Welcome to the National Partner
Webcast for Introduce a Girl to
Engineering Day
We will begin at 11:00 AM Pacific /
2:00 PM Eastern
Webcast Agenda
• Overview of Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day and
2011 Theme
• Objective of Event / 10 Week Initiative
• Introduce 10 National Partners and Discuss
Commitments
• Examples of Ways Partners Can Participate
• Preview Web site, Resources, Materials
• Gather Partner Feedback
• Questions & Answers
• Next Steps
Introduction of Presenters
• Leslie Collins - National Engineers Week
Foundation
• Amy Foster – National Girls Collaborative
Project
• Cheryl Juarez – Girls RISEnet National Museum
Network
• Laura Huerta Migus – Girls RISEnet National
Museum Network
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About the National Engineers Week
Foundation
The Foundation is the E in STEM.
We work year-round.
We are collaboration at work, owned by all.
Our strengths are in volunteerism outreach and
informal education.
• Programs are … compelling yet simple to execute
so that anyone and everyone can innovate with
them.
Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day
2001 Founding partners with Foundation: AWIS,
IBM, Mentornet, SWE, WEPAN
Call to action in engineering profession
Attention to issue of under-representation
Girl Day Current Model
10,000 engineers
1 million K-12 girls
Foundation provides toolkit and national pledge
roster
‘10 for 10’ Anniversary Campaign
• 10 national signature partners each with 10
partners/affiliates
• Outreach to 10,000 10-year-old girls
• 10 weeks
• Launch February 24, 2011
• Conclude Mother’s Day May 8, 2011
‘10 for 10’ National Partners
Girls RISEnet/ASTC*
NGCP*
AAUW
Girl Scouts
National Engineers Week Foundation*
NCGS
SciGirls
SWE
WEPAN
*Adhoc committee
‘10 for 10’ National Partners
1. Participate in telecons and help organize and implement
the national program.
2. Reach out to 10 other affiliates, schools, sections, or
subsidiaries to engage and ensure participation.
3. Give those orgs ideas on how to participate.
4. Get them to report to the database.
5. Give logo and boilerplate about the national org to
National Engineers Week Foundation.
6. Both to appear online.
7. National partners included in launch press release. Should
be prepared for comment.
‘10 for 10’ Local Partners
• Create and implement events
• Report to national office
National Girls Collaborative Project
The National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP)
brings together organizations that are committed
to informing and encouraging girls to pursue
careers in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM).
www.ngcproject.org
Project Goals
1. Maximize access to shared resources within
projects and with public and private sector
organizations and institutions interested in
expanding girls’ participation in STEM.
2. Strengthen capacity of existing and evolving
projects by sharing promising practice research
and program models, outcomes and products.
3. Use the leverage of a network or collaboration of
individual girl-serving STEM programs to create
the tipping point for gender equity in STEM.
Educators- Ways to Participate
• Host a role model luncheon. Invite professionals to
share about their career during roundtable discussions.
• Organize a fun field trip. You can find an event or site at
www.mydiscover-e.org or www.engineeringsights.org.
• Check out the engaging curriculum Techbridge offers to
provide girls with hands-on experiences to introduce
engineering concepts. See www.techbridgegirls.org.
• Collaborate with your local Society of Women Engineers
section to host an event for girls. http://aspire.swe.org
Educators- Ways to Participate
• Participate in the March Global Marathon For, By and About
Women in Engineering & Technology www.globalmarathon.net
• Attend a special program hosted at your local science center.
• Check out the engineering activities that are found in the Girl
Scout journey series “It’s Your Planet-Love It!” or contact your
local Girl Scout Council to find out if a special event is being held
in honor of E-Week.
• Host a spring break engineering camp at your college to engage
girls in positive experiences and provide a tour of the campus.
Industry-Ways to Participate
• Visit a classroom to share more about your career
and educational pathway.
• Let a high school student shadow you on the job.
• Hold a Saturday program for employees’
daughters and granddaughters.
• Work with a local Girl Scout troop on technologyrelated badges and journey activities.
• Participate in the March Global Marathon For, By
and About Women in Engineering & Technology.
Everyone-Ways to Participate
• Search the National Girls Collaborative Project Program
Directory to find collaborating partners, scientists, and
programs for girls www.ngcproject.org/directory/index.cfm.
• Sign the Engineers Pledge on Facebook to help give
engineering a better image.
• Visit engineering Web sites designed especially for girls:
www.engineergirl.org, www.Gettech.org,
www.engineeryourlife.org, www.wieo.org.
• Attend a special program hosted at your local science
center.
• Find a SciGirls Science Club at http://pbskids.org/scigirls.
Girls RISEnet (Raising Interest in Science and Engineering)
National Museum Network
• Project goals:
– Address the national need to cultivate diversity in preparing
the next generation of female engineers.
– Build a national network of science centers committed to
strengthening the professional capacity of informal science
educators to engage and motivate girls in science and
engineering.
– Contribute to the development of a diverse pool of female
engineers, enabling the nation to move toward a more
equitable workforce.
• Project Partners:
– Miami Science Museum
– Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC)
– SECME, Inc.
• Core components:
– Train-the-trainer model to build capacity of 11 partner
museums and museum practitioners in their regions.
– Follow-up support
– Mini-grants to support implementation in regions
– Web site resources
Funded by NSF HRD Research on Gender in Science and
Engineering Program/Extension Services (GSE/EXT)
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California Academy of Sciences
Connecticut Science Center
Center of Science Industry COSI Columbus
Explora!
Louisville Science Center
Maryland Science Center
Miami Science Museum
New York Hall of Science – NYSCI
Oregon Museum of Science & Industry – OMSI
Saint Louis Science Center
Sci-Port: Louisiana’s Science Center
• Suggestions for Museums:
– Expand on events already planned for
Engineering Week to include activities for girls.
– Add an engineering component to your
afterschool or weekend programming.
– Contact engineering societies or chapters at your
local universities – they may be able to provide
activities and volunteers for the event.
– Contact local industry partners to recruit female
engineer role models for your program
participants.
Tools and resources
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Ideas for participation
National media outreach
Press release template for local events
Graphic/icon
Web portal at eweek.org
Data capture
Engineering outreach portal at mydiscover-e.org
for public events
Survey Monkey - Fields
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Last Name
City
State
Country
Email Address
Profession
Survey Monkey - Fields
7. Which program are you Participating with?
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National Engineers Week Foundation
National Girls Collaborative Project
Girls RISEnet/ASTC
Girls Inc
Society of Women Engineers
National Coalition of Girls Schools
SciGirls
AAUW
Girl Scouts
WEPAN
Survey Monkey - Fields
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Event contact email if different
Organization PR Contact Email
Number of Girls participating?
Number of 10 year olds participating?
What are your activity or event plans?
Date of event or activity?
Location of activity (school, home, science center, etc.)?
Is this the first time you have organized or participated in
an event to encourage girls in engineering & technology?
16. Other partner groups at the event?
To access this survey please go to:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PRDPXFN
Questions & Answers
Next Steps
http://www.eweek.org/EngineersWeek/Introduce.aspx