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NAPE introduces its new toolkit, Explore
Nontraditional Careers. Learn more and watch the rollout
webinar on the NAPE
website.
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Authentic
Engineering: Representing and Emphasizing the E in STEM,
Seattle, WA, June 13, 2015
Women
& Minorities in Technology, Seattle, WA, June
16, 2015
Center for STEM Education for Girls STEM
Think Tank and Conference
Nashville, TN, July 8-10, 2015
MWM
Summit and Gala, Washington, DC, September 21,
2015
National
Summit for Educational Equity, Alexandria, VA,
April 12-14, 2016
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I am pleased to announce that NAPE has
released its new toolkit Explore
Nontraditional Careers, a transformational toolkit for
educators and counselors across the CTE and STEM pipeline. Learn
more, watch the rollout webinar, and order the toolkit on the NAPE toolkit
webpage. You can order NAPE's other products--Explore
STEM Careers toolkit, kudos
cards, and infographics--as
well as professional
development on the NAPE website.
Meagan Pollock, Ben Williams, and I are currently attending the
National Science Foundation Advanced
Technological Education annual meeting. During a
poster session, we will present an update about the STEM Equity
Pipeline in its second round of funding. View the calendar on the NAPE
homepage to see where NAPE staff and consultants
are providing professional development and technical assistance and
attending national conferences throughout the year.
For equity, access, and diversity,
Mimi
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College Board Launches STEM
'Credential' Initiative
Alan Newhauser, US News & World
Report
College- and career-bound students can
now gain official recognition for studying STEM. Read
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Revisiting the STEM Workforce
This report offers insights about
longstanding workforce debates and seeks to catalyze constructive
policy discussions about this critical and dynamic component of the
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STEM Gender Stereotypes Common Across
the World
Allie Bidwell, US News & World
Report
The U.S. ranks in the middle when it
comes to linking men to science more than women. Read More >>
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From Ada to Brill: Why Have We Always
Dissed Women in Tech?
Silicon Valley faces tough questions
about how it treats women. But the problem isn't just for modern-day
women--it goes back at least 200 years. Read
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It's Not Women Who Are the Problem in
Tech Land
Silicon Valley's male-dominated
culture could cost the technology industry the thing it values most:
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African-American Men: The Other STEM
Minority
Allie Bidwell, US News & World
Report
African-American men are one of the
only minority groups not making progress in STEM. Read More >>
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Study Interviews 60 Women of Color in
STEM
Caroline Siede, Boing Boing
All 60 women of color, including
Latinas, Asian-Americans, and black women, reported experiencing
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Female Scientists Told to Get a Man to
Help Them With Their Paper
This just in from the land of great
sexism: two female scientists had a manuscript rejected by a
peer-reviewed journal because they didn't ask a man for help. Read More >>
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Rediscovering the Lost Role Models for
Girls Who Want to Be Scientists
Rachel Swabay, Fast Company
Women have made enormous contributions
to STEM fields for centuries. But you might be hard pressed to know
that from our regular histories. A new book gives these women their
just credit. Read
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D. Tam and N. Statt, CNet
The best way to recruit more women
into tech? Convince them when they're young that tech is cool. Read
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Girls Design Apps to Solve Real-World
Issues
Carolyn Abate, Yahoo! News
Girls taking part in the Technovation
program are learning to create mobile applications that can help
solve community issues. Read
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Exclusive: Google Raising Stakes on
Diversity
The Internet giant is digging into its
mountains of cash and tapping some of the world's smartest minds to
take on another serious and elusive challenge: cracking the code on
the lack of diversity in the technology industry. Read
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Google I/O Attracts More Women
For the first time this year, Google
created an invitation-only online network for women to connect before
and after I/O. Read
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GoDaddy Isn't the Company You Think It
Is
In April, the Anita Borg Institute For
Women and Technology rated the company as one of the top workplaces
for women technologists, alongside Apple and Google. Read
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Many Community College Grads Continue
to Out-Earn B.A. Holders a Decade After Graduation
Jill Barshay, The Hechinger Report
The average salary in Texas for a
mechanical engineering certificate is $116,000. Read
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The Federal Government Needs a 'Master
Plan' for Getting More Cyber Talent into Government
The Obama administration needs to
formally declare a "critical need" for cybersecurity talent
in government and allow all agencies to fast-track the often sluggish
federal hiring process when recruiting for a broad range of cyber
positions. Read
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