As Huntington Museum of Art Director Margaret Mary Lane explained, the Community Action Grant project “Year of Women” was a serendipitous venture. Although the West Virginia museum was interested in women artists, it had few works by women in its collection. The project began as an opportunity to showcase the collection of a local woman [...]
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Project Profile: Huntington Museum of Art’s “Year of Women”
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged art, Following the Fellows, project profiles, women artists on August 28, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Project Profile: Community, Empowerment, Leadership, and Self-Awareness (CELA)
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged CELA, Community Action Grants, Community Empowerment Leadership and Self Awareness, Following the Fellows, grants and awards, KIPP, project, project profiles on May 15, 2009, | 1 Comment »
KIPP is a San Francisco Bay area public middle school established in 2003 that boasts the highest performance rate of all middle schools in San Francisco. Programs like Community, Empowerment, Leadership, and Self-Awareness (CELA) have helped KIPP excel. The goal of CELA, a 2006–08 Community Action Grant project, was to give girls “the space to [...]
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 [...]
Project Profile: 2002–03 Girl Scout Summer Day Camp
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged Community Action Grants, Educational Programs, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Girl Scouts, grants and awards, Marianne North, project profiles, STEM on October 24, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
In a recent interview, 2002–03 Community Action Grantee Marianne North talked about her work with the Girl Scout/Tech Trek Summer Day Camp in Wyoming. An active AAUW member, having served as both a branch and a state president, Marianne was familiar with the research findings that men are more likely than women to choose STEM [...]
Project Profiles: Latina Fashionista
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women & Economic Security, tagged college and career opportunities, Community Action Grants, fashion, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, fga, Following the Fellows, graduation, grants, Grants & Awards, High School, Latina, project profiles, Research and Grants on September 26, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
The first grant Roseanna Garcia, 2007–08 Community Action Grantee, ever wrote was to AAUW for her project Latina Fashionista, aimed at helping Latina youth understand college and career opportunities for minority women interested in the fashion industry. She told me she couldn’t believe it when she received the large acceptance envelope in the mail. The [...]
Project Profiles: Let’s Read Math
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged Claire Passantino, education, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, fga, grants, let's read math, mathematics, project profiles, Research and Grants, STEM, West Chester-Chester County on September 12, 2008, | 2 Comments »
One of the all-time favorite books of the Let’s Read Math program is The Greedy Triangle, in which a triangle decides he is bored with life as a triangle and wants to have another side, making him a square. Not content with just being a square he subsequently turns himself into a pentagon, a hexagon, [...]
Introducing Project Profiles
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Community Action Grants, Community Action Projects, Fellowships and Grants, fga, Grants & Awards, project profiles, Research and Grants, STEM on September 5, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
As a kid, I didn’t spend summers in front of the TV — there was never time. If I wasn’t at 4-H or church camp, I was wading through the local creek studying crayfish with a high school science group or riding horseback through the Sierra Nevada Mountains with the Girl Scouts. These experiences not [...]
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