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MAY
MWM NEWSLETTER
Please
check out below
for what's going on in MWM!
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BEST PRACTICE: State Movements and Their Newsletters!
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Texas and Kentucky
provide updates for their states through monthly newsletters.
Pictured
above
are examples of these monthly newsletters that include ways to get involved as well as what is going on in their state and when. To take a closer look please click on the pictures, kudos Texas and Kentucky!
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STEMconnector and Million Women Mentors presented on women, diversity and technology at the Kansas City Federal Reserve on
April 16, 2018
. STEMconnector and MWM Founder & Chairwoman,
Edie Fraser
,
met with respected leaders such as president, Esther George. Other officers and directors who participated included Andrea Hendricks, AVP of HR and Deputy Director of Diversity and Inclusion, who leads the Bank's Community Development and Strategic Engagement program. Andrea set the stage for a morning presentation to managers, lunch with the officers and afternoon presentation to the community. From gender, diversity, small business, workforce, recruitment and suppliers, KC Fed is leading the way. 72% of the leadership roles are women and 30% of the entire staff are in technology. The hiring rate for women increased from 40.4% in 2017 as a five-year high. The hiring rate for minorities was 21.7%. Participation in the Bank’s mentorship program reached about 31% of the total workforce. A special recognition to KS/MO Million Women Mentors leaders,
Brian Crouse
, VP, Education, MO Chamber, and
Martha McCabe
, Director KS STEM Alliance for their leadership.
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New Web and Software Development Training Initiative Will Prepare Participants for In-Demand Technology Positions
Technology and business services company and MWM Sponsor,
Cognizant
and digital training and talent acquisition company
General Assembly
have announced a new digital engineering education program as part of Cognizant’s global effort to address a growing digital skills gap and projected worldwide shortage of qualified technology workers. The web and software education program, open for anyone to apply and provided at no cost to participants, launches this month at multiple General Assembly campuses in the United States.
This is the latest education initiative Cognizant has created to help meet increasing demand for technology professionals in the global digital economy. Cognizant is one of the world’s largest technology employers with approximately 260,000 employees globally at year-end 2017. The company hired over 6,000 workers in the U.S. alone last year, and plans to add at least 25,000 more individuals across the country over the next five years. The company also recently announced it is contributing $100 million to a new non-profit foundation focused on U.S. STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education. For more information please click
here.
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The winners of the
GirlsGoCyberStart
competition, a series of innovative cybersecurity training challenges meant to inspire the next generation of cybersecurity professionals and identify talented youth in Maryland, met with Labor Secretary Kelly M. Schulz on
Friday, March 30th
, at a reception in Annapolis, MD. The event acknowledged the hard work and skill the students demonstrated during the competition.
6,650 high school girls from 17 states and territories participated in the competition. Of the top 100 teams overall, Maryland took four of the top five positions, and 15 of the top 100, proving the strength of Maryland’s future cybersecurity workforce. “Our administration is committed to ensuring our students have access to the essential resources they need to pursue and persist in STEM fields,” said Maryland Governor Larry Hogan. For more information please click
here.
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Members of
MWM-MN
were invited to participate in a local career fair that took place at Burnsville High School on
Friday, April 13th
. They were able to showcase the opportunities for women in STEM as well as make connections with companies like
Target
, UTC Aerospace Systems,
Braun Intertec, The
Mayo Clinic
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Educators from around Arkansas recommended high-achieving girls to attend a
Girls of Promise Conference
on April 12-13 for two days of activities focused on the importance of higher education and the payoff of hard work (
and fun
). Girls met others like themselves and realize it’s okay to be a bright, motivated person with big dreams. They also meet and learn from women with amazing careers such as scientists, welders, physicians, computer systems engineers, and coders. Our chapter of MWM was present and all around the girls had a really good day. This effort is led by the Women's Foundation of AR who leads the
MWM-AR
efforts. To get more information about Girls of Promise Conference please click
here.
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On Wednesday
April 4th,
MWM-DC chair
Marlena Jones
shared her capstone project
'Bringing Mentors to DC!'
in front of members of the DC STEM Network. The DC STEM Network unites community partners to help inspire and prepare all DC youth to succeed, lead and innovate in STEM fields and beyond. The Network’s partners identify common measures for high-quality STEM and map the STEM landscape to increase access, awareness, interest and engagement in STEM so that all students can graduate and enter the workforce STEM-literate. As one of the newest States' efforts this is a great way to start. Way to go DC!
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MWM-CANADA Now on the MWM Website
The MWM-Canada team has now created their own section of the MWM website to highlight the growing number of activities they are conducting! Check out five recent events on the
MWM-CAN news page
!
