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The Power of Collaboration
The Kentucky Girls STEM Collaborative Project
Kick-Off conference will be the tenth
NGCP kick-off conference offered in the six
years of the National Girls Collaborative
Project work. Conferences have been held in
California, Florida, Massachusetts, North
Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Washington, and
Wisconsin, serving over 1,000 individuals and
programs. Keynotes have been provided by
astronauts, computer scientists, girls, and
researchers. As of May 2008, there are 650
active STEM-focused girl serving programs and
individuals listed in the Program Directory,
representing 45 states. The purpose of this
Directory is to help organizations and
individuals network, share resources, and
collaborate on STEM-related projects for
girls. More than 100 mini-grants have
supported 245 programs serving 5,675 girls.
Practitioners and researchers have offered
seven Webcasts attended by a total of 250
individuals. Webcasts and resources are
archived on the NGCP site. In the Fall,
kick-off conferences will be offered in
Connecticut, Maine, and Tennessee. If you
are new to the project or haven't had an
opportunity to collaborate, please take some
time to visit the Web site, review the
various programs and services in your area
that are listed in the Program Directory, and
join your colleagues in encouraging girls to
pursue careers in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
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Texas Kick-Off Conference
The Kick-Off event was held on April 18,
2008. One hundred and twenty people from
across Texas came to the Texas
Club at
the University of
Texas - Austin to learn
more about
the Texas Girls
Collaborative Project. The keynote speaker
was Duy-Loan Le, who is featured on the Bold
Visions - Women in Science and Engineering
DVD. The agenda
included a panel discussion, a number of
round table
discussions and concluded with door prizes.
The room was buzzing with
the sound
of collaboration!
Kentucky Girls STEM Collaborative Project
Kick-Off
Conference
May 23, 2008
10:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.
University of Kentucky - Lexington
This event will launch
the start of
the Kentucky
Girls STEM Collaborative. The Conference
will
provide information on mini-grant availability,
showcase girl-serving STEM programs in Kentucky,
and provide networking activities.
Kentucky
Secretary of Education, Helen Mountjoy, will
welcome
the group, followed by a panel of phenomenal
women
from the community. Exhibits, roundtable
discussions, and lunch will be included. For
more information, contact Sue Scheff at
suescheff@uky.edu.
Register:
http://www.ngcproject.org/events/events.cfm?eventid=71
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Upcoming Events |
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NGCP May Webcast
You Can Make a Difference: Learn How
to Plan
Role Model Visits and Field Trips to Inspire
Girls in
Technology, Science, and Engineering
May 14, 2008
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. PDT
How can I get my students excited about a
career in
technology, science, or engineering? How can
I work
better with industry professionals and corporate
partners to encourage outreach to students?
When a
role model visits my classroom, how can I
make sure
they are engaging and able to excite my students
about careers in science, technology, and
engineering? Participate in this Webcast to
learn how
to address these questions and help role
models connect with girls in your community.
Since
2000, Techbridge
has
served over 2,000 girls, 7,000
educators, and
corporate partners through trainings and
resources.
With hands-on projects like the Green Dollhouse
Project and Cars and Engines that capture girls'
interest Techbridge has successfully put
girls into the
STEM pipeline.
Register: http://www.ngcproject.org/events/webcasts.cfm
WEPAN National Conference
Gateway to Diversity: Getting Results
through
Strategic Communications
Hyatt Regency St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
June 8-10, 2008
The Women in Engineering Programs and
Advocates Network's (WEPAN) National Conference
is a lively forum
with opportunities to foster conversations
among educators, researchers, academic
leaders, women in engineering and science
staff, corporate and government advocates and
others who work to effect gender equity in
STEM fields. http://www.wepan.org
AGELE National Conference
Building Leadership for Diversity in
Education: Examining the Gender Intersect
Boston Marriott Peabody
Peabody, Massachusetts
July 27-30, 2008
The Association for
Gender Equity in Leadership in
Education's (AGELE) National Conference
is themed "Building Leadership for Diversity
in Education: Examining the Gender
Intersect." The program includes three
excellent pre-conference sessions, a workshop
for Title IX Coordinators, a workshop on
Single Sex Education, and a workshop on
investigating complaints and reports of
harassment, along with plenty of fascinating
concurrent sessions.
http://www.agele.org/conf2008/
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Resources |
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CSTA's "Imagine Your Future in Computing"
Brochure in Spanish
Too often, young women do not receive the
information they need about available careers. We
continue to
find that young Hispanic/Latina women are far
less
likely to consider STEM career opportunities
because
their families have little accessible
information. To
address this problem the Computer
Science Teachers Association has created
a Spanish-language
version of its highly-popular
"Imagine Your
Future in Computing" brochure. If your
project serves
students in this community, free copies are
available for girls and parents. To order
copies, contact Chris Stephenson at
cstephenson@csta.acm.org or
1-800-401-1799.
Project Exploration - Discover Your Summer
2008
This summer science resource guide includes more
than 160 programs for middle and high school
students throughout the Midwest. Thanks to a
special partnership with the Self Reliance
Foundation,
students can also access information about
programs in Spanish.
The guide is free and available at:
http://www.projectexploration.org/dys.htm
Student Interview Podcasts Now
Available
Thanks to support from Cisco
Systems, The
Science House and Expanding
Your Horizons (EYH) teamed up to create
podcasts of student
interviews with scientists and engineers for
North Carolina's annual EYH conference. EYH
and The Science House created four podcasts,
three in English and one in Spanish. To
access the podcasts, visit
http://wolfcast.ncsu.edu/itunes/
and choose
"Physical and Mathematical Sciences."
http://www.science-house.org/student/eyh/
FairerScience - Women in Science Blogs
The FairerScience "Using
Women in Science Blogs to Encourage Girls in
Science" Web site provides information about
and links to blogs by women in scientific
fields. Girls interested in STEM fields can
read what real women in science are writing
about their lives as scientists and students.
The blogs also allow girls to
network with women in STEM fields. Women in
science blogs are available on
numerous topics, including biochemistry,
sport science, engineering, art and biology,
and more.
http://www.fairerscience.org/
Year of Science 2009 - Explore, Empower,
Engage
The Coalition
on the Public Understanding of Science is
hosting
the Year of Science 2009,
a national year-long celebration to engage
the public in science and improve
public understanding about how science works,
why it matters, and who scientists are. The
Web site provides fun activities to
celebrate the Year of Science and also
provides a networking site to locate
coalition members.
http://www.copusproject.org/yearofscience2009/
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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