International Women in Engineering Day is coming up on June 23, 2022! Now in its 9th year, this annual event is the brainchild of the Women’s Engineering Society (WES).

This year's theme is Inventors & Innovators (#INWED22). Join on June 23, as WES hosts a free webinar to celebrate the best, brightest, and bravest women in engineering — the inventors and innovators who dare to be part of the solution and are helping to build towards a brighter future. They also offer a curated list of activities and resources for individuals and educators.

A rocket built by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin carried its fifth group of passengers to the edge of space, including the first-ever Mexican-born woman to make such a journey.

The 60-foot-tall suborbital rocket took off from Blue Origin's facilities in West Texas [on June 5, 2022], vaulting a group of six people to more than 62 miles above the Earth's surface — which is widely deemed to make the boundary of outer space — and giving them a few minutes of weightlessness before parachuting to landing.

Most of the passengers paid an undisclosed sum for their seats. But Katya Echazarreta, an engineer and science communicator from Guadalajara, Mexico, was selected by a nonprofit called Space for Humanity to join this mission from a pool of thousands of applicants. The organization's goal is to send "exceptional leaders" to space and allow them to experience the overview effect, a phenomenon frequently reported by astronauts who say that viewing the Earth from space give them a profound shift in perspective.

As part of their mission to encourage STEM learning opportunities, Million Girls Moonshot shared the following activities for programs and families to try this summer: