Numerous programs and initiatives to create gender equity in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) have been implemented only to lose effectiveness or fade away. Had these programs had the benefit of collaboration with other girl-serving projects, organizations and institutions, and tools to assess and evaluate the impact of their efforts, their capacity for continuation and/or broader impact could have been substantially increased.
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Collaboration, as an interactive process, enables professionals across projects and communities to generate and carry out creative solutions and strategies that maximize benefit beyond that which one project or community could accomplish. This model includes a number of strategic activities that provide value and incentives to encourage organizations and individuals to work together and to use the leverage of a network or collaboration of individual girl-serving STEM programs to create the tipping point for gender equity in STEM.
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Great Lakes Girls Collaborative Professional Development Forum The Great Lakes Girls Collaborative implemented a half-day professional development forum at Marian College in Indianapolis on May 20. The opening program included a presentation by Nycole L. Harvey, Program Coordinator for the Indianapolis Urban League, a summer technology day camp for 12-17 year old girls. This was followed by concurrent sessions on Attracting K-12 Girls to Computing through Alice; Involving Girls in Robotics Clubs; Targeting Girls through Purdue University's K-12 Outreach Program; and Middle School Family Math. Connecticut Girls Collaborative Spring Forum The Connecticut Girls Collaborative held its Spring Forum, Empowering Girls through Collaboration, on May 28, 2009, at the New England Air Museum. All participants enjoyed a session with Techbridge, launched in 2000 by the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland to expand the options of girls in underserved communities and to address the shortage of women and underrepresented groups in technology and engineering. The morning ended with a tour of the New England Air Museum. NGCP included in Landmark Conference Publication: A Watershed Moment |
Mini-Grants are Available Via Regional or State Collaboratives Mini-grants are awarded to girl-serving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) focused programs to support collaboration, address gaps and overlaps in service, and share promising practices. View the schedule and apply for a mini-grant. NGCP Webcasts The archived February 11th, 2009 webcast, Best Practices in Creating Successful Collaborations: Lessons Learned from the National Girls Collaborative Project, examines the key elements of effective collaboration by providing lessons learned from NGCP project staff and partners, including an opportunity to see collaboration in action by hearing about a new NGCP-SciGirls Project. Karen Peterson, Principal Investigator for the National Girls Collaborative Project, presents tips for creating successful collaborations.
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