NGCP Updates |
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New Search Features in the NGCP Program
Directory
An advanced search option is now available
for NGCP Program Directory users. The
advanced search allows users to locate
programs by populations
served, collaboration interests, and
service delivery format. The service delivery
format is especially useful
for parents and educators looking for after
school programs, summer offerings, special
events, and more.
http://ngcproject.org/directory/programsearch.cfm
?adv
NGCP February Webcast
Best Practices in Creating Successful
Collaborations: Lessons Learned from the
National Girls Collaborative Project
February 11, 2009
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific
NGCP uses a number of strategic activities to
encourage collaboration among girl-serving
STEM projects and programs. This webcast will
examine the key elements of effective
collaboration by providing lessons learned
from NGCP project staff and partners.
Register: http://
ngcproject.org/events/webcasts.cfm
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Regional Collaborative News |
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Great Lakes Girls Collaborative-Indiana
Kickoff Event
The Grea
t
Lakes Girls Collaborative Project (GLGCP)
will host the Indiana Kick-Off Event on
February 21, 2009, at the Indiana
University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Campus Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. If
members of your organizations or agency are
interested in increasing capacity to involve
girls in STEM through collaboration with
others, attend to find out
about NGCP and GLGCP, network with
others, and learn about
mini-grant opportunities.
Register: http://ngcproject.org/events/events.cfm?
eventid=113
Regional Collaboratives Currently Offering
Mini-Grants
A number of regional collaboratives are
currently accepting mini-grant applications
from collaborating programs in their state or
region. NGCP
mini-grants are awarded to girl-serving
science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) focused programs to
support collaboration, address gaps and
overlaps in service, and share promising
practices.
- Northeastern mini-grants close January
21, 2009
- Kentucky mini-grants close January 31,
2009
- Maine mini-grants
close January 31, 2009
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Upcoming Events |
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SITE 2009 International Conference
Charleston, South Carolina
March 2-6, 2009
The Society
for Information Technology and Teacher
Education (SITE) and
the Association
for the Advancement of
Computing in Education
(AACE) have organized this annual forum to
offer numerous opportunities to share ideas,
explore current research, and to
network with field
leaders.
http://site.aace.org/conf/
NAPE's 30th Annual Professional
Development Institute
Arlington, Virginia
March 28 - April 2, 2009
This spring, Women
Work! and the National
Alliance for Partnerships in Equity will
once again bring experts from the workforce
development community to Washington, DC, for
three days of professional development,
networking, and advocacy opportunities.
http://www.womenwork.org/network/conferences.htm
WEPAN 2009 National Conference
Center Stage: Effective Strategies for
Recruitment and Talent Development
Austin, Texas
June 17-19, 2009
The Women in Engineering ProActive Network's
(WEPAN) national conference gathers over 200
professionals annually to translate the most
current research into best practices.
Recurring and emerging issues are addressed
by participants representing industry,
community college and universities, K-12 and
informal education, policy makers, and other
advocates.
http://www.wepan.org/
AGELE 30th Annual National Conference
Educational Equity for the 21st Century:
Increasing Achievement for All
Los Angeles, California
August 1-3, 2009
The 2009 Association for Gender Equity
Leadership in Education (AGELE) National
Conference will be held at the Manhattan
Beach Marriott in Los Angeles. The planning
team is developing a conference program that
will include keynote speakers, concurrent
themed sessions, exhibits, and other
activities. Proposals are due March 1, 2009.
http://www.agele.org
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Resources |
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New AWE Project Resources
Visit AWEonline.org to see new Applying
Research to Practice (ARP) Resources on
Mentoring, Self-Efficacy in STEM, and
Motivational Factors in STEM: Interest and
Academic Self Concept. ARP Resources replace
the Assessing Women and Men in Engineering
(AWE) Overviews and are a project of Society
of Women Engineers AWE and NAE CASEE. The
revised AWE Data Entry Templates for
pre-college surveys are also now available.
The templates offer a place to record
responses to the AWE pre-college surveys and
a guide to creating graphs and statistics for
use in evaluating the activity and reports.
These resources and tools are available for
download at www.AWEonline.org.
Sounds of Progress Radio Series Available
Online
WAMC Northeast Public Radio's series, The
Sounds of Progress: The Changing Role of
Girls and Women in Science and
Engineering, is now available through
WAMC's Women
in Science Web site. Listen to the series
as streaming audio, download a podcast, or
request a free CD set. Supported by NSF, the
series highlights the role of women, past and
present, in science and engineering education
and careers.
Great Science for Girls
Working with afterschool centers around the country
Great Science
for Girls delivers curricula, research, and
professional
development and consulting services to help promote
the concept that science is, indeed, a "girl thing."
Offering evidence-based programs with proven
effectiveness, GSG provides listings of useful Web
sites for girls and practitioners, role models/mentors,
professional development, families, and
organizations, as well as research on the most
effective practices in afterschool and STEM.
Free Science Teaching Resources Online
Federal
Resources for Educational Excellence
connects visitors to a number of free online
teaching resources for science education. Enduring
Resources for Earth Sciences Education is
a database of materials for teaching earth
science concepts. Ocean
Service Education provides online
tutorials on corals, currents, estuaries,
geodesy, pollution, and tides. And Science
of Spectroscopy features a wiki-based
effort to tell the story of spectroscopy -
the use of light to study matter.
NGCP Program Directory - Register your
Program
Today!
The online Program Directory lists
organizations and
programs that focus on motivating girls to
pursue
STEM careers. The purpose of the directory
is
to help
organizations and individuals network, share
resources, and collaborate on STEM-related
projects
for girls. When you sign up for the Program
Directory
you will enter your program description,
resources
available within your organization, program,
and/or
organizational needs and contact
information. Over 1,000 active programs are
registered in the NGCP Program Directory, so
it continues to be one of the best
ways to collaborate online with other
girl-serving
STEM organizations.
http://www.ngcproject.org/directory
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American
Association of University
Women
(AAUW) members across the
country are serving as
Regional Liaisons for the National
Girls
Collaborative Project. These
Regional
Liaisons help the people involved
in the NGCP
to make connections - to one
another, to
resources on gender equity, and to
AAUW.
AWE
is the Assessing Women and Men
in
Engineering
Project, which provides exportable
assessment
instruments, literature resources,
and methodologies
for Women in Engineering and
similar programs. AWE is developing
resources for
use by K-12 STEM programs as part of
NGCP
services.
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The goal of the National Girls
Collaborative Project
is to maximize access to shared
resources within
projects and with public and private
sector
organizations and institutions
interested in
expanding girls' participation in
STEM.
Find out more....
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