MWM Bi-Weekly E-Newsletter: May 28, 2015
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In This Issue:
- Major Upcoming Event - Sept. 21 MWM Summit and Gala
- From our MWM Partners
- MWM State Announcements
- Women In STEM Resources
- Women in STEM News
- Sponsors
- Engage with MWM
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Million Women Mentors
Events & Calendar:
June 3
Want to Mentor?
MWM Training on New Web-Portal
June 4
Launch of Corporate
Best Practices Report:
Developing a STEM Mentoring Strategy
June 27
Ladies America:
July
Mentor Fireworks Campaign
September 21
MWM Summit and Gala
National Press Club
Washington, DC
$195.00
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Million Women Mentors
Overview
Pledge To Mentor
Women in STEM:
Realizing the Potential
This white paper will give you credible insight and facts for your use. This key document was developed with our lead technology partner TCS.
Action Guide and Toolkit
Million Women Mentors
100 Women
Leaders in STEM
In celebration of women role models in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), STEMconnector? published in hard copy and online its inaugural
Access HERE
100 Diverse Corporate Leaders in STEM
Access HERE
9 Corporations Optimizing STEM Talent Through Mentoring
AAUW Report Solving the Equation: Women in Technology and Engineering
Office of Science and
Technology Policy
Women in STEM: Fact sheets & Reports
Download
HERE
NUDC: Mentoring Myths Decoded
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Thank you Sponsors as of April 1, 2015
Platinum:
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Million Women Mentors is excited to announce our inaugural MWM Summit and Gala on September 21, 2015 in Washington, DC. This event will bring together major corporations, partners, city and state leadership teams for a day of learning and sharing. For more information or to register, please visit:
For information regarding sponsorship or partnership opportunities, please email:
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Are you a mentor in the workplace? Or, have you benefited from the support of a more experienced professional in a chosen field? As BP America joins the Million Women Mentors initiative, meet two engineers who play their part in encouraging others to explore careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). Click here to learn more about two key role models and mentors at BP America.
I found that engineering was math, it was language, it was physics and so much more. There was an element of creativity to it and opportunities to travel abroad, which interested me as well.
It was so rewarding. Nothing feels better than mentoring somebody and seeing them achieve what they set out to do. Just playing a small part in their success is extremely gratifying.
By: Kirsten Weeks, Director of Global Community Relations, Cisco
Over the course of the next 17 months, every presidential candidate, left, right, and center, will make the case that our nation needs to make it a national imperative to address the skills gap crisis in STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. They will point out that by 2018, our nation will have 1.2 million, or 1.8 million, or 2.4 million unfilled jobs requiring technical skills. And they will argue, rightly of course, that we're falling behind China, India and Singapore in preparing our students for the new digital workforce. I wouldn't be surprised if one of them likened this to the race to put a man on the Moon. Read more
here.
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State Announcements 
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Many states have active engagement for MWM. We are pleased to feature the success of one of these states - IOWA! The enthusiasm for mentoring young women in STEM through MWM-IA has continued to grow under the leadership of Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds and the Executive Council. They have had success this first year in getting corporations to pledge mentors, and now using the MWM portal to make it even easier for mentors to find a mentoring opportunity. MWM-IA is working with three key audiences: 1) Local STEM hubs and non-profits, 2) Iowa 2- and 4- year colleges who offer specific programming in STEM fields by listing their programs with MWM-IA, and 3) Professional organizations in STEM fields. Read more here.
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| The Value of a High School Internship: One Young Woman's Experience
By: Candice Berner
The first time I met Caroline, I loved her! My Women in Leadership class came and sp
oke with her one day about being a woman leader and advice she would give about being a woman in the workforce. Caroline wanted us to ask her question
s that we were afraid to ask any other woman leader. She answered our questions very honestly and didn't sugar coat anything. Everything she was saying was so inspiring. Right then and there, I knew I wanted to do my senior project with her! I knew I could learn a lot from her. I mentioned doing a month internship for the month of May. Sh
e told me to send her a follow up email and she would send me some questions that she wanted me to answer. Lesson #1: When seeking a job opportunity, follow up. Read more here.
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Global Women in STEM News
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The Science Gallery Dublin and Women in Technology and Science (WITS) will fight the good fight for women in STEM on Wikipedia on 4 June with an edit-a-thon for Ireland's female STEM pioneers. The effort is part of WITS' campaign to 'stem the tide' in articles that appear about women in science on the giant web encyclopedia, which they say shows a gender bias against them compared with the treatment of men in identical fields.
