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March is Women's History Month!
STEM-tastic: Getting Girls Excited about
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math with SciGirls!,
University of New Orleans, March 21, 2015, 8:30 am-4:00 pm
National Society of Black Engineers
Convention, Anaheim, CA, March 25-29, 2015
Live Stream of AAUW's Solving the Equation Launch,
March 26, 2015, 2:00-3:30 pm
National Women in Cybersecurity Conference,
Atlanta, GA, March 27-28, 2015
NAPE Annual Professional Development Institute,
Alexandria, VA, April 21-23, 2015
Authentic Engineering: Representing and
Emphasizing the E in STEM, Seattle, WA, June 13, 2015
Center for STEM Education for Girls STEM Think Tank and
Conference
Nashville, TN, July 8-10, 2015
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Do you see your students in future
STEM careers? There are nothing but opportunities for those students
thinking about careers in STEM. The field continues to shift, just as
student perceptions do. That is why NAPE, Destination Imagination,
National Girls Collaborative, and Educational Research Center of
America (ERCA) are collaborating on a research project focused on
high school students' perceptions of STEM careers.
By including your students as part of this important research
project, you can help them:
- further consider
their strengths, interests, and the career options open to them;
- receive targeted
information from colleges, universities, career and technical
schools, and other postsecondary institutions seeking to recruit
students with their specific interests, talents, skill sets, and
career goals; and
- gain more access to
postsecondary scholarship opportunities.
The window to
participate in this survey is limited, though. In early March,
packages containing additional information and the surveys will be
mailed to high school educators. If you do not receive a packet by
then, then please contact ERCA as soon as possible to ensure your
students are included.
Later this year, ERCA will share a summary of student perceptions to
help students, families, teachers, and guidance counselors better
understand students' perspectives on the topic and engage in
meaningful conversations about career and postsecondary educational
opportunities.
If you want to make sure you receive this package, please send your
name, high school name, and complete school mailing address to info@studentresearch.org
with "STEM Career Survey" in the subject line to make sure
you are on the list!
For equity, access, and diversity,
Mimi
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Many Women Still Hesitant to Enter
STEM Fields
Georgiana Kotarski, Nooga.com
"We're going the wrong
direction," engineer Sheila Boyington said, discussing efforts
to get more girls interested in entering STEM. "Studies show
about 23% were going for science and engineering in 2004, and in
2014, it's down to 18%." Read
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STEM Workforce No More Diverse Than 14
Years Ago
Allie Bidwell, U.S. News & World
Report
The STEM workforce in the U.S. has not
changed its demographic makeup since 2001, according to Change the
Equation, a coalition of major corporations that promotes STEM.
"I had hoped that after all these years we would have made more
progress, because I see so much activity," said Velma Deleveaux
of Booz Allen Hamilton. Read More
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Why Are Women Leaving the Tech
Industry in Droves?
Tracey Lien, Los Angeles Times
"There are a lot of things that
piled up over the years," Means said. "I didn't know how to
move forward. There was a lot I had to put up with in the culture of
tech. It just didn't seem worth it." Read More >>
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Report: No Leaky Pipeline for Women in
STEM
Allie Bidwell, U.S. News & World
Report
Gender gaps in persistence have
closed, although men still outnumber women overall. Read More >>
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Inequity Persists in STEM Education
for Students of Color, Women
Lewis Diuguid, The Kansas City Star
Minorities' poor access to STEM makes
it a critical civil rights concern, says a new report,
"Advancing Equity through More and Better STEM Learning." Read More
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A Future Segregated by Science?
Charles M. Blow, The New York Times
Will our future be highly delineated
by who does and who doesn't have a science education (and the
resulting higher salary), making for even more entrenched economic
inequality by race and gender? Read More >>
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Study Finds Teacher Bias Discourages
Girls from STEM Courses and Careers
Leslie Corbly, Deseret News
A recent study from the National
Bureau of Economic Research found that elementary school was a
crucial time in the development of young girls. The study found biases
in teachers made them less likely to encourage young girls to pursue
STEM subjects. Read More >>
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Diversity: Tech Companies Need New
Strategies
Joelle Emerson, USA Today
Growing transparency around workforce
demographics and high-profile harassment and discrimination lawsuits
have made "diversity in tech" a topic that's impossible to
ignore. The question now is whether tech companies will actually do
what it takes to become more diverse. Read More >>
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Study: Here's How to Beat the
Stereotypes That Keep Women Out of Computer Science
This special series focuses on
important community issues, innovative solutions to societal
challenges, and people and nonprofit groups making an impact through
technology. Read More >>
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Facebook, LinkedIn Join to Help Women
in Tech
In an exclusive joint interview,
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and LinkedIn CEO Jeffrey Weiner said
they're launching mentoring and support programs at colleges to get
more women involved in studying technology in general, but also as
future employees for their companies. Read More >>
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Worldwide Crowdsourcing Competition
Seeks Ideas for TV Series with a Female Engineer Lead
"The Next MacGyver" global
contest seeks new TV show about female engineers. Read More >>
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Why It's Not Enough to Measure STEM
Outcomes
Meris Stansbury, eCampus News
New data reveals it's just as
important to measure behavior and engagement in different STEM fields
as it is to measure outcomes. Read More
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Can Blind Interviews Finally Solve
Tech's Diversity Hiring Problem?
Jane Porter, Fast Company
The solution to unbiased hiring could
be to literally turn your back on job candidates. Read More
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The Inventor Who May Kill the Power
Cord
Marco della Cava, USA Today
Meredith Perry wants us all to commute
in small blimps and communicate via holograms you can touch.
Admittedly both ideas are a bit tricky to pull off, so she's starting
with what she considers a simpler project: charging electronic
devices over thin air. Read More
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Anya Pogharian Invents $500 Dialysis
Machine with At-Home Potential
Teenage inventor creates dialysis
machine that could change how care is delivered. Read More
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