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NGCP April Webcast
Engaging in Science; Enhancing Gender
Awareness
April 21, 2009, 12:00 - 1:00 PM Pacific
This webcast is designed to provide an
overview of the need, rationale, and research
behind embedding certain strategies into
science learning opportunities. Two leaders
in gender and science, Dale McCreedy and
Maryann Stimmer, will highlight several
exemplary programs and their impacts.
Dale McCreedy is Director of Gender
and Family Learning Programs at The Franklin
Institute in Philadelphia. She has
pioneered the development of science museum
program structures and resources to encourage
girls and young women in science through
collaboration with local and national partner
organizations. Maryann Stimmer is Coordinator
of Science Programs at the Educational
Equity Center at the Academy for Educational
Development (EEC@AED) and Science Manager
at The
After-School Corporation (TASC). She is
currently leading an initiative at TASC to
build comfort and confidence in afterschool
staff to deliver quality afterschool science
and math experiences.
Register: http://www.ngcproject.org/events/events.cfm?eventid=134
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Great Lakes Girls Collaborative Kick-Off
Conference
The Great
Lakes Girls Collaborative hosted
the Indiana
Kick-Off Event on February 21, 2009, at
the Indiana University-Purdue University
Indianapolis Campus Center. The event
provided networking for the 40 participants,
information about mini-grant
opportunities, and connected participants to
resources. A panel presentation
focused on
informal learning strategies and programs.
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Midwest Girls Collaborative Kick-Off
Conference, Naperville, IL
April 17, 2009
The Midwest
Girls Collaborative will host a Kick-Off
Conference at the Northern Illinois
University Conference Center. The conference
will help participants find resources and
funding to create STEM activities for girls.
Participants will also network with
STEM partners and learn about hands-on
nanotechnology.
Register: http://www.icsps.ilstu.edu/services/registration/mwgcp/kickoff09.html
Pacific Northwest Girls Collaborative
Forum, Portland, OR
April 22, 2009
At Lewis & Clark College,
the Pacific
Northwest Girls Collaborative (PNWGCP),
along with the Northwest
Regional Educational Laboratory, Institute
of Education Sciences, and the Lewis &
Clark College Graduate School of Education
and Counseling will host a professional
development workshop on engaging girls in
math and science. Workshop participants will
hear from an expert panel of teachers, programs
directors, and role models in STEM careers.
PNWGCP is also currently accepting mini-grant
applications through May 22,
2009.
Register: http://www.nwrel.org/events/see/133/
PA STEM Girls Collaborative Kick-Off
Conference, Philadelphia, PA
May 5, 2009
The PA
STEM Girls Collaborative will host a
Kick-Off Conference at the Franklin
Institute in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania
is one of six states awarded funding by the
National
Governors Association to support STEM
education. The PA STEM Girls Collaborative is
an extension of this effort and assists in
creating collaborations across Pennsylvania
to increase girls' interest in
STEM.
Register: http://www.ngcproject.org/events/events.cfm?eventid=133
Northeastern Girls Collaborative Rhode
Island Forum, Warwick, RI
May 16, 2009
At the New England
Institute of Technology, the Northeastern
Girls Collaborative (NEGC) will
officially kick-off its expansion into Rhode
Island. The Rhode Island forum will help
connect participants with resources needed to
increase STEM
participation and opportunities available to
girls.
Great Lakes Girls Collaborative Project
Professional Development Forum, Indianapolis,
IN
May 20, 2009
The Great
Lakes Girls Collaborative - Indiana will
host a professional development forum at Marian
College. Topics to be presented: using
ALICE software to increase girls' interest in
computer science, middle school robotics,
Purdue University's K-12 outreach program,
and more.
Register: http://www.ngcproject.org/events/events.cfm?eventid=129
Kentucky Girls STEM Collaborative Annual
Conference, Lexington, KY
June 15, 2009
The Kentucky
Girls STEM Collaborative will host its
first annual conference, designed to bring
together educators,
industry, mini-grant awardees, and
government to explore ways
to increase the number of Kentucky girls
interested in STEM careers.
Mini-grant awardees will present on their
activities and experiences helping support
girls in STEM.
