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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Friday, December 7, 2018
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Join the Texas Girls Collaborative Project for our second 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.
Registration open.
UT Austin STEM Professional Development Day to follow on December 8th. Stay tuned for more details! TxGCP will be offering a Science Action Club: Bug Safari workshop and a SciGirls workshop.
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Educator Resources: All Educators
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November 13 - San Antonio, TX
We'll have breakfast and a robust conversation around recruiting and retaining girls in computer science education, including a panel of local luminaries to share their thoughts about the work we are doing here in San Antonio to improve diversity. Educators, teachers, administrators, students, parents and industry folks are all invited to attend.
Virtual
NASA will be performing up to three weeks of Quiet Sonic Boom Flights over Galveston, Texas during the month of November 2018. The dream is to have supersonic air travel for all in the future without disturbing people on land. A supersonic flight could mean reducing the flight time between Houston, TX and Dubai from 14 hours and 40 minutes to 8.5 hours. However, sonic booms are loud, annoying to people on the ground, and supersonic flight is currently prohibited over land. So NASA will test an experimental airplane in Galveston, TX that produces a “quiet” thump sound. The city will be outfitted with 20 audio sensors to measure acoustic exposure and up to 8 thumps can be heard each day. NASA has put together special video and classroom lessons (see attachment) to help students understand what will happen in the next few weeks. Please take advantage of these free resources.
Grades 3 - 12 // Essays due February 1
The EngineerGirl writing contest is, for the first time, asking students to submit works of creative fiction. We want stories about women and girls saving the day with their wits, skill, and whatever resources they can find to solve the problem. Maybe they are working alone, maybe they are part of an elite team. Maybe they just find themselves in an unusual situation that requires some innovative thinking. We want stories that inspire EngineerGirl readers to think, “I want to be able to do that” or “I can do that.”
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED OPPORTUNITIES
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Educator Resources: Elementary School Educators
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED OPPORTUNITIES
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Educator Resources: Middle School Educators
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Virtual
MapWorks Learning is a nonprofit that seeks teachers and students from across the globe to join Narrative Atlas, an initiative that promotes collaboration and solutions to address the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. If you are a middle or high school teacher and interested in connecting and collaborating on solutions with another classroom - join us! Its free.
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED OPPORTUNITIES
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Educator Resources: High School Educators
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Virtual
MapWorks Learning is a nonprofit that seeks teachers and students from across the globe to join Narrative Atlas, an initiative that promotes collaboration and solutions to address the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. If you are a middle or high school teacher and interested in connecting and collaborating on solutions with another classroom - join us! Its free.
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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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