Science, Technology, Math
Organization and program: Cedar Crest College, MathConn
Type: 1-day event
Ages: middle school
Address/Phone: Allentown, PA / Dr. Regina Brunner at 610-437-4471
Funding:
This nationally recognized program has introduced thousands of girls and their teachers to innovative approaches to learning and teaching mathematics. The day-long event encourages girls to pursue the study of mathematics and science and helps them overcome "math anxiety".
Organization and Program: Chatham College, Summer Ecology Program
Type: 2-week summer res. program
Ages:
Address/Phone: Pittsburgh, PA / Kim Nath at 412-365-1156
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Chatham College offers a two-week summer residential, hands-on environmental science program for high school girls, which includes classroom and fieldwork and several trips to regional locations for further in-depth study.
Organization and Program: Circle of Support, Inc.. Girl S.M.A.R.T. (Science, Math, Art, Reading, Technology)
Type: 8-week summer program
Ages: 7-15
Address/Phone: Dallas, TX
Funding: Dallas Women’s Foundation
A program offering an eight week, intensive summer program to young girls living in the southern Dallas area. This program will help improve low academic performance while developing and enhancing personal and social skills.
Organization and Program: Community TV Network, Support for Sisters Against Violence II
Type: minority-focus
Ages:
Address/Phone: 2035 West Wabansia, Chicago, IL 60647, 773-278-8500
Funding: Girls Best Friend Foundation
A girls' and young women's violence prevention program that focuses on leadership development, video production training, and an all-video screening workshop event. Also, GROWING UP FEMALE: Girls of Color Speak Out, a program that integrates technical production skills with media literacy while providing participants with a safe environment to explore and address social issues. This year, girls from Ames Middle School will learn video production skills and examine stereotypes about girls of color while they write, shoot, and edit their own videos.
Organization name: Cool Girls, Inc., Cool Scholars
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Address/Phone: 100 Edgewood Ave., Ste. 1000 Atlanta, GA 30303, 404.420.4364
Funding:
http://www.coolgirlsatlanta.org/GirlsPrograms.asp
Cool Scholars provides girls with tutoring in reading and math. Community volunteers and professional staff deliver an age- and grade-appropriate curriculum that reinforces basic skills. The program helps girls develop test-taking skills, and prepares them to better understand standardized tests. This program encourages girls to strive for excellence in academics.
Organization name: Cool Girls, Inc., Cool Tech
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Address/Phone: 100 Edgewood Ave., Ste. 1000 Atlanta, GA 30303, 404.420.4364
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Cool Tech participants learn how to be competitive in the marketplace of the future. In collaboration with the Atlanta Women's Network and Cap Gemini Ernst and Young, volunteers help girls learn about technology, improve their communication skills, and understand career planning.
Organization and Program: Echo Hill Outdoor School, Math and Science Camp
Type: 1-week summer sessions
Ages: grade 6-9
Address/Phone: Maryland
Funding:
http://www.mathandsciencecamp.com/
Organization and Program: Girls Count Mastery-Oriented Behavior Project
Type: in-classroom techniques
Ages: middle school
Address/Phone: Aurora, Colorado
Funding: Girls Can!
As the AAUW Educational Foundation 1991 report Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America, documents, girls often emerge from adolesence with doubts about their abilities. Four teachers in two Aurora middle schools introduced mastery-oriented techniques to help student read and understand assignments, solve math problems and conduct science experiments. Over the year, students learned to persist in their quest for solutions and take reasonable risks to become active participants in their school experiments. Also included a parent workshop highlighting ways for parents to encourage their daughter to master challenges outside the classroom and produced the publication I Did It! An Educator’s Guide to Developing Mastery-Oriented Learners.
Organization and Program: Girlstart Tech Center, Girlstart Camp
Type: 1-week summer day camps
Ages: 4th-9th grades
Address/Phone: Austin, Texas
Funding:
http://www.girlstartcamp.org/
math, science and technology programs.
