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Strategies to help girls stay engaged in STEM learning

April 16, 2025 by Laura Ascione
Role models, mentorship, and resources help bridge the gender gap and ensure that girls have opportunities to succeed in STEM learning fields.
Ensuring that girls feel supported and empowered in STEM from an early age can lead to more balanced workplaces, economic growth, and groundbreaking discoveries.

KidWind Supports New Activity and Coloring Book Featuring Women in Energy Careers

October 10, 2024 by ESchool News Staff
Saint Paul, Minn. – Following the success of the children’s book Everyday Superheroes: Women in Energy Careers, authors Erin Twamley ... Read more
STEM & STEAM Trends

Report finds persistent STEM career exposure gaps for women

August 20, 2024 by Laura Ascione
A national report reveals a critical need to improve career guidance to address labor shortages and STEM exposure gaps for women.
Women play a crucial role in filling high-paying, in-demand STEM careers, but they account for just 34 percent of the STEM workforce, according to a new report from YouScience…
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Renaissance Named One of Fortune’s Best Workplaces for Women™ 2023

October 31, 2023 by ESchool News Staff
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ —  Renaissance, a leader in pre-K–12 education technology, announces that the company has been recognized as a  2023 ... Read more

Academy of Hope Case Study

February 4, 2025October 23, 2023 by Jeff Festa
  Over the past 40 years Reverend Joseph E. Washington has provided healthcare for the underserved, promoted economic opportunity for ... Read more
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CompTIA ChannelPro 2023 Cecilia Galvin Scholarship Winner Announced

August 8, 2023 by ESchool News Staff
Las Vegas (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry and workforce, announced that Sirihaasa ... Read more
STEM & STEAM Trends

Powerful strategies to motivate girls in STEM

December 7, 2022July 22, 2022 by Dawn McCotter, Teacher Programs Manager, Van Andel Institute for Education & Ryan Duncan, Editorial Specialist, Van Andel Institute for Education
Classrooms that make STEM learning a priority and encourage girls to get involved are paving the way for future success.
The history of STEM is filled with amazing women who revolutionized our understanding of science. Take Grace Hopper, one of the first computer programmers who went on to…
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“Biodegradable sanitary pad made out of dragon fruit peels designed by a team of Vientamese girls wins USD 100,000 in The Earth Prize 2022 competition!”

April 3, 2022 by ESchool News Staff
On Friday, March 25th, The Earth Foundation held a fully virtual event, The Earth Prize 2022 Awards Ceremony, to announce ... Read more
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Gale Primary Sources Release New Archives Dedicated to Underrepresented Histories

March 30, 2022 by ESchool News Staff
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. – March 30, 2022 – Gale, part of Cengage Group, is supporting academic initiatives in diversity, equity ... Read more
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KidWind Supports New Children’s Book Featuring Women in Energy

November 8, 2021 by ESchool News Staff
(Saint Paul, Minn.) November 8, 2021 – Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, the authors of the upcoming book Everyday Superheroes: ... Read more
SEL & Well-Being

Reimagining schools as remote employers

June 8, 2021April 5, 2021 by Kate Eberle Walker, CEO, PresenceLearning
If schools want to retain employees, rethinking the idea of the physical workspace—and making remote teletherapy work more widespread—is key
To think about retaining employees, schools need to think about retaining women, and particularly working moms.
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imagiLabs raises $300k pre-seed to further bridge the gender gap in coding

February 25, 2021 by ESchool News Staff
imagiLabs (www.imagilabs.com), the all-female founded startup that makes coding more accessible to young girls, has raised $300k (€250k) in pre-seed ... Read more
Newsline

Interactive Field Trips Offered to Educators for Black History Month, President’s Day, Women’s History Month and Earth Day

February 8, 2023February 5, 2021 by ESchool News Staff
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In preparation for several upcoming significant historical, cultural and societal events, the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) has ... Read more
STEM & STEAM

What motivates girls to pursue STEM?

July 23, 2018March 23, 2018 by Laura Ascione
It’s a persistent and troubling problem: Why are girls so underrepresented in STEM clubs and subjects in K-12 through college, ... Read more

Women in Technology Scholarship

April 2, 2017 by Laura Ascione
The Falling Colors Foundation’s Women in Technology Scholarship will be awarded to a New Mexico high school senior girl who ... Read more
STEM & STEAM

New Trump laws will support women in STEM fields

March 27, 2017 by Laura Ascione
STEM fields
President Donald Trump has signed two bills aimed at increasing the number of women who pursue entrepreneurial endeavors and space-related STEM careers. "Currently, only 1 in every 4…

Women in Technology Scholarship

March 9, 2017February 23, 2017 by Laura Ascione
3D printers
StudySoup is offering a $1,000 Women in Technology Scholarship to an outstanding female student who is planning a career in ... Read more
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Betsy DeVos: Fierce hostility to public schools should be a disqualifier

February 27, 2017January 11, 2017 by Barry W. Lynn, Tribune News Service
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STEM & STEAM

An uptick in the hiring of women for tech jobs

November 22, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
There are signs that tech companies are hiring more women, but women still appear to make up far less than half of all new hires in the industry,…
STEM & STEAM

Women gain in some STEM fields, but not computer science

November 18, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
A few weeks ago, I wrote about ways to get more women interested in computer science, The New York Times reports.
STEM & STEAM

Bringing Women and Minorities to IT

October 28, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Women earn 57 percent of all undergraduate degrees in the country, and 52 percent of all math and science undergraduate degrees, Government Technology reports.
STEM & STEAM

Why