Bay Valley Tech Workforce Development
Meeting for the week of January 17, 2022 - January 23, 2022
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: Bay Valley Tech Workforce Development
Speaker: Phil Lan
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Welcome to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Here’s a message from our Club President.
Hi Members and Guests,
Happy New Year and welcome to this week’s meeting of the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
January is Vocational Service Month on the Rotary calendar. Rotary was initially founded as a business networking organization by Paul Harris in Chicago in 1905, and it continues to emphasize the importance of bringing together business and professional leaders for the purposes of exchanging ideas, developing relationships, and improving communities.
Rotary recognizes the importance of all skills and occupations and a vibrant Rotary club reflects the businesses, organizations, and professions in its community, embracing diversity in experiences and perspectives. In this club, we strive to do so with members from a diverse range of professions and backgrounds and also geographies, and by inviting weekly guest speakers from a wide range of organizations to discuss a variety of topics.
The concept of Vocation Service is rooted in the second (of four) object of Rotary:
“High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;”
Ways that Rotarians put these ideals into action include talking about their profession and taking time to learn about other occupations; using their professional skills and expertise to serve a community, such as on service projects; practicing their profession with integrity and inspiring others to behave ethically; helping young people achieve their career goals through mentoring; and guiding and encouraging others through their professional development. I encourage all our members and guests to consider the ways that you can take actions aligned to these ideals to Serve to Change Lives.
Brett Sham
President, Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley
president@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Guests, we are happy to have you join us this week!
As we see it, our flexibility as an online, asynchronous club allows a special type of service to Rotarians around the world: we make it easier for anyone to strive for and maintain 100% attendance. That keeps you engaged with Rotary's events and ideas, and provides a moment of inspiration for devoting your creativity, talents, and resources to good causes.
You are certainly not required to pay anything in order to attend our meetings. However, if you would like to make a small contribution to our service efforts, you are welcome to do so in our secure Happy Dollars section down the page. This could be what you normally pay at your own club's meetings for lunch, for example. Any amount is welcome, but first and foremost, we're happy you've joined us, and hope you will share with others who we are and what we do to help inspire Service Above Self.
And don't forget to fill out our attendance form so you get an email you can pass on to your club's secretary!
The Four Way Test
The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships.
Of the things we think, say or do
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Weekly Funny with Shags.
We believe laughter is an important part of life, and we should all make time to laugh a little. This segment of our meeting is meant to tickle you just enough. These funnies are curated by member Steven "Shags" Shagrin !
Advertising Terms Explained
NEW - Different color from previous design.
ALL NEW - Parts are not interchangeable with previous design.
EXCLUSIVE - Imported product.
UNMATCHED - Almost as good as the competition.
FOOLPROOF OPERATION - No provision for adjustments.
ADVANCED DESIGN - The advertising agency doesn't understand it.
IT'S HERE AT LAST - Rush job. Nobody knew it was coming.
FIELD TESTED - Manufacturer lacks test equipment.
HIGH ACCURACY - Unit on which all parts fit.
FUTURISTIC - No other reason why it looks the way it does.
REDESIGNED - Previous flaws fixed. We hope.
DIRECT SALES ONLY - Factory had a big argument with distributor.
YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT - We finally got one to work.
BREAKTHROUGH - We finally figured out a use for it.
MAINTENANCE FREE - Impossible to fix.
MEETS ALL STANDARDS - Ours, not yours.
SOLID-STATE - Heavy as anything!
HIGH RELIABILITY - We made it work long enough to ship it.
Weekly Inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
This video from Google tells the story of Daniel and how it is often a challenge for anyone to find a path that inspires. Very cool that the setting is just down the highway from Silicon Valley, too!
Through a Rotarian's Lens
Sometimes a photo can capture an amazing moment. In this section Member Keith Marsh shares his incredible photography!
If you'd like to submit a photo for this section please contact Keith.
Canadian Richard Martin is one of my favorite photographers and teachers. He was trained as a graphic artist and has one of the best "eyes" for seeing form and beauty in the most common settings. I have had the privilege to go on two photo trips with him to Cuba and Morroco. Here is an example of his talent.