Register: http://www.ngcproject.org/events/events.cfm?eventid=127
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Upcoming STEM Events |
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National Middle School Association Free
Spring Webinars
April 7, 2009, 3:30 PM Eastern
Getting to the Good Stuff: Online Resources
for Middle School Math and Science
Explore the National
Science Digital Library and the Middle School
Portal Math and Science Pathways to find
valuable Web materials.
April 28, 2009, 3:30 PM Eastern
Global Warming and the Polar Regions
Find resources on climate change for the
middle school science classroom.
http://www.nmsa.org/ProfessionalDevelopment/Webinars/
tabid/1011/Default.aspx
Wow! That's Engineering! Society of Women
Engineers Event, Lowell, MA
May 2, 2009
Teen girls in grades 8-10 are encouraged to
attend this Society of
Women Engineers Boston event at the
University of Massachusetts Lowell. The event
will feature fun activities and projects
related to chemical, mechanical, civil, and
electrical engineering designed to get girls
interested in these fields.
http://www.sweboston.org/wow/
AWIS Women in Science and Technology
Conference, San Diego, CA
May 9, 2009
The Association
for Women in Science (AWIS) San Diego
chapter is hosting their ninth annual
forum for women to network and to attend
sessions on career development and scientific
hot topics.
http://awis.npaci.edu/WIST/index.htm
International Symposium on Engineering
Education and Educational Technology 2009
(EEET 2009),
Orlando, FL
July 10-13, 2009
EEET 2009 will bring together
academics and practitioners from
engineering education, educational
technologies, and educational systems
engineering to support collaboration in these
areas.
http://www.ICTconfer.org/eeet
Techbridge Summer Training
Institute, Oakland, CA
August 3-5, 2009
Are you interested in developing or enhancing
a program to encourage girls in technology,
science, or engineering? Would you like to
gain girl-tested, hands-on curriculum and
learn strategies for success? A program
of
Chabot
Space & Science Center, Techbridge
has
served over 2,500 girls in after-school and
summer programs since 2000, offering
hands-on
engineering and technology projects and
career exploration opportunities such as
field trips to corporate worksites and
classroom visits by role models.
http://www.techbridgegirls.org/programs_institute.asp
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Resources |
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Project Exploration Discover Your Summer
2009
Project
Exploration has released Discover
Your Summer 2009, its third annual
resource guide to summer science education
opportunities for middle and high school
students. The guide highlights 175 science
programs - primarily in the Midwest - and
offers tips on completing applications and
preparing for interviews. Discover Your
Summer encourages students, especially
minority youth and girls, to participate in
summer science enrichment programs to broaden
their horizons and prepare them for future
education.
Guidelines for Fostering Inclusion through
Afterschool Math
Developed by the Educational
Equity Center at AED, the Afterschool
Inclusive Math (AIM) program and guidelines
were developed to provide youth with and
without disabilities the opportunity to work
together on real-world, inquiry-based math.
AIM is based on After-School
Math PLUS, an engaging curriculum that
helps students find the math in everyday
experiences. After-School Math PLUS creates
unique partnerships between afterschool
centers and science/technology museums.
AWE Pre-College Outreach Surveys Now
Available Online
New, improved Assessing
Women and Men in Engineering Project
pre-college surveys are now available online.
These surveys are easily
adaptable for any organization's or corporate
outreach activities. The AWE Core instruments
address typical objectives of middle school
and high school-aged participant outreach
activities and are supplemented by optional
modules of questions that address additional
objectives. These surveys are housed online
in a SurveyMonkey
account and can be transferred to your own
SurveyMonkey® professional account by
request. Contact awe@engr.psu.edu
if interested in using these instruments.
Innovate: Engineering Change DVD
Available
This DVD Discussion Guide Package contains
highlights from Innovate: Engineering
Change, a program that airs on public
television beginning in April 2009 for Earth
Month. This documentary-style program takes
viewers behind the scenes of a creative
effort to address climate change. An
engineering team installs a turbine with
resigned blades that successfully generate
electricity from moving water. To request a
copy of the DVD, e-mail Mary
Swift. Preference will be given to
girl-serving STEM programs who request twenty
or more copies of the DVD.
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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