Organization and Program: Miss Porter’s School, Summer Challenge
Type: month-long residential academic program
Ages: 7th-9th grades
Address/Phone: Farmington, Connecticut
Funding: participant fees
http://www.summerchallenge.org/
Features challenging and fun science, math and technology activities, athletics, and field trips. Started in 1995, Summer Challenge was developed in response to research on the importance of the middle-school years to girls' continued interest and competency in mathematics, technology, and science.
Organization and Program: New Life Harvest Ministries
Type: work-study
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Address/Phone:
Funding: Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham – The Women’s Fund
An innovative program that offers girls the opportunity to learn computer skills and to be able to work on their academic skills through the use of educational software. In the work-study program the girls learn advanced technological skills and participate in personal development training. This grant will help the organization to fully implement new sites in Kingston and the Tom Brown Housing Community.
Organization and Program: North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Girls in Science Programs
Type: day and residential 1-week camps
Ages: 6th & 7th graders
Address/Phone:
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North Carolina's Girls in Science Statewide Project provides girls with hands-on experience with living things, along with interaction with female science mentors.
Outdoor Ed-ventures, six-day residential science camps for seventh-grade girls, provide campers with canoeing, rafting, camping, and hiking experiences.
Organization and Program: Pacific Science Center, Camp Kaleidoscope
Type: summer day camp
Ages: 6th-8th grades
Address/Phone: Seattle
Funding:
Allows girls to sample a kaleidoscope of scientific fields, including astronomy, chemistry, criminology, engineering, and meteorology. Campers meet women who are making a difference in the scientific community and visit research labs in Seattle to see scientists at work.
Organization and Program: Project Exploration, Sisters 4 Science
Type: after-school and fieldwork program
Ages: 6th - 8th grades
Address/Phone: 990 E. 61st St., Chicago, IL 60637, 773-834-7623
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Combines leadership development with natural science explorations on Chicago's southwest side. The program works to inspire and empower urban girls through hands-on experiences with paleontology and natural science.
Organization and Program: Purdue Computer Science Summer Camps 2000
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Address/Phone: Purdue, West Lafayette, Indiana
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K-12 Outreach Program of Perdue's department of computer sciences, Tellabs, Motorola, Raytheon, and Abbott Laboratories
Boys-only and girls-only programs in computer science and robotics.
Organization name: Rowan University, AWE: Attracting women to science and engineering
Type: two-week summer sessions
Ages: middle school
Address/Phone:
Funding:
http://sun00.rowan.edu/~jahan/personal/kjweb/awe-web/awe.htm#mentors:
Students will interact with departmental faculty, undergraduate engineering students and representatives from local industry
Organization and Program: Science Club for Girls
Type: minority-focus
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Address/Phone: Cambridge
Funding:
In an attempt to close the gender gap in achievement in the sciences and math, the King Open School is piloting its own experimental project. The program targets minority girls in grades 8-12 with a special emphasis on girls who are at risk of academic failure. The curriculum is designed for girls and has a leadership-training component of junior assistants who help plan and present portions of their own training to younger girls in grades K-7. Volunteer women scientists mentor the junior assistants, leading to exciting interactions and learning. For example, an electronics experiment has girls build a music synthesizer bracelet in which their bodies complete the circuit. Girls also go on field trips to other girls' science clubs across the state. (Boston Women’s Fund)
Organization and Program: SMART girls, Smart futures
Type: 8-week course
Ages: junior high
Address/Phone: Oakland, CA
Funding: Girls Can!
Local coalition recruited girls from inner city junior highs to participate in the SMART (Science, Math, and Relevant Technology), facilitated by Girls Inc. Girls learned principles of engineering through creative experiments such as building bridges with spaghetti. Participants are linked with older girls attending a pre0engineering academy at Oakland Tech H.S. Girls also toured the Bechtel Corp, where they met with women scientists and engineers. The coalition also sponsored a parent workshop on gender equity.
