Sitting next to the first lady at the State of the Union address tonight will be a model student in the sciences and engineering. Li Boynton is a semifinalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search Award, and the White House is hoping “other students will look at what she has done and will be [...]
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Are Women to Blame for Girls’ Math Anxiety?
Posted in Educational Programs, S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, AAUW research, Educate to Innovate initiative, GEMS, girls in math, girls in science, girls in tech, Intel Science Talent Search Award, International Science and Engineering Fair, let's read math, Li Boynton, National Girls Collaborative Project, National Lab Day, NCWIT's Gotta Have IT, NGCP, SOTU, State of the Union, Techbridge's Tool Kit for Role Models, women in engineering, women in math, women in science, women in tech on January 27, 2010, | 3 Comments »
STEM and Women’s Economic Security
Posted in S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, Women & Economic Security, tagged COESE, job loss, National Girls Collaborative Project, National Science Founcation, NGCP, pay equity, STEM, unemployment rate on July 2, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Today, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that another 467,000 jobs were lost in June 2009, and the unemployment rate has risen to 9.5 percent. The worst of it may be behind us, but the economic recession is clearly still with us. AAUW works on a number of fronts to help improve the U.S. economy, [...]
Women in Engineering
Posted in S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, tagged engineering, National Girls Collaborative Project, NGCP, science, STEM, WEPAN on June 22, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
This past week marked my first WEPAN conference. Like AAUW, the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) was started by a group of women searching for support in their professional careers. The organization is dedicated to improving the climate for and success of all women in engineering. Now celebrating its 20th birthday, WEPAN has grown [...]
The Digital Ceiling
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged blogher, Digial Ceiling, Fem2.0, GEMS, glass ceiling, national girls, National Girls Collaborative Project, NGCP, STEM, technonogy, TeleSummit, Women Who Tech on May 13, 2009, | 2 Comments »
When your computer breaks, they first thing you do is go call the tech guys, right? As one of the women in tech out there, I am getting tired of the sexist stereotypes about the gender of technology professionals. We are not all male! While there have been notable women in technology from the beginning, [...]
Members Go “Green” for Girls in STEM
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Earth Day, Florida, girls, green homes, membership, National Girls Collaborative Project, NGCP, Regional Liaisons, STEM on April 22, 2009, | 1 Comment »
Last weekend at the AAUW of Florida state convention in Gainesville, more than 30 AAUW women built green homes with nontraditional materials. Graham crackers with frosting mortar formed the main structure, green sprinkles stood in for native plants on a green roof, and a stack of small marshmallows on a toothpick represented a cistern to [...]
Honoring AAUW Members
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, lobby corps, National Volunteer Week, NGCP on April 21, 2009, | 10 Comments »
As President Obama gets ready to sign the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act today, we thought to take a moment and honor National Volunteer Week (April 19–25, 2009), signed into existence in 1974 by President Richard Nixon and re-proclaimed by every president since then. A standing ovation goes to our very own AAUW members, [...]
Project Profile: GEMS
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, tagged education, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Grants & Awards, National Girls Collaborative Project, NGCP, project profiles, STEM, William Wirt Middle School on April 20, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
I hadn’t been in a school setting since saying goodbye to the American School of Campinas and my teaching career last June. That’s one reason I was so excited to visit William Wirt Middle School and the 2006–07 Community Action Grant program, Girls Excelling in Math and Science (GEMS). This STEM enrichment program focuses on [...]
Where Are All the Women?
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged engineering, Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, National Girls Collaborative Project, NGCP, STEM, Where the Girls Are on February 19, 2009, | 3 Comments »
I used to be an engineer. For eight years, I designed satellites. The work was engrossing at times, and I loved designing with CAD (Computer Aided Design). It was like getting paid to play a video game. But the more time I spent working as an engineer, the more interested I became in a problem [...]
The Question For Today
Posted in Educational Programs, The AAUW Community, tagged business, National Girls Collaborative Project, NGCP, STEM on February 10, 2009, | 1 Comment »
What is the five syllable word for “w-o-r-k-i-n-g t-o-g-e-t-h-e-r?” Easy answer, you say? Of course. It’s collaboration. It’s something women — and women’s organizations — are known for. We are experts at it. AAUW’s most recent initiative in collaboration is the National Girls Collaborative Project. And collaboration works, right? Yes, it does. Every one of [...]
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