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SciGirls Television Series Premiers
Nationwide
SciGirls is a new PBS KIDS weekly television
series and companion Web site that aims to
change how girls think about science,
technology, engineering, and math. In each
episode, animated characters Izzie and her
best friend Jake find themselves in a dilemma
only science can fix. Izzie calls on smart,
curious real-life SciGirls, who put their
science skills to work to save the day. The
show invites viewers to go on to the Web site,
a safe social networking environment where
girls connect, create personal profiles
and avatars, share projects and watch all of
the episodes: http://pbskids.org/sci
girls.
NGCP programs are invited to create project
pages to share with
SciGirls nationwide. SciGirls use ordinary
science and engineering to do the
extraordinary. Be a SciGirl - sign up today!
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Regional
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Kentucky
Girls Collaborative Broadcast at
Basketball Game Halftime
On Saturday, January 23, the Big Blue Sports
Network aired an interview of Kentucky Girls STEM
Collaborative Chair and Vice Chair, Sue
Scheff and Dr. Carol Hanley, at a live
radio broadcast of the Arkansas at UK men's
basketball game. The broadcast highlights
the importance of providing scientific career
options for girls and expanding diversity in
the science workforce. Find an
audio clip of the broadcast here:
http://www.ngcproject.org/kentucky/
Florida Girls Collaborative Project Hosts
Successful Forum
The Florida
Girls Collaborative Project hosted a
forum at Girls Inc of Jacksonville on January
22, 2010. Attendees participated in
networking exercises, learned about the
mini-grant process, and attended a session on
program evaluation by Monika Martin, Outcomes
Research Manager and Grant Coordinator of the
Girl Scouts of West Central Florida. The
forum concluded with hands-on activities from
Techbridge,
Design
Squad and Engineer
Your Life.
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Regional
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Ohio Girls Collaborative Network Kick-Off
Conference, Columbus, OH
March 8, 2010
In conjunction with the Governor's Statewide
Women's Summit, Momentum
2010, the Ohio Girls Collaborative
Network (OGCN) will host a Kick-Off Conference at
the Riffe Center in Columbus. The event will
be held on International Women's Day.
Momentum 2010 will focus on the Governor
Strickland's three priority areas -
education, economics and health. The OGCN
will present sessions on collaboration and
networking, host a panel discussion, and give
an overview of the mini-grant process. The
conference will assist participants in
creating collaborations across Ohio to
increase girls' interest in STEM.
Register: http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=806689
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Upcoming STEM
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Introduce A Girl To Engineering Day
February 18, 2010
As part of National
Engineering Week, Introduce a Girl to
Engineering Day is day to recognize the need
for more women in engineering. The goal is
to reach out to K-12 girls with positive
messages about math and science education and
engineering careers.
http://www.eweek.org/EngineersWeek/Introduce.aspx?ContentID=28
Dare 2B Digital Conference
February 27, 2010
Presented by Invent Your Future Enterprises
and partners, this conference offers young
women in 7th - 10th grades the opportunity
to discover a wide range of computing
technology applications in a fun and engaging
environment. Examples include: how to use
programming to create cool pictures,
animations, stories and games; how Pixar and
Electronic Arts use computing technologies to
make films and video games; how to make a
Farmville Facebook game and more. The
Conference also features presentations and
interactive discussions for parents on how to
best prepare their daughter for academic and
career success.
Register: http://www.dare2bdigitalconference.com
Infinite Possibilities Conference, Los
Angeles, California
March 19-20, 2010
The Infinite Possibilities Conference (IPC)
is a national conference that is designed to
promote, educate, encourage and support
minority women interested in mathematics and
statistics. Sponsors include Building
Diversity in Science (BDIS), The Institute
for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), the
National Security Agency (NSA), Symantec,
Oracle, and UCLA Office of Faculty Diversity.
The conference will include workshops, panel
discussions, student poster sessions,
activities for high school students and
round-table discussions on experiences in
mathematics.
