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NGCP webcasts will be taking July and
August off, returning on September 10, 2008.
All previous NGCP webcasts are
archived
and accessible on the NGCP Web site.
Webcasts have focused on a variety of
topics relevant to girls in STEM, including
evaluating girl-serving STEM outreach
activities, applying for NGCP mini-grants,
and reaching underserved populations in
STEM.
For example, the November 2007 webcast
presented 'Effective Strategies for
Working with Girls in STEM'. Sarita Nair-
Pillai,
Education Development Center, presented
current research on engaging girls in STEM,
including mentoring, experiential learning and
fostering persistence. Jill Denner, Girl Game Company,
and Zakiyyah Kareem, Girlstart,
provided real-life examples of implementing
these research-based strategies in their girl-
serving STEM programs.
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Regional Collaborative News |
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Mini-grants Available to Increase Girls'
Interest in STEM
The Kentucky
Girls STEM Collaborative is currently
offering mini-grants of up to $1,000.
Projects may vary from a one-day event
with a single classroom or Girl Scout troop
partnering with a professional organization,
corporation, or an extended project of
monthly meetings or summer camp.
Applications for mini-grants accepted from
July 1- July 31. For more information:
http://www.ngcproject.org/
mini-grant
Regional Collaboratives Kick-Off
Conferences This Fall
Girls Raised in Tennessee
Science Collaborative Kick-Off
Middle Tennessee State
University
September 26, 2008
http://www.ngcproject.org/tennessee
Maine Girls Collaborative
Project Kick-Off
Wells
Commons, University of
Maine
October 10, 2008
http:
//www.ngcproject.org/maine
Connecticut Girls
Collaborative Kick-Off
Yale
Peabody Museum
October 23, 2008
http://www.ngcproject.org/connecticut
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Upcoming Events |
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Effective Education Partnerships
Conference (EEPC)
Fairfax, Virginia
July 10-11, 2008
Designed to bring together various
stakeholders in business/education
partnerships, one EEPC
breakout session (July 10) will address
corporate partnerships that can make a
difference in math and science
education.
http://www.eepc2008.com/register.htm
The Earth Then, Earth Now: Our
Changing
Climate Educator Conference
Silver Spring, Maryland
July 23-24, 2008
Educators in the Washington, D.C. area who
want
to learn how to bring this topic
into their curriculum are invited to this
conference, sponsored by
the National
Science Teachers Association and Sally
Ride Science.
http://www.sall
yridescience.com/for_educators/
conferences
/climate
Association for
Gender Equity in Leadership in
Education (AGELE) National Conference
Building Leadership for Diversity in
Education: Examining the Gender Intersect
Peabody, Massachusetts
July 27-30, 2008
http://
www.agele.org/conf2008/
National Conference on Science in
Out-of-School Time
Chicago, Illinois
September 17-19, 2008
This conference, hosted by the Coalition
for Science After School and Project
Exploration, will discuss the growing
movement for science and technology in
out-of-school time. http://www.scienceafterschoolconfe
rence.org/
Society of Women Engineers 2008
Conference
AWE Implementation Workshop
Baltimore, Maryland
November 8, 2008
NGCP representatives will lead a hands-on
session on how to integrate assessment into
program planning cycles and use the Assessing Women in Engineering
(AWE) pre-college instruments developed in
collaboration with NGCP. NGCP affiliates and
members may attend at a special, one-day
conference rate.
http://www.we08.org/
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Resources |
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Microsoft Expression Web Software
Available for NGCP Members
Microsoft
has donated their Expression Web Software to the
National
Girls Collaborative Project to distribute to
non-profit organizations
working with high school girls. The software
allows students to learn how to build a Web
site from the ground up. Tutorial and
curriculum units available at www.microsoft.com/facu
ltyconnection/precollegiate.
To request a free copy of
the software, complete the online
form by July 31.
http://www.ngcproject.org/softwarerequest/
U.S. House of Representatives
Celebrates
Women in STEM
On June 4, the U.S. House of
Representatives
approved a resolution
recognizing the efforts of outstanding women
scientists, technologists, engineers, and
mathematicians in the U.S. and around the
world. The resolution found that schools must
continue to
cultivate female scientists, technologists,
engineers, and mathematicians from every
background; and there is a disproportionately
low number of female students pursuing
careers in STEM, so it is crucial that we
focus attention on increasing the
participation of women.
New Arctic Web Site from the
Exploratorium
The Ice
Stories: Dispatches from Polar
Scientists
Web site, developed by the Explora
torium,
allows site visitors to meet penguin
biologists, glaciologists, cosmologists,
geologists, and marine scientists working in
Antarctica and the Arctic. The site features
dynamic information about the effect of
climate change on the Arctic, people of the
Arctic, polar geography, Antarctic projects,
news stories, and more.
NSF Sounds of Progress Radio
Series
WAMC
Northeast Public Radio hosts the
NSF-supported radio program The
Sounds of Progress: The Changing Role of
Girls and Women in Science and
Engineering. The program is a two-part
radio series designed to help inform the
national effort to broaden the participation
of women and girls in STEM. The program
features documentary-style stories about the
latest gender-based research and practices,
along with short radio stories about
pioneering women through history who have
made an impact in STEM fields. The stories
will air in July
on WAMC's nationally-syndicated radio
program, 51%.
All fifty-five stories will be available on
the project Web site this summer.
Design Squad Trash to Treasure
Competition
The PBS
Design Squad is accepting design
submissions inventions that recycle, reuse,
and re-engineer everyday materials into an
out-of-the-box invention. The invention
submissions should move things or people,
protect the environment, or be used for
indoor or outdoor play. Grand Prize winners
will receive $10,000, a Dell laptop, a trip to
Boston to see the design built, and an
appearance on the Design Squad PBS show
or
Web site. Submissions will be accepted
online
through August 31, 2008.
Women in Science Booklet
Download
The Women
in Science Booklet, created by Science
Magazine in partnership with the L'Oréal
Corporate Foundation, presents a
collection of inspirational
stories from women in all walks of life whose
common passion is science. The booklet is
intended to motivate and inspire young
women
to pursue a career in science or engineering.
NGCP Event Calendar
NGCP Collaborative Leads can now add
events
to the NGCP
Event Calendar. If your organization is
hosting an event of interest to girl-serving
STEM
programs, send the event information to your
Collaborative Lead or to Mary
Swift. The Event Calendar is one of the
most visited pages on the NGCP site, so it is
great way to learn about and promote STEM
events.
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.
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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