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Resources
The CODE2040
Fellows Program matches high performing black and
Latino undergraduate and graduate coders and software engineering
students with Silicon Valley start-ups for summer internships.
Citizen
Schools, a nonprofit that partners with middle
schools to lengthen school days for children in low-income
communities, is launching a new national Catalyst initiative aimed at
connecting thousands of students with local STEM professionals.
The Verizon
Innovative App Challenge provides the opportunity
for middle school and high school students to use their STEM
knowledge, their ingenuity, and their creativity to come up with an
original mobile app concept that incorporates STEM and addresses a
need or problem in their school or community.
In preparation for an upcoming book series, Futures
Inspired is conducting research about the career
journeys of a diverse, multinational group of women in the workforce.
It welcomes all women age 20-120 to participate in this research
survey until February 1, 2013.
The Career
Readiness Partner Council is a broad-based coalition
of education, policy, business and philanthropic organizations that
strives to forward a more comprehensive vision for what it means to
be career ready.
10
Reasons Women Struggle in STEM from Teaching Degree
Video: Teaching
for the Future: Steering Girls to Science from USA
Today
NCWIT Case Study: How Do
You Introduce Computing in an Engaging Way? Teaching Programming and
Language Concepts Using LEGOs®
Brain
Pop Espanol provides activities and lessons in a
variety of disciplines, including STEM.
Entertainment
Software Association Foundation has awarded 30
scholarships to women and minority students aspiring to become game
developers.
Global Gender Gap Report 2012: The
Best And Worst Countries for Women from The
Huffington Post
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Funded by a grant from the
National Science Foundation,
GSE/EXT: STEM Equity Pipeline Project,
Grant No. HRD-0734056 and Grant No. DUE-1104163
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PIPELINE NEWS
Dear STEM Leaders,
Please Save the Date! The 2013
Professional Development Institute,
"Igniting Innovation: Access, Equity, and Diversity," is
scheduled for April 15-18, 2013, in Arlington, VA. I'd like to
thank Lockheed
Martin for serving as our platinum sponsor. Our PDI
webpage provides a tentative agenda and
sponsorship and advertising information. Hotel information,
registration, and the Call for Proposals are forthcoming. Stay
tuned!
Congratulations to Judith D'Amico, Senior Director of Engagement
with Project Lead The Way and NAPE Education Foundation Board
Member, for being honored by the California STEM Learning Network
as a Leading
Woman in STEM!
One of our contacts with the California State Team informed me that
the CA Perkins Joint Special Populations Advisory Committee (JSPAC)
is offering free
Nontraditional and Special Populations Workshops.
JSPAC has integrated the Program
Improvement Process for Equity (PIPE) into its
special populations and nontraditional professional development and
technical assistance, and women in STEM is a subset of the
nontraditional work. Learn more about how NAPE can assist you or
your state and local organization through its professional
development and technical
assistance services.
Finally, on behalf of the NAPE national staff, Executive Committee,
and Education Foundation Board, I'd like to say that our
thoughts remain with all the people who have been affected by
and are working to recover from Hurricane Sandy.
For access, equity, and diversity,
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PUBLICATIONS
Despite Efforts to
Close Gender Gaps, Some Disciplines Remain Lopsided Katherine
Mangan, Chronicle of Higher Education
Engineering and teaching are among the most lopsided disciplines in
academe's gender split. In 2010, women received 80 percent of the
undergraduate degrees awarded in education, the U.S. Education
Department reports. And they earned 77 percent of the master's and
67 percent of the doctoral degrees in that field. In engineering,
by contrast, women earned just 18 percent of undergraduate, 22
percent of master's, and 23 percent of doctoral degrees. Read
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Why STEM Fields Still Don't Draw More Women Robin
N. Coger, Chronicle of Higher Education
There have been many efforts in recent years to draw more women
into STEM fields. While women have made gains, they are still far
less likely than men to major in such fields, especially
engineering and computer science. Why? The author asked a group of
scholars and experts to respond. Read
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Scholarly Publishing's Gender Gap Robin
Wilson, Chronicle of Higher Education
When Jennifer Jacquet first visited Carl T. Bergstrom's evolutionary-biology
lab at the University of Washington last year, she was surrounded
by men. "The lab is like visiting a fraternity," says Ms.
Jacquet, who completed her postdoc at the University of British
Columbia. Perhaps being the only woman in the lab prompted Ms.