Organization and Program: Smith College, Summer Programs
Type: 1-month summer course
Ages: high school
Address/Phone:
Funding:
http://www.smith.edu/summerprograms/ssep/
science and engineering program
Organization and Program: U. of Colorado, Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory
Type: 6-week part time summer internship
Ages: high school
Address/Phone: Colorado
Funding:
http://itll.colorado.edu/ITLL/index.cfm?fuseaction=GirlsInternship
Work in teams with other girls, university faculty and students to develop interactive elementary school-level multimedia software for an environmental phenomenon.
Organization and Program: University of Kentucky, Girls in Science
Type: 2-year program, 2-week summer programs/Saturday academy/mentoring
Ages: rising 7th graders
Address/Phone:
Funding:
http://www.mc.uky.edu/behavioralscience/girlsinscience.asp
Organization and Program: University of Maryland, The Physics Summer Outreach Program
Type: 2½ week residential programs
Ages: 8th grade
Address/Phone:
Funding:
The physics department provides 25 girls with the opportunity to take part in a program of hands-on physics. The free program is designed to interest girls in science and to demonstrate to them that they can do physics.
Organization and Program: USC Summer Science Program
Type:
Ages: middle school
Address/Phone:
Funding:
Engages girls in hands-on scientific exploration, this program gives students the opportunity to explore science as they interact with undergraduate and graduate students in various scientific fields and with women already engaged in careers in environmental, biological, and physical sciences.
Organization and Program: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Type: short programs, some residential
Ages: 6th grade and high school
Address/Phone:
Funding:
http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/Diversity/Girls/
math, science, engineering programs
Organization and Program: Women of the Future
Type: fieldtrips and classroom activities
Ages: high school
Address/Phone: St. Paul, Minnesota
Funding: Girls Can!
The project began with an expedition to an outdoor adventure park, engaged in challenges to boost leadership skills, team spirit and individual confidence. Participants attended a UNICEF-sponsored conference called "Girls and Girlhood around the World," where they learned about conidtion young women face around the globe. Other activities included visiting a traveling high-tech exhibit, learning about women in history, and meeting with prominent women in the arts and media. Students were encouraged to contact women they met during field trips and explore their own interests and career plans. Also prompted the school to purchase new course material that could be used in various courses.
Organization and Program: Windows Project (Women Inventing Notable Database Online Winning Self-Esteem)
Type: in-classroom
Ages: middle school
Address/Phone: Manchester, NH
Funding: Girls Can!
Local teachers, local AAUW branch, Girls Inc, Latin-American Center, Refugee Center, the Girl Scouts, and business leaders, partner to bring WINDOWS to three middle schools. Students created multimedia databases on outstanding women from around the world. Some classes were for girls only.
Math, Science, and Technology Programs for Girls The AAUW provides links to a number of programs and resources designed to improve girls' achievement in math, science, and technology and to help narrow the science and technology gender gap.
http://www.internaldrive.com/ summer courses in technology, 1-week, at universities. Some girl-specific weeks. How to get specific info?
http://www.dovercourt.org/c_extreme.html#girls
1 wk summer programs, 12-15 years "extreme sports" "sports mix" "community leaders" (no sports, how-to job apps, career, volunteering)
http://www.alternativesyouth.org/what_we_do_info.html "girl world", community, the Girl World Leadership Council (ages 10-14), Teen Group (ages 14-18), The S.H.E. (Sports Health Energy) Project (ages 8 - 18), Girl University (ages 8-15), Girl World Builders (ages 10-15), and Career Night (ages 8 and 18).
Women in Science and Engineering: Lagging Behind or Forging Ahead?
New York Times: Despite Gain in Degrees, Women Lag in Tenure in 2 Main
Fields
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/15/education/15WOME.html
Oklahoma University: The Nelson Diversity Surveys
http://cheminfo.chem.ou.edu/faculty/djn/diversity/top50.html
Women in Technology International
http://www.witi.com/
Women of NASA
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/intro.html
Retaining Undergraduate Women in Science, Math, and Engineering: A Model
Program
http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie97/papers/1267.pdf
Beloit College: Girls and Women in Science
http://www.beloit.edu/~gwsci/index.html#what
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Barbara McClintock
http://www.cshl.org/public/mcclintock.html#r. |