Research earlier this year as part of a paper entitled It's a Man's Wikipedia? Assessing Gender Inequality in an Online Encyclopaedia showed that, in many cases, the female scientists had their gender specifically referenced, such as 'lady' or 'woman', while in many cases the males' gender was not mentioned.
Now, according to WITS' post about the upcoming edit-a-thon, the group are calling on any STEM concious editors to take part in the event on 4 June between 4 pm and 8 pm to not only fix existing Wikipedia pages of Irish women in STEM, but also add pages about women who haven't been represented yet. Read more here.
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Women in Technology International (WITI) today announced the five 2015 Women in Technology Hall of Fame award recipients. The 2015 recipients are: Dr. Cheemin Bo-Linn, CEO of Peritus Partners; Nichelle Nichols, Actress, Singer and Voice Artist; Pam Parisian, Chief Information Officer of AT&T; Sheryl Root, Software Management Consulting Professor at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley; and Marier Wieck, General Manager of Middleware, a division of IBM. Read more
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When it comes to careers, it's not always a man's world. In fact, in some industries, it's quite the opposite. A new report from job search portal
CareerCast.com has identified the best jobs for women in 2015. While some of the fields identified aren't surprising -- public relations, event planning, and human resources -- other's aren't so obvious. For example, opportunities for women in sTEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and health care are on the rise as well. Read more
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STEM Expert Day Martin, CEO of Stand Steady, a multi-million dollar standing desk manufacturer, and e-commerce business, adds a grassroots view to bringing STEM education to girls in response to the NY Times "
Making Computer Science More Inviting: A Look at What Works," by Claire Cain Miller. Read more and watch the video
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Ariel Ash-shakoor and Alexis Pena have a lot in common. Both are pursuing bioengineering degrees at Syracuse University. Both can remember the specific moments where they began falling in love with math and science. Both know what it means to be a women of color pursuing a degree in STEM. Read more and watch video
here.
I wanted to help a large amount of people. Being in engineering, being able to make solutions for these problems in a medical application is really perfect and really what I wanted to do, so bioengineering kind of fit.
Growing up I wanted to be Peter Parker. From his sense of responsibility to his sarcastic wit, I wanted to be just like him. Spider-Man (aka Peter Parker), in the comic books, was also a scientist. He was a biophysics major in college and invented many of his own web shooters, which allowed him to swing across skyscrapers.
And while Peter Parker was my personal hero, "Engineers Assemble!" comes from another superhero: Captain America shouts this phrase to rally the Avengers. I'm using it here to illustrate how science fiction and superheroes drew me to the worlf od science and to ultimately become an engineer. Today, the engineering work force is experiencing a drought of young engineers. The average engineer's age is 51 and the industry is facing a dearth of up-and-comers to replace them...Recently CNET published an article about young girls and computer science programming. While 74% of middle-school girls are interested in STEM, only 0.3 percent of high-school girls choose computer science as a major. Read more
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Daniela Jorge is Vice President of AT&T's Digital Design & User Experience (UX) organization. Her team creates mobile and online user
experiences
that connect millions of people with the latest technologies every day.
People often ask what inspired me to pursue a career in STEM. I tell them it's a lifetime of inspiration. For starters, I've always enjoyed art and creating things. I've always been very analytical and a good problem solver. Both of my parents were supportive and successful in their careers. I never thought anything was off-limits.
When I was in the eighth grade, my dad introduced me to industrial design. It hooked me. I loved the idea of designing products that people use every day and I loved computers and creating a digital space. Then, I met the Internet and all it coalesced. The Internet gave me the tools to create digital experiences that touch millions of people. Read more
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Science, technology, engineering and math have long been male-dominated fields. Though barriers still exist, female scientists are making inroads into the old boys' club more than ever before. As more women assume positions of power in the STEM world, scientists hope more women may be encouraged to pursue STEM careers of their own.
"There were very few senior women ahead on the path, and mentoring opportunities were rare, but just knowing those few women were successes gave me hope," Dr. Megan Urry, professor of physics and astronomy at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., told The Huffington Post about her own experience as a young scientist.
"Although people may be tired of the word 'role model' the fact is, role models are incredibly important."
Read more
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Million Women Mentors will support the engagement of STEM professionals (male and female) to serve as mentors for girls and women middle school through careers, allowing them to persist and succeed in STEM programs and careers. MWM is an initiative of STEMconnector in collaboration with 30 corporate sponsors, 60 partners and nearly 30 state leadership teams.
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