Jacquet's answer when Mr. Bergstrom asked her what should be done
with a remarkable new trove of data--nearly 8 million scholarly
articles that went back to Newton's time. To her, the answer was
clear: What did the articles and their authors show about gender
differences in publishing? Were women and men equal in this
fundamental coin of the academic realm, a currency that buys
tenure, promotions, and career success? Read
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Why Bias Holds Women Back Meg Urry, CNN
Evidence shows that established scientists at top research
universities -- those choosing and training the next generation of
STEM experts -- unconsciously rate budding female scientists lower
than men with identical credentials. They judge women less capable,
less worthy of hiring and less deserving of mentoring. And they
propose starting salaries that are on average 14% higher for men
than for women. Read
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Women And STEM Careers: How Microsoft Is Building A
Bridge To Future Innovation -- One Girl at a Time Lisa
Quast, Forbes
With an eye on the long-term needs of the IT industry, Microsoft is
developing innovative approaches to get girls to pursue an
education and careers in technology. For example, the company
sponsors DigiGirlz High Tech Camp, which offers teenage girls a
three-day program of hands-on learning, tours of high-tech
facilities and meetings with leaders in the field. Read
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Commentary: Keeping the 'T' in STEM Laura
Reasoner Jones, Washington Post
Teaching girls about computer programming and the creative side of
technology can help boost their confidence and fill a critical need
for more diversity in IT fields, writes Laura Reasoner Jones, a
technology specialist with Fairfax County Public Schools in
Virginia. Jones encourages girls to get involved in school classes
and organizations centered on technology and to investigate online
resources that teach programming and other skills. Read
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Science Is a Girl Thing Annie
Forsberg, Star Tribune
Helping girls take an interest in science starts with developing
confidence in using the scientific method, writes Annie Forsberg, a
reliability engineer at the Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend
refinery in Rosemount, Minn. One key is to explain that an
experiment failure is fine if the scientist understands why it
failed. In addition, girls may be more interested in science if
they understand that teamwork and cooperation often are part of
scientific work. Read
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Presentation High Senior Recruits Female NASA
Scientists to Promote STEM Education Mike
Cassidy, Mercury News
It's not every day that you assemble a panel of four NASA
scientists with 10 college degrees among them, including the lead
inventor of something called the phenolic impregnated carbon
ablator, for a chat with 50 high school students in the school
library. But Deepika Bodapati figured it would be worth the effort
to bring the all-woman panel to her all-girl high school as part of
her crusade to conquer the reluctance of students, especially girls
and low-income kids, to pursue classes and careers in STEM. Read
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Sheryl Sandberg Gives Important Advice To Women Who
Are Considering Careers in Tech Alyson
Shontell, San Francisco Chronicle
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, recently gave young
women some very valuable career advice on Quora. "I think the
most important advice for girls or women who want to consider
a career in tech is really the same advice for all women and
girls anywhere - that the key thing is to believe in your own
abilities," she says. Read
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How to Get Girls Psyched About Computer Science Beth Kowitt, CNN
One of the recurring topics at this year's Most Powerful Women
Summit revolved around how to get more young women interested in
science, technology, engineering, and math. The most promising case
study on how to do it came from Maria Klawe, president of Harvey
Mudd College. Read
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Women Flock to Startups, Trail in Computer Science Ari
Levy and Willow Bay, Bloomberg Business Week
Women in technology say they have plenty of opportunities to start
Web-based companies and raise capital, though there are still too
few of them studying computer science and taking engineering roles.
That's the message from a group of female executives on "Women
to Watch," which aired yesterday on Bloomberg Television.
"For the first time, I actually see male co-founders and male
co-founding teams who are explicitly looking to bring women into
the executive team or the founding team," said Ranzetta, whose
investments include Imperva Inc. (IMPV) and Trulia Inc. She said
companies are saying, "'You know, two-thirds of my users, my
most valuable users, are women. We've got to get a woman into the
boardroom here, right?'" Read
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Nonprofit ScriptEd NYC Teaches Coding to
Underprivileged Students Olivia B. Waxman, Time
Disadvantaged students in New York City are being taught lessons in
computer science by the new nonprofit ScriptEd NYC. The goal,
founders say, is to help close the "digital divide" and
prepare students for the workplace. Read
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Growing More Black Science and Math Majors Alfonzo
Porter, Washington Post
American colleges and universities are poised to produce about 3
million STEM majors over the next decade. But according to a 2012
report by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology, the demand will far outstrip the supply for these coveted
graduates. In order to fulfill the nation's requirements, an
estimated 1 million more STEM majors will be needed to fill future
high-tech job openings. African American students are on the brink
of missing out on these prime opportunities. Read
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My View: Help Young Latinos Succeed in STEM Fields Lorelle
Espinosa, CNN
The recent Mars landing of NASA's rover Curiosity - and the
stunning images it is sending back from the Red Planet - will
hopefully inspire a generation of students entering college this
fall to pursue an education in science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics (STEM). Yet for many students - particularly
Latinos - those very valuable STEM degrees remain out of reach,
practically ensuring that America's growth in these important
fields is stifled. Read
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