Chocolatespoon: Emily’s Musings

I briefly came out of my Tech volunteering retirement to attend tonight’s annual volunteer recognition dinner because it is traditional for the previous year’s winner to award the Inspirational Volunteer of the Year award. It was wonderful to see everyone and, as always, it was a really nice event — better than usual actually [...]

I was all excited by the headline on this Forbes article: ‘Breathtaking’: Gates Gives $15M To Tech Museum, until I read the article which is about a donation to the Computer History Museum, which is cool too of course.
I just thought it was a bit ironic because the article was all like NY has a [...]

Veteran science museum director to lead The Tech
Formal Search for Permanent Chief Begins
By Karl Schoenberger
Mercury News
“San Jose’s Tech Museum of Innovation announced Friday it has appointed Sheila Grinell, a veteran science museum director, to lead the institution until a new chief executive is recruited.”

I’m behind in my gossip, clearly, but just saw this: From the Tech to job in Hawaii: EX-CHIEF GILES WILL TAKE REINS OF ASTRONOMY EDUCATION CENTER
Giles, 61, who retired in March as the president and CEO of the Tech, will become the director of the Mauna Kea Astronomy Education Center in Hilo, Hawaii, on Sept. [...]

I had the opportunity to attend tonight’s Commonwealth Club dinner honoring Peter Giles and SJ Mercury News columnist Leigh Weimers. It was a really nice event and I sat at a table with people from Adobe and The Tech which was a lot of fun. Its so inspiring to hear about the decades [...]

Tonight was our annual Volunteer Reconition Dinner at The Tech. It is always a really nice event, but was particularly special for me this year since I just finished my 2 year term as VAB Chair (and, as you know, I’m taking a leave from volunteering there for a while.) We gave out [...]

Today was my very last volunteer advisory board meeting at The Tech. After a year as vice-chair (and rep to the board of directors) and two years now as chair, my term has come to the end. It was a pretty good meeting and a nice send-off with sappy sentiments and lovely parting [...]

This morning was Peter’s big retirement breakfast at The Tech. Each department (plus the volunteers) paraded in (some in costumes) and presented him with parting gifts. The volunteers gave him one of those famous mango vests (now also retired) with everyone’s signatures. I unfortunately had to duck out before the end for [...]

This morning was Peter’s big retirement breakfast at The Tech. Each department (plus the volunteers) paraded in (some in costumes) and presented him with parting gifts. The volunteers gave him one of those famous mango vests (now also retired) with everyone’s signatures. I unfortunately had to duck out before the end for [...]

After our early morning library campaign committee meeting, I raced downtown and made it with about 30 seconds to spare for the special volunteer showing of the new IMAX film, Pulse, a Stomp Odyssey. I was going to wait and see it later, but Van organized a cookies & coffee social for the volunteers [...]