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North Carolina Kick-Off Event
Over 60 people from education, business and girl-
serving programs attended the North
Carolina Girls Collaborative Kick-Off at three locations
on Tuesday, September 18. The primary conference
location, the Science House, at NC State University,
used video conferencing to
connect with two other locations in North Carolina.
The agenda included opportunities for
participants to network, presentations from AAUW and
local girl-serving STEM programs, a fabulous keynote
address from NC State's first African American female
graduate of the meteorology program and
demonstrations of some of the online NGCP tools for
networking and mini-grant applications. One
participant's comment at the end of the day was, "I
absolutely loved spending the day with other like-
minded people who care about supporting girls in
STEM pursuits. I can't wait to get more involved in this
effort." Congratulations to the NC leadership team!
http://www.science-
house.org/ngcp/kickoff.html
New Versions of Two AWE Retention Tracking
Instruments
Retention of students in engineering continues to be
of concern. To best address this area, we need to
know what contributes to both students persisting in
engineering and what contributes to their leaving. The
AWE Students Leaving Engineering and the Student
Persisting in Engineering Instruments are revised and
help answer these questions by
identifying areas where support activities or other
changes may be warranted that could impact
retention. The new versions are streamlined for easier
data collection and, when both are implemented, will
provide comparative results for "leavers"
versus "stayers".
http://www.AWEonline.org
American Association of University Women
State branches get the word out about NGCP
Several AAUW state branches are publicizing NGCP
on their Web sites. Check
out the following for more information and
contact your state or local AAUW branch to get
involved.
Massachusetts:
http://www.aauw-
ma.org (select 'collaborative partnerships')
North Carolina:
http://www.aauw-nc.org/wp/category/stem
Pennsylvania:
http://www.aauwpa.org/EF_science_technology.
htm
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California Girls Collaborative
CAL Girls Conference
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
9:30 AM-3:00 PM
UC Berkeley, Clark Kerr Campus
This
event
is targeted for
organizations with programs that support girls
in
science, math, engineering and technology
(STEM).
Representatives from K-12 schools, higher
education,
professional organizations, business,
government
and community-based organizations are
encouraged
to attend. Registration fee is $25, which
includes morning coffee, lunch and parking.
To register:
http://calgirls.llnl.gov/reg
More about CAL Girls and upcoming
events:
http://www.ngcproject.org/california
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Upcoming Events |
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NGCP OCTOBER WEBCAST
Tools for Collaboration Success: NGCP Mini-
Grants
October 10, 2007, 11:00-12:00 PDT
Sometimes great ideas and new collaborative
projects need a little help getting started. In this
interactive webcast you'll learn how to create
collaborations using NGCP mini-grant funding. Mini-
grants are designed to support collaboration,
assessment activities, projects related to addressing
gaps and overlaps in service, and sharing promising
practices. Past mini-grant recipients will share
inspiring stories and outline strategies for successful
partnership and program development. Mini-grant
application basics and requirements will be
presented. Since 2002, the NGCP has awarded over
100 mini-grants to organizations in California,
Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Oregon,
Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin that support girl-
serving science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) focused programs.
To register:
http://www.ngcproject.org/events/webcast.cfm
Assessing Women and Men in Engineering
Project (AWE) Offers Workshop at SWE
National
Convention
October 26, 2007
Make Assessment Work for YOU.
Take your outreach activity to the next level.
Go beyond
finding out whether participants had fun. Find
out if
they learned what you intended. This
interactive
workshop will cover how to integrate good
assessment into planning and follow up in even
the
leanest of teams, and how to turn
assessment data into effective tools for
continuous
development, fundraising and reports.
Participants
will develop assessment-based implementation
plans as they learn to use the new SWE-AWE
ADAPT
online database for tracking activities and
participants
(bring your laptop).
http://www.swe07.org/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=
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NGCP NOVEMBER WEBCAST
Effective strategies
for working with girls in Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
November 14, 2007, 11:00-12:00 PST
Whether your program connects girls to professional
female mentors, exposes girls to science at a local
museum, or teaches girls robotics after school, there
are key strategies that are effective when working with
girls in STEM. Learn from experts in the field
what research and practice tell us about high-quality
informal learning programs for girls in STEM.
To register:
http://www.ngcproject.org/events/webcast.cfm
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Resources |
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AWM Essay Contest: Biographies of
Contemporary Women in Mathematics
To increase awareness of women's ongoing
contributions to the mathematical sciences, the
Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is
sponsoring an essay contest for biographies of
contemporary women mathematicians and
statisticians in academic, industrial, and government
careers.
http://www.awm-
math.org/biographies/contest.html
Global Challenge Award
Want to save the planet? Win money for college? Meet
people from around the world? Work on a cool project?
The Global Challenge is looking for a high school
student who is interested in helping save the planet
from global warming and learning more about
science, technology, engineering and mathematics
while working with an international team using
advanced technologies. This is a great after-school,
independent study or curriculum enhancement
project.
http://www.globalchallengeaward.org/
NPR Science Friday Podcast Archive
Harvey Mudd College President, Maria Klawe was a
guest on National Public
Radio's (NPR) Talk of the Nation: Science Friday
program, where she discussed women and
mathematics with host Ira Flatow. They were joined by
actress and mathematician Danica McKellar, who
authored the book "Math Doesn't Suck:
How to Survive Middle-School Math Without Losing
Your Mind or Breaking a Nail."
Access the podcast archive:
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2007/Sep/
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/index.cfm
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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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