in the sciences
- Film screening: Can We Talk
- Student film festival with prizes!
- November 11: Veteran’s Day holiday (no meeting)
- December 02 – Prep Week de-stress meeting, virtual tea
- 7:00 pm
- Jan 07 – Regular meeting + scholarship writing and coworking support
- Jan 14 – Visit from the Scholarship Office
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- Bring questions!
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- Jan 28 – Fire and Flood Screening
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- Collab event with Queer Eco Justice Club
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- Feb 04 -Among Us! Game night
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- Hosted by James
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- Feb 11 – Queer Star Stories planetarium showing
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- Collab event with WWU Aces and Aros
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- Feb 18 – Crafts and friendship bracelets
- Feb 25 – Meet the Dean!
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- Collab event with PhIS and SACNAS
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- March 04 – 5 – 7pm Research Meet & Greet
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- Collab event with SACNAS
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- March 11 – Picture a Scientist screening
All meetings are currently being held virtually on Zoom and Discord.
- April 7 – Spring Events Planning meeting
- April 14 – Queer Con prep & Town Hall planning meeting
- April 15, 3:00 pm – meet Gina!
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- Come hang out with out CSE Inclusion and Outreach Specialist at Dr. Barber DeGraaff’s Communty Office Hours time!
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- April 24, 11am – 5pm – WWU QueerCon 2021: Registration is FREE!
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- Out In Science table in the Exhibitor hall
- Watch our panel at 1:00: But I’m Not a Woman in Science™! Being left out of the underrepresented gender conversation in STEM
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- April 28 – Game night hosted by James
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- Among us and/or Uno?
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- May 05 – Town Hall with Brad Johnson, dean of CSE
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- Joint event with PhIS
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- May 17 – Graduate student town hall with Brad Johnson and David Patrick, deans of CSE and the Graduate School
- May 12 – Drawing Games night
- May 19 – Craft night: Virtually work on friendship bracelets and any WIP you have
- May 26 – “What’s your sign?” Planetarium event with Erin: Planets and birthday myths
- June 02 – Prep week de-stress
AY 2019-2020
- October 08 – Ada Lovelace Day
- A celebration of Womxn in STEM
- Tuesday, October 08 from 11:30 – 1pm
- October 15 – Pronoun Button Party
- October 16 – International Pronouns Day
- November 14 – Mix It Up!
- An All STEM Clubs joint event celebrating diversity and inclusion in the sciences
- Thursday, November 14 from 5 – 7:30pm
- November 26 – Potluck
- Regular meeting time
- Friends and STEM clubs welcome
- December 03 – Prep Week Tea, Crafts, and Coloring
- Jan 02 – First meeting of the quarter and events planning
- Jan 22 – Buttons and Crafts /w WWU Queer Con +Langley Visit!
- Jan 29 – Pride Chain Maille Jewelry workshop
- Feb 05 – Board Games Night
- Feb 07 (Friday) – QRC’s Drag Show
- Feb 12 – Queer Planetarium Show!
- Meet in the Planetarium (3rd floor of HH) at 6:00 pm
- Want to travel together? We’ll be departing CV 265 at 5:45 pm.
- Feb 19 – Queering Research
- 4 – 5 pm: BI 234: “How the Teaching of Biology Influences SEx/Gender Beliefs in Undergraduates”
- 5 – 6 pm: free pizza and discussion with speaker after the seminar
- 6 pm: regular meeting in CV 265 (study hall, crafts)
- Feb 26 – Goose Game & Video Game Night
- Mar 4 (5:30 pm): joint potluck, location TBD
- Mar 11: prep week coffee/tea/crafts
April 25 (Saturday, 10-5): WWU Queer Con!Rescheduled for Fall 2020!
- July (2nd Sunday of July) – Bellingham Pride
page last updated: Jan 2025