CTE_Updates-9/7/11



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|National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation |

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|PIPELINE PRESS |

|August 2011 |

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|Career Magazine |

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|NAPE and Career Communications are accepting orders for the 2011/12 American Careers Magazine, parent edition. Orders are due September 16, 2011, |

|and the magazines will be available in late September. ORDER NOW!   |

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|Save the Date! |

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|The National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity's 2012 Professional Development Institute (PDI) is scheduled for April 16-19, 2012, in Arlington, |

|VA. Learn more about the 2011 PDI.   |

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|Resources |

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|Calling All Digital Divas, Web Chix and Coder Girls! The NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing honors young women active and interested in |

|computing and technology. Award winners receive cool prizes, gadgets, scholarships and all girls can join a community of fellow technically inclined|

|young women. |

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|"Grand Challenges for Engineering" is the theme for the Engineering Education Service Center's 7th Annual poster contest. |

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|The National STEM Video Game Challenge aims to motivate interest in STEM learning among America's youth by tapping into students' natural passions |

|for playing and making video games. |

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|CompuGirls is a culturally relevant technology program for girls, grades 8-12, from under-resourced school districts in the Greater Phoenix area. |

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|The goal of the DO-IT Scholars Program is to increase the participation of individuals with disabilities in challenging academic programs and |

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|Calendar |

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|ITEST STEM Careers Quarterly Webinar Series: Event 2, Bioscience Careers, September 20, 2011, 3:00 ET |

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|League for Innovation in the Community College: Second Annual STEMtech Conference, Indianapolis, IN, October 2-5, 2011  |

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|2011 Frontiers in Education Conference, Rapid City, SD, October 12-15, 2011 |

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|Annual Conference for Women Engineers: WE11, Chicago, IL, October 13-15, 2011 |

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|Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 15-18, 2011 |

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|Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Annual Conference 2011, Anaheim, CA, October 26-30, 2011 |

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|Scientists Dedicated to Advancing Hispanics/Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Annual Conference 2011, San Jose, CA, October 27-30, |

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|Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Portland, OR, November 9-12, 2011   |

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|American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, San Antonio, TX, June 10-13, 2012 |

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|WEPAN, Columbus, OH, June 26-28, 2012  |

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|Disclaimer   |

|Any opinions, findings, and conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the material published in the NAPE Update are those of the author(s) and do|

|not necessarily reflect the views of NAPE. Furthermore, inclusion of a product,  |

|program, or practice in the NAPE Update does not imply its endorsement by NAPE. |

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|Materials Use Policy |

|Please note that material found on NAPE's website or distributed via any other means and created by NAPE and/or the NAPE Education Foundation is |

|copyrighted.   |

|Learn more about the materials use policy.   |

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|National Science Foundation, |

|GSE/EXT: STEM Equity Pipeline Project, |

|Grant No. HRD-0734056 |

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|PIPELINE NEWS |

|On August 26, 2011, Foundation Board Member Wanda Gass won the Tech Titan Community Hero Award from the Metroplex Technology Business Council.Wanda,|

|a TI Fellow and DSP architect with Texas Instruments, was instrumental in getting a pilot project off the ground in Dallas and Plan schools to teach|

|physics teachers about gender equity in their classrooms. Congratulations, Wanda!    |

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|On August 19, 2011, NAPE CEO Mimi Lufkin was the keynote speaker at this year's  Rockwell Collins Engineering Experiences 2011 Kick-Off Breakfast in|

|Cedar Rapids, IA. View PowerPoint Presentation  |

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|On August 16, 2011, the NAPE Education Foundation and Illinois School District U-46 announced their collaboration in securing $50,000 as part of the|

|Innovation Generation grant program from the Motorola Solutions Foundation. |

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|On August 12, 2011, the National Science Foundation awarded $885,692 to the NAPE Education Foundation in support the "Educators' Equity in STEM |

|Academy," whose goal is to increase the recruitment, academic performance, and program completion of more women and underrepresented students in |

|select STEM courses and programs.                    |

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|On August 10, 2011, the Texas Instruments Foundation announced that it awarded $413,000 to the NAPE Education Foundation to manage and expand the |

|impact of the highly successful High-Tech High Heels (HTHH) program.   |

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|NEWS FROM WASHINGTON      |

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|House Resolution on Science Accountability Introduced Reps. Judy Biggert (R-IL) and Rush Holt (D-NJ), introduced a bi-partisan House resolution (H. |

|Res. 378) calling for "strong consideration" of the role of science achievement in the ESEA/NCLB school accountability system. |

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| The STEM Ed Coalition is asking citizens to send letters encouraging representatives in the House to co-sponsor the Resolution. Learn More    |

