APANET in May: Cooking Workshop | Tea Break & APANETalk | Happy Hour | AAPI Heritage Month Program | Newsletter
MAY is National Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
The 2013 national theme is “Building Leadership: Embrace the Cultural Values and Inclusion”. Check out how APANET is helping to build leadership in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month by participating in the events below:
[The links are live so please check back periodically for updates]
Registration is full. WebEx is available.
Click here for Cooking Workshop Information.
APANETalks will be introduced for the first time ever as a forum for discussing and learning about Asian American- and Pacific Islander-related topics.
Our first APANETalk is “5 Steps to Improving AAPI Representation in the Senior Executive Service” given by Bismarck Myrick, Director of the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity.
The APANETalk is open to all USPTO employees.
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Cheer on our team The APANET Piranhas as they race other teams from the region.
Click here for DC Dragon Boat Schedule
Come and learn to speak a little bit of everything including Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Mandarin and etc. at Sumo Hibachi & Sushi Restaurant (behind Madison), special happy hour pricing, mingle, and enjoy light appetizers!
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The program will include cultural dances, lunch featuring pan-Asian cuisine, and keynote speaker Ray Chen, Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property Law and Solicitor, who has been nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Click here for AAPI Heritage Month Program Information.
Registration is required and information will be provided at a later time.
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The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of Asian and Pacific Islanders.
Click here for other AAPI Heritage Month Events.
APANET Newsletter
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This current issue recaps the events from 2012 and introduces the 2013 board of directors. The newsletter is planned for biannual publishing and welcomes articles and topics from the membership. Submissions will be reviewed and published at the discretion of APANET.
To make a submission, please contact Sam Zhao at xiao.zhao@uspto.gov.
VOLUNTEER AT APANET EVENTS
We have had a great response to our initiative to get our membership involved through volunteering. If you would like to find more ways to get involved with APANET through volunteering, please contact Angela Nguyen at angela.nguyen@uspto.gov.
We hope to see you at these APANET events and hope you have an APANETerrific day!