Learn Something New
This section is curated by members Shags Shagrin and aims to teach our members and guests something new, fun, and useful! If you have any ideas on a fun trick or skill you'd like to share please contact Shags.
Now You've Seen EVERYTHING!!
Probably better drivers than we have in the Bay Area of California!
Service Report
Tell us about service you’ve done recently in your community.
Click here to fill out The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley Service Survey
Our Events & Projects
We hold our meetings online, but we do regular service projects and social events in the Silicon Valley! The section is updated every week with our upcoming events. We welcome guests to all of the events and service projects listed here.
Upcoming Events:
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
District 5170 Events
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
More events coming soon! All events are open to guests, unless otherwise mentioned. Feel free to join us! If you ever have questions, please email inquiries@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Happy Dollars: Do Good by Sharing Something Good
Each week we ask our members to share stories with the club and toss in a few dollars to support our efforts. The primary goal of this section is to provide a fun way of getting to know each fellow members and guests, while giving back to a good cause.
Happy dollars is an opportunity to share something positive that has happened in your life whether it is personal or business. Think of it as your opportunity to brag a little, but also put a little bit into a karma jar. The money donated through happy dollars is put to charitable use, and the message that you leave for happy dollars will be posted in our online meeting the following week for the entire week for folks to see! (Pending that it’s appropriate!)
Here are the happy dollars contributions from last week!
This section is usually updated in the early hours of Saturday, so contributions made over the weekend may not be listed here.
Program: Bay Valley Tech Workforce Development
Speaker: Phil Lan
Every week we bring to you a new program on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education, and how those contribute to service to others.
The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley seeks to explore perspectives on service from across the world. The views of the speakers in our programs are their own, and unless stated otherwise, are not necessarily reflective of the views of our eClub nor Rotary International.
If you have an idea for a cool speaker, please feel free to reach out to them directly or submit THIS FORM so our Program Committee can contact them!
Our speaker this week is Phillip Lan, president of Bay Valley Tech based in Modesto, California. Phillip will discuss the organization's mission to provide tuition-free technology training for underrepresented groups throughout Northern California. Bay Valley Tech's alumni have gone on to a number of strong companies, such as American Medical Response, E&J Gallo, Oportun (Nasdaq: OPRT) and Tyler Technologies (NYSE: TYL).
To maximize community impact, Bay Valley Tech has built partnerships with corporate sponsors as well as local government and educational organizations such as the County Office of Education, City Economic Development Agency, County Workforce Development and local school districts.
As president of Bay Valley Tech, Phillip Lan oversees the organization's fast-growing free code academy and tech hub, which supports entrepreneurs with inexpensive office space, digital marketing services and software talent. Phillip is also a key driver in Bay Valley Tech's efforts to support and sponsor tech community organizations, including Tech Connect, Valley Hackathon, Women Techmakers, Valley AgTech, as well as numerous software developer meetups and K-12 coding programs. Prior to Bay Valley Tech, Phillip led the digital marketing team at E&J Gallo, the world's largest winery, and held marketing, business development and leadership roles at IBM, Robert Half, and Ask.com. He holds a bachelor's degree in managerial economics from the University of California, Davis and an MBA in computer information systems from California State University East Bay.
Members and guests, please welcome Phil Lan!
To learn more about Bay Valley Tech:
https://www.bayvalleytech.com/
Reach out to the team at Bay Valley Tech at info@bayvalleytech.com
Upcoming Program Recording Schedule
All of our guest speakers and programs are recorded live online over Zoom video conference. We welcome members and guests to join us in one of these upcoming recordings. Recordings are approximately 30 minutes long and are subject to change without notice.
Our online video conference room link for these recordings is always http://zoom.siliconvalleyrotary.com/. You are welcome to join us! Please note the timezone listed for all recordings is US Pacific Time (San Francisco, California, USA).
If you can’t join the live recording, please send your questions for an upcoming speaker to programs@siliconvalleyrotary.com.
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