Friday, December 6, 2019, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Engineering Education & Research Center
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Join the Texas Girls Collaborative Project for our 3rd Annual Texas Women and Girls in STEM Summit designed to share best practices, connect organizations and individuals, and showcase outstanding efforts to increase the number of girls in STEM and support the retention of women in STEM careers. STEM professionals and all who are engaged in education, outreach, recruitment, and/or retention of women and girls in STEM are invited to join in.
This event is hosted during Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek), held in recognition of the birthday of computing pioneer Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906), and is one of the many events or programs joining in the Greater Austin STEM Ecosystem's CSEdWeek amplification.
Thanks to the corporate partners for supporting the Texas Women and Girls in STEM Summit. Summit Supporters include Abbott Women in STEM and Cirrus Logic.
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Saturday, December 7, 2019
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Join the programs and departments from across The University of Texas at Austin for the 2nd Annual UT Austin STEM Professional Development Day. Mix and match your workshops throughout the day. STEM educators and all who are interested in the workshops and sessions are invited to join in.
Participating UT Austin Programs & Departments include Engineer Your World, Environmental Science Institute, NASCENT Center, OnRamps, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), TACC EPIC Evaluation Services, UTeach Computer Science, UTeach Professional Development, and the Women in Engineering Program / Texas Girls Collaborative Project.
This event follows the Texas Women & Girls in STEM Summit on Friday, December 6th held on the UT Austin campus in the same venue.
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Request STEM Professionals for Classrooms & Programs!
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Texas STEM
Connections is a web-based tool that makes it easy for STEM professionals to connect with K-20 educators, classrooms, out of school time programs, and other volunteer opportunities. Professionals can share their skills and expertise to bring real-world, authentic learning opportunities to all our students helping to create the next generation of innovators. Through in-person matches and virtual sessions, professionals can help educators and program providers connect their students to the world of STEM. Together we can make a difference.
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Computer Science Education Week
(
December 9 - 15, 2019)
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Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) runs from December 9-15, 2019. This annual campaign inspires K-12 students to take interest in computer science (CS) and to connect with the broader community around the need for and value of CS education.
CSEdWeek and Hour of Code Resources
You will find many
Hour of Code
and
Comput
er Science Education Week
resources online. Browse the resources on
Code.org
or look to your local public libraries for additional materials. Code.org also features hands-on, computer-free "unplugged" coding basics for those without devices, without reliable internet, or for kids who may learn better this way.
Find all the resources you need to bring attention to your Hour of Code. Not sure where to begin? Start with the
Hour of Code how-to guide
for hosting an Hour of Code! Then promote and inspire using: Handouts, videos, posters, social media posts, stickers, and more.
Below are some additional resources to get you started:
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New Hour of Code activity from Google CS First
This year's Hour of Code is all about using our coding power for good. That's why the CS First team at Google has created a new activity where students can use their imagination to turn a real-life hero into a superhero using code.
Code Your Hero
is an activity that honors the everyday heroes in our students' lives who use their powers to better their communities. Students will use Scratch, a block-based coding language, to animate and bring a story or game to life with movement, dialogue and more. Using the CS First tutorial videos available in both English and Spanish, anyone can become programmers for the day.
"Code Your Hero" is a fun, interactive activity that can be completed in 15 minutes to an hour. Anyone can teach it and no computer science background is required.
Review the digital lesson plans
and other materials for educators.
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Accessible Hour of Code
The
Code.org
tutorials are all designed to be used with or without sound. All the videos have captions.
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Libraries Ready to Code
The American Library Association's
Ready to Code Collection
provides resources and strategies for coding and computational thinking activities that are grounded in research, aligned with library core values, and support broadening participation. They have
three experience levels
to help library staff connect with resources that reflect their own computational thinking (CT) experiences, communities, goals, and interests.
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Girlstart's DeSTEMber Curriculum
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DeSTEMber was created by
Girlstart as a month-long virtual program to build awareness for STEM, showing children and families that ‘STEM is everywhere.’ DeSTEMber’s online activity blogs and write-ups are provided as a resource to explore STEM at home, or for educators to use in their classrooms. Each year of the DeSTEMber curriculum is archived and available for educators and families
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Educator Resources: All Educators
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December 11-12 2020
El Paso, TX
By bringing tomorrow’s science into today’s classrooms, Insights El Paso's two-day professional development workshop will impact your understanding of STEAM and how to incorporate it into your classroom. Taught by a STEAM specialist, the workshop combines classroom and hands-on integration activities that are both accessible and inspiring. You’ll leave with new STEAM ideas and activities to incorporate into your classrooms. Lunch will be provided each day of the workshop. Teachers will receive a $100 stipend and 12 hours of professional development credit for attending the full workshop.
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED OPPORTUNITIES
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Educator Resources: Elementary School
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED OPPORTUNITIES
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Educator Resources: Middle School
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED OPPORTUNITIES
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Educator Resources: High School
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED OPPORTUNITIES
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Get Connected: STEM Email Groups, Volunteers, Mentors
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Join our K-12 STEM Outreach Google Groups! These email groups (open and moderated listservs) are all about sharing resources, information, events, volunteers, needs, and more with others reaching out to K-12 students aiming to excite them about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
For those not in one of these areas who still want to receive information going out to all groups, join the
Texas K-12 STEM Outreach group.
Contact
Tricia Berry for any specific regional requests or questions.
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The vision of the
National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) is to bring together organizations throughout the US and Puerto Rico that are committed to informing and encouraging girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
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The TxGCP eNewsletter is distributed approximately once a month. Visit the
TxGCP web site for additional updates on upcoming events, resources and mini-grant information.
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