Register:
http://www.ipcmath.org
National Science Teachers Association
Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
March 18-21, 2010
This national conference on science education
offers the latest in science content,
teaching strategies, and research to enhance
professional growth. NSTA conferences include
innovative presentations and hands-on
workshops, special speaker presentations,
educational field trips, short courses,
Professional Development Institutes, and the
opportunity to network with peers.
Register: http://www.nsta.org/philadelphia
USA Science Festival Satellite Events
The USA
Science & Engineering Festival will be
the country's first national science festival
and will be held this Fall in Washington D.C.
To make the Festival a truly national
experience, the Festival Team are encouraging
organizations across the country to host
Satellite Events in their communities the
weekend of October 23 and 24, 2010. Your
event can be customized, and
the USA Science & Engineering Festival team
will help you market it by including your
information on the Festival website.
http://usasciencefestival.org/index.php
Multinational Development of Women in
Technology Annual Conference, Columbia,
Maryland
April 29, 2010
The theme of this year's Multinational
Development of Women in Technology (MDWIT)
Conference is "Global Diversity: Enriching
Technology." The conference will include a
series of speaker presentations, networking
opportunities, and workshops focused on tips
and tools for achieving entrepreneurial
success, increased performance in the
workforce, and strategies on educating
individuals in technological professions.
The "Sponsor a Girl" program will allow high
school girls to attend the conference and
meet women leaders in the field, as well as
the chance to shadow a top level engineer.
Register: http://www.mdwit.org/conference/index.php?ht=d/Home/pid/696
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Resources |
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National Lab Day Informational
Video
National Lab Day is a resource for teachers
working with volunteers from their
communities to give students access to high
quality science education and to the STEM
professionals who can inspire them. For more
information on NLD and how to build a support
network within your community around science
education, view a brief "how to" video.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/open/innovations/national-lab-day.
Great Science for Girls is looking for
partners
The Educational Equity Center at the Academy
of Educational Development (EEC/AED) is
looking for partners to join Great Science
for Girls (GSG), a nationwide initiative
funded by the National Science Foundation.
Working with its partners, GSG builds the
capacity of afterschool programs to provide a
learning environment for girls and boys that
includes opportunities for leadership and
engagement with fun, hands-on, inquiry-based
science experiences. Applications are
encouraged from intermediaries (organizations
that provide training and technical
assistance to afterschool programs in their
region), direct service providers operating
multiple afterschool programs, school
districts, and other organizations. GSG
provides partners with access to ongoing
training and technical assistance,
evidence-based curricula, research and
resources, and support materials.
http://www.edequity.org/gsg/
Become a Dot Diva!
The Dot Diva Initiative is sponsored by New
Image for Computing (NIC), an initiative to
improve the image of computer science among
college-bound high school girls. Dot Divas
are the new face of computing; young women
with the passion to make a difference. They
believe in the potential of computing to
redesign the future and build a better world.
Dot Diva is looking for young women in
Computer Science as potential subjects for
profiles on their web site. Preferred
candidates are in their early 20s, and are
just starting out in their careers.
http://campus.acm.org/public/dotdiva/
AAUW Report to be Released
In early March 2010, AAUW will release its
new report Why So Few? Women in Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The
AAUW report identifies leading research that
documents the measurable impact of
stereotypes, bias and the educational
environment on the achievement and interest
of women and girls in the STEM fields. The
report sheds light on this puzzling question
and provides new ideas for what each of us
can do to more fully open the fields of
science and engineering to girls and women.
Contact an AAUW regional liaison for more
information.
http://www.aauw.org/education/ngcp/
WAMC Radio Stories Highlight Support for
Minority Students with Disabilities in
Science Education
WAMC's The Best of Our Knowledge
program aired
the fourth story in the series,
Access to Advancement: An Audio Exploration
of the National Effort to Increase the Role
of Women with Disabilities in Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. The
series, funded by the National Science
Foundation Research in Disabilities Education
Program, sheds light on the opportunities
for, and achievements of, women with
disabilities in science fields. The stories
are now available for listening
online.
http://www.womeninscience.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/
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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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