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NGCP SEPTEMBER WEBCAST: Good
Assessment = Success:
Developing Assessment Based Outreach
Activities
September 12, 2007, 11:00-12:00
PDT
Are our outreach activities successful? Do
they
meet
our basic goals? Good assessment helps
highlight
what
works and what needs improvement, provides
good
data
for funders, and keeps us from repeating the
same
mistakes.
Join Barbara Bogue and Rose Marra, co-
founders
of
the AWE (Assessing Women and Men in
Engineering)
Project, to learn more about developing
assessment
based programs, gain access to high quality
pre-
college
survey instruments (that get at more than
participant
satisfaction), and ask questions.
Barbara Bogue is an Associate
Professor of
Engineering Science and Mechanics and
Women in
Engineering and a consultant for the National
Girls
Collaborative Project. Rose M. Marra is an
Associate Professor of Learning Technologies
and
Co-
PI of the NGCP. Dr. Marra and Ms. Bogue
founded
and
run the NSF-sponsored AWE Project
(AWEonline.org),
are recipients of WEPANıs Betty Vetter
Research
Award and have been conducting assessment
and
evaluation workshops for over 10
years.
To register:
http://www.ngcproject.org/events/webcast.cfm
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The Science House Girls Collaborative
Kick-Off Meeting
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
9:00 AM-4:00 PM
The Friday Institute
NCSU, Centennial Campus, Raleigh
Activities include a thorough
introduction to the Collaborative, and
opportunities to
meet
others with an interest in encouraging girls in
STEM
careers. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Jamila
Simpson. Jamila holds a Ph.D in science
education
and has taught at Imhotep Academy, Kyran
Anderson
Academy, and the NC Museum of Natural
Sciences.
Teleconference options available.
http://www.science
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house.org/ngcp/kickoff.html
Northwest Girls Collaborative
Fall Forum "Building Capacity through
Collaboration"
Saturday, September 29, 2007
9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Washington State University, Pullman
Plan to network with other girl-serving
organizations, participate in a hands on STEM
activity,
learn about opportunities to collaborate, share
resources, and engage in thoughtful
discussions with
others who serve girls.
To register:
http://www.erasurvey.org/websurvey/NWGCPN
ET.htm
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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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, and 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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Resources |
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Back to School: Five Myths about Girls and
Science
New resources for parents and teachers can
help students be successful in math and
science
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news
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m.jsp?cntn_id=109939
Quality Time After School In Brief
Drawing on extensive qualitative and
quantitative data
collected from five
Philadelphia-based Beacon Centers, this study
identifies characteristics of after-school
activities that
are linked to youth engagement and learning
across a
rich diversity of out-of-school-time activity
areas.
http://www.ppv.org/ppv/youth/youth_publications
.asp?section_id=8
IGNITE (Inspiring Girls Now In Technology
Evolution) Receives Award
IGNITE, an innovative program connecting high
school
girls
with professional women in technology careers,
was
the 2007 winner of the national "Programs and
Practices that Work: Preparing Students for
Nontraditional Careers" Award. IGNITE founder
Cathi
Rodgveller, a Seattle Public Schools
nontraditional
careers specialist, and technology industry
leaders
including Microsoft Women in IT, Cisco, T-
Mobile,
University of Washington, and The Boeing
Corporation, were recognized for their
accomplishments at a congressional and media
briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, July
19, 2007.
http://www.ignite-
us.org
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.
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