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|PUBLICATIONS       |

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|"Highly Abstract" Math Curriculum Taught on High Schools Not Preparing Students for Real World Sol Garfunkel and Mumford, New York Time, Summary by |

|ACTE |

|Mathematicians Garfunkel and Mumford write that there is an assumption that there is a single established body of mathematical skills that everyone |

|needs to know to be prepared for 21st-century careers. This assumption is wrong. The truth is that different sets of math skills are useful for |

|different careers. What we need is quantitative literacy, the ability to make quantitative connections whenever life requires and mathematical |

|modeling, the ability to move practically between everyday problems and mathematical formulations. Read More  |

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|At This Girls' Camp, Crafts Take a Drill Press Mokoto Rich,  New York Times |

|Forget tie-dyed shirts, lanyards and water games. At summer camp this year, Nautika Kotero, 13, learned to use a drill press, solder electrical |

|wires and build a lamp. Read More   |

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|Program Between Maryland Schools, Businesses Offers Internships to Math, Science Students Allison Bourg, The Daily Journal |

|Professional researcher Andrew Murphy can hardly contain himself when talking about the team of employees he has working for him this summer. He |

|launched into a vivid description of the research his group is doing - on variable star astronomy - which he hopes will land Keystone in a |

|prestigious scientific journal. "I'm treating them like a research team of grad students," Murphy said. But researchers Branden Gritz, Alexander |

|Perepechko and Javan Graham will all be seniors at North County High School. Read More   |

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|Teachers' Externships Show Real-world Use of Classwork Kirsten Jacobsen, Des Moines Register |

|"Real World Externships" have allowed more than 80 STEM teachers in Iowa to spend six weeks seeing firsthand how the information they present to |

|students can be used outside the classroom. Read More  |

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|Parity in STEM Fields at CCs and Happy Women Faculty Insider Higher Ed |

|NSF is supporting a research project to focus more attention on STEM faculty at community colleges, where men and women are about 50-50 in faculty |

|positions over all, and where women make up 47.7 percent of STEM faculty (compared to about one third at four-year institutions). The researchers' |

|major conclusion is that women in STEM faculty positions at community colleges are happy. Learn More  |

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|Engineers Find Soft Skills Hard L.M. Sixel, Houston Chronicle   |

|Universities across the country are giving their engineering and science students extra help navigating the soft skills that may come more naturally|

|to liberal arts students. In some schools, the communication and leadership training is woven into the traditional curriculum; in others, faculty |

|and staff reinforce the skills informally through career seminars. Read More  |

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|Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation US Department of Commerce |

|Women are vastly underrepresented in STEM jobs and among STEM degree holders despite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce and half of the |

|college-educated workforce. That leaves an untapped opportunity to expand STEM employment in the United States, even as there is wide agreement that|

|the nation must do more to improve its competitiveness. Read Report  |

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|Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads, National Academy of Engineering |

|This report analyzes the rate of change and the challenges the nation currently faces in developing a strong and diverse workforce and suggests that|

|the federal government, industry, and post-secondary institutions work collaboratively with K-12 schools and school systems to increase minority |

|access to and demand for post-secondary STEM education and technical training. The book also identifies best practices and offers a comprehensive |

|road map for increasing involvement of underrepresented minorities and improving the quality of their education. Read Report  |

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|Symposium: Unraveling the Double Bind: Women of Color in STEM Harvard Educational Review |

|This work surveys research on undergraduate and graduate-level women of color in STEM fields and assesses the experience of community college |

|transfers and undergraduates in those fields. Learn More  |

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|Do Internalized Feminine Norms Depress Girls' STEM Attitudes and Perceptions True Child  |

|What could be causing elementary school girls who excel at math and who love science, to suddenly lose all interest or develop low grades in these |

|subjects in late adolescence and early teens?  One important and under-explored answer is feminine gender norms. As girls age, they internalize |

|gender norms that force them to make a choice between excelling at STEM or being feminine. This report documents the existing literature, surveys |

|the problem in depth, and offers some intriguing new results from focus groups with young women of color. Learn More   |

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|STEM EQUITY PIPELINE WEBINARS |

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|All STEM Equity Pipeline webinars are archived. Past titles include: |

|GESA Works! Generating Expectations for Student Achievement Assessing Effectiveness: Do Your Program Activities Make a Difference? |

|Cognitive Beliefs and Cultural Variables Matter in STEM Career Development |

|Implicit Bias in STEM: The Power of Automatic, Unintended Mindsets |

|Effective Program Assessments |

|And more! |

| Access webinars.  |

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