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Western Pennsylvania Section of WAAIME

The Women's Auxiliary to the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers, Inc. (WAAIME) was formed 1916 in New York City. There are approximately 1000 members organized in twenty sections across the United States and two international sections in Mexico City and in Lima, Peru. WAAIME promotes education in the mining, minerals and petroleum engineering fields.

Goals of WAAIME are

1. To render service to the country and to the community through all that pertains to the minerals and petroleum professions and their related fields.

2. To promote discussion and the exchange of ideas among members of the organization.

3. To secure and maintain funds to provide loans for college students in the minerals and petroleum fields and allied disciplines.

4. To promote the study of earth sciences in elementary and secondary grades and to educate students regarding the importance of the minerals and petroleum industries.

For information on membership, the Scholarship Loan Fund (SLF) program, the Education for Tomorrow (EFT) programs, and other information contact

My Favorite Minerals

Middle school students write poems about "Minerals and Me - What is the Connection"
for our National Poem/Essay Contest

Download the 2003 booklet
Download the 2002 booklet
Download the 2001 booklet
(PDF format, reading requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (free, available at www.adobe.com ) 

2004 Contest July 2003 through January 2004:  Sign up now
Cash Prizes for Students and Teachers
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To honor Earth Day, April 22nd, the WAAIME organization holds a “Minerals and Me – What is the Connection?” Essay and Poem Contest. The winning students receive a commemorative coin, minted by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration and a prize of $25.00. The students that entered the contest are nine to sixteen years old and come from communities across the United States and Mexico.  Eighteen teachers with participating students won $125 for earth science materials. The forty winning essays will be featured in a booklet to be published by WAAIME.

The WAAIME organization is best known for its many decades of awarding college scholarships to promising young men and women who major in the earth sciences. Our organization would like to remind all of you that:

“If It Cannot Be Grown, Then It Must Be Mined”

The following documents contain some memorable quotes from the contestants describing their favorite minerals.
Download and view these summaries: 2000 Issue    2001 Issue
(PDF format, reading requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (free, available at www.adobe.com ) 

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