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April 2020

Digital Resources for Educators & to Share with Families

FULL LIST OF DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR EDUCATORS We sifted through and pulled out the educator-specific professional development opportunities and digital learning and teaching tools aimed at educators to create this list for Texas educators.  We will continue to update as we receive resources.

FULL LIST OF DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES   Our team has also gone through the massive lists of resources to try to compile an easy-to-use and more succinct version of recommended STEM resources for families. You're welcome to share this with the families you work with and your networks. We will continue to update as we receive resources.

Upcoming TxGCP Events

Find more Greater Austin STEM Ecosystem events here and TxGCP events here.

Check out the recording from last month's Women's History Month webinar with AAAS IF/THEN here. View all previous webinar recordings

Educator Resources: All Educators

*NEW* ASEE Webinar: Training Tomorrow's Engineers to Build Resilience & Combat Climate Change April 15, 2020, 12 p.m. Support Earth Day 2020 and tune in to next week's webinar to learn how two interdisciplinary NSF-funded projects are training engineering students to build resilience and combat the effects of climate change.  *NEW* NASA Educational Resources for teaching Life Skills – Expeditionary Skills for Life April 13, 2020, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m., Online NASA Educator Professional Development is presenting a free 60-minute webinar for K-12 educators on April 13, 2020 at 11:00 am. You will learn about a series of educational activities designed to take you through educational expeditions that will help your students learn life skills that they can apply in almost every aspect of life. *NEW* NASA PD: Small Steps to Giant Leaps: 3, 2, 1…Takeoff (Pasos pequenos para Saltos Gigantes:3,2,1…¡Despegue!) April 15, 2020, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m., Online Participants will obtain information from activity 3,2,1… Takeoff. They will learn a series of demonstrations focused on the fourth flight forces using different materials and geometric shapes to determine which of them has the greatest and least susceptibility to flight forces . We will go back in history with NASA's X-Plans and aeronautics research and at the same time look into the future of NASA aeronautical innovations.

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED OPPORTUNITIES Siemens Possibility Grant Sweepstakes 2020 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (5/1) Technovation Girls - free global technology entrepreneurship program Despite the Odds: Young Women Who Persist in Engineering Executive Summary Saxena Family Foundation Grants STEM Education Outreach Grants Classroom Challenge on Solutions to Climate Change Energy Literacy for Our Youth Afterschool STEM 101 STEM Moments from TXPOST National AfterSchool Association FREE Tech Toolkit FREE STEM Female Role Models Book "Smithsonian Science How" Webcasts Hill Country Science Mill EcoRise - Environmental Sustainability Curriculum

Educator Resources: Elementary School

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED OPPORTUNITIES Professional Development Workshops at the Science Mill  Engineering Activity: Magnify It Family Engagement Project Resources for those engaging with families in STEM Elementary STEM Lesson Plans: Peanuts and NASA TCI: ForesTREE Experience Summer K-8 Teacher Workshop Open OutDoors/Every Kid in a Park Program Design Squad Global Free Resources Dumpster 101 Science Curriculum Thinkery Guided Tours and Focused Field Trips

Educator Resources: Middle School

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED OPPORTUNITIES Professional Development Workshops at the Science Mill ConocoPhillips Applied Mathematics Program (AMP!) (5/8) Engineering Activity: Design a Watch Face for the Visually Impaired Rising Stargirls Educator Astronomy and Astrobiology Free PD Aquatic Ecosystems: Austin's Natural Laboratories PlantingScience Free Resources Design Squad Global Free Resources Free Opportunity for Connecting and Collaborating on STEM Solutions New Activities on SciGirls CONNECT! Dumpster 101 Science Curriculum Activity: Citizen Science SciGirls Middle School Educator Hands-on Activity Resources

Educator Resources: High School

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED OPPORTUNITIES ConocoPhillips Applied Mathematics Program (AMP!) (5/8) Engineering Activity: Redesigning a Classroom for the Visually Impaired Opportunity: $1000 and More to Teachers for Expanding High School Computer Science Aquatic Ecosystems: Austin's Natural Laboratories UTeach STEM Educators Conference - June 30, 2020 PlantingScience Free Resources Free Opportunity for Connecting and Collaborating on STEM Solutions Design, Build, and Learn: The Fluid Power Challenge Science News Journal - Free Sign-up for High Schools Engineer Your World Engineering Go For It!

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Get Connected: STEM Email Groups, Volunteers, Mentors

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). Central TX |  DFW |  East Texas |  El Paso |  Houston |  Laredo |  RGV |  San Antonio |  Waco |  West TX 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.

About TxGCP & NGCP

Led by the Women in Engineering Program (WEP) at The University of Texas at Austin along with a Leadership Team and Champions Board, the Texas Girls Collaborative Project (TxGCP) brings together advocates and leaders from non-profits, K-12 schools, higher education institutions, companies and organizations across Texas. 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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