In the near future we will be enhancing the MWM website to better serve the Canadian community by allowing entry of Canadian addresses to enable local mentoring opportunity searches.
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WHAT'S GOING ON WITH MWM?
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Lt. Governor of Arkansas Tim Griffin,
MWM National Lt. Governors Chair
, recently met with MWMNational States Chair of MWM,
Sheila Boyington
, President of Learning Blade in Arkansas. The Lt. Governor continues to lead events and speak on the importance of girls and women in STEM and champion STEM for all in the state and nationally.
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2018 Annual MWM Gala & Summit
Please
save the date
on your calendar, we will be providing more information as we get closer but our Annual Gala will take place
October 25
in Washington DC and the Summit will occur the following day,
October 26
, also in Washington DC. We hope you can attend!
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Women In Insurance Initiative Moves Full Steam Ahead!
Since the moment of its inception, the MWM Women in Insurance Initiative is making a huge impact on the Insurance community. The Initiative gives industry leaders the perfect avenue to share profiles and commitments from their companies as well as, what they are doing to advance women to support the recruitment and retention. The goal of the Initiative is to take many informal programs and formalize initiatives, data and results from mentorship, and share what it means with the collective industry. Members on the April Advisory Call included: ACORD, QBE, State Farm, Prudential, Arthur J Gallagher and MEMIC. The next meeting of the Initiative will be
June 26th
in New York City.
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Upworthy Recognizes MWM!
Marvel's 'Black Panther' character Shuri is making STEM careers cool again! MWM was featured on a list of 5 'bad-ass stem programs' that women and girls should participate in that will help making their dreams of becoming a tech savvy 'super-hero' a reality. To read the article please click
here!
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Tuck Executive Education Scholarship Mentees Chosen
Wells Fargo
is happy to announce they have selected
7 mentees,
who are part of the MWM Entrepreneurship Initiative, to receive the Tuck Executive Education Scholarship, the winners are:
- Alka Dhillon, Technalink
- Peggy Gionta, Partner’s Consulting
- Theresa Harrison, George Street Services
- Rashi Khosla, Mars Solutions Group
- Meena Krishnan, Inoventures, LLC
- Tamara Nall, TLN Worldwide Enterprises, The Leading Niche
- Prema Patil, Tanson Corporation
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Women in STEM Career Summit MWM-PA and MWM-DE
The inaugural
Women in STEM Career Summit
will be held on
June 8
in Philadelphia, PA. This high value professional development conference is designed to encourage, support and inspire women involved in all aspects of STEM. The summit will feature inspiring women leaders sharing their journeys along with interactive, skill-building workshops on valuable topics including: exploring and expanding STEM career options, building strategic networks and the power of mentoring relationships, communicating to be heard: strategies and skills for women in STEM, and building confidence through design thinking.
Up to 200 women professionals in STEM fields from business, industry, government and academics are expected to attend for a full day of learning and connecting with their peers.The
2018 Women in STEM Career Summit
is being organized by MWM-PA Co-Chair
Bili Mattes
, Executive Director of the STEM-UP Network, and MWM-DE Co-Chair
Jennifer Kmiec
, Founder of Inspiring Women in STEM. For more details, including registration, visit
www.stemupnetwork.org/women-in-stem-career-summit
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South Carolina to Host 2nd Annual MWM State Symposium
The MWM movement in South Carolina is proud to announce the second annual statewide MWM-SC STEM Symposium. MWM-SC has pledged 5,000 mentoring relationship commitments to support moving girls or young women in toward STEM. The national goal of the movement has garnered over 2.3 million pledges for mentoring girls or women to collectively increase the interest and confidence of girls and young women in STEM. Over 1,000,000 of these pledges have been completed thus far. South Carolina joined the national movement, which includes over 40 states.
MWM-SC will host its second STEM Symposium on
Friday, May 11
from 9:00 am-12:00 pm at IT-ology in Columbia, SC. For more information please contact MWM-SC State Chair,
Chris Brady Wolfe
at
MWM.SC1@gmail.com
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As part of the Million Women Mentor’s entrepreneurship effort sponsored by Wells Fargo, MWM-EI matched mentors with growing women-owned STEM companies to assist in their growth. For the 2nd year of the program MWM-EI will look to match 5-10 WBEs to a respective larger company to act as their mentor for a year to assist the mentee company in ways to achieve growth.
Application Deadline: 5:00 pm EST,
Friday,
November 30
, 2018
Download the Application for the Program
here
.
Download a Description of the Program
here
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