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Dear STEM Leaders,
NAPE and its partners in the Research Consortium on STEM Career Pathways will continue its survey of students around the country focused on their perception of opportunities in STEM. We invite you to consider including your students. Our ultimate objective is to stimulate a dialogue on career pathways among parents, teachers, and students.
By including your students as part of this important research project, you can help them:
- further consider their strengths, interests, and the career options open to them;
- receive targeted information from colleges, universities, career and technical schools, and other postsecondary institutions seeking to recruit students with their specific interests, talents, skill sets, and career goals;and
- gain more access to postsecondary scholarship opportunities.
Please watch your in-box during the back-to-school season for a package from the Research Consortium on STEM Career Pathways. If you want to make sure you receive this package, please send an email [email protected]!
Mimi
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Request for Proposals
NAPE has released its Request for Proposals for NSEE 2017.
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Shifting Understandings of Community College Faculty Members: Results of an Equity-Focused Professional Development Experience
Carolyn Parker, Claudia Morrell, Christopher Morrell, Lillian Chang
The purpose of this article is to present the results of a study that examined the influence of a multi-stage, equity-focused professional development program on the beliefs and understandings about issues of equity and classroom practices among 28 STEM community college faculty members.
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Why Are Most Inventors Men?
Laura Santhanam, PBS NewsHour
For 226 years, men led the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the agency that fosters American innovation and entrepreneurship. Enter Michelle Lee, the agency's first female leader.
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Women Break Barriers in Engineering and Computer Science at Some Top Colleges
Nick Anderson, The Washington Post
Women are making major gains in enrollment in engineering and computer science at some of the nation's most prominent colleges and universities, a breakthrough that shows that gender parity is possible in technology fields long dominated by men.
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The Secret to Boosting Women in IT? Men
Beth Stackpole, ComputerWorld
Male allies can open doors, broaden networks and advocate for female tech pros. Guys, ready to step up?
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Coding Diversity into Silicon Valley
Xavier Harding, Popular Science
"You can absolutely be what you can't see! That's what innovators and disruptors do," Kimberly Bryant tells me, dismantling the clichéd quote about role models for the underrepresented in STEM.
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Meet 9 Women Who Have Raised Hundreds of Millions This Year
Lisa Calhoun, Inc.
You've heard there are fewer women in STEM fields, or that fewer women lead technical companies. Well, the ones that do are raising significant capital to pursue their passions.
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SF Group Gets Girls into Tech through Music, Sound Engineering
Marissa Lang, San Francisco Chronicle
She stood on a stage that was assembled by a team of young women, who set up speakers, rigged up microphones, ran sound checks and connected computers.
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Student Creates Secret Agent Game to Encourage Young Girls in STEM
Brianna Campbell, Daily Bruin
In a game created by a UCLA student and her two sisters, 11- to 14-year-old players can combat a villain as agents for a top secret government agency. Throughout the game, players time travel and encounter women who have made contributions to STEM.
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Edie Windsor Coding Scholarship Selects 40 LGBTQ Women to Learn How to Code
Megan Rose Dickey, Tech Crunch
Lesbians Who Tech, the organization for lesbian and queer women in tech, has selected 40 people to receive scholarships to attend coding bootcamps at schools like General Assembly, Dev Bootcamp and Turing.
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Feds Spend $149,921 for LGBT Students to 'Feel Comfortable' in Engineering Class
Elizabeth Harrington, The Washington Free Beacon
Grant: Engineering programs full of straight students are 'less creative.'
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The Right Way to Hire and Retain Minority Engineers
Theresa Sullivan Barger, IEEE Spectrum
There's no shortage of talented minority engineers. Experts weigh in on how to find and keep them.
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New Project to Study Why Certain Predominantly Muslim Nations Have Higher Rates of Women Engineers Than U.S.
Jennifer DeBoer, Purdue University
New research aims to help reverse decades of failed efforts to increase the percentage of women in engineering in the United States by studying nations where the disparity is not as severe: Jordan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia.
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Science That Matters: The Importance of a Cultural Connection in Underrepresented Students' Science Pursuit
MC Jackson et al.
Recent research suggests that underrepresented minority (URM) college students, and especially first-generation URMs, may lose motivation to persist if they see science careers as unable to fulfill culturally relevant career goals.
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Latinas in STEM educates students as well as parents so they may be better positioned to support their daughters.
TECHNOLOchicas features powerful stories of Latinas from diverse backgrounds and environments who share a passion for technology and its power to change the world.
Applications for the
National Center for Women & Information Technology Award for Aspirations in Computing are open through November 7, 2016. Each National Award winner receives various prizes, cash, and a trip to Bank of America headquarters on March 3-5, 2017 for a celebration and networking with Bank of America employees.
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Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference
Houston, TX; October 19-21, 2016
This year the conference is putting a greater focus on diversity and will feature leading technical speakers, career development sessions, a poster session, a hackathon and the industry's largest career fair for women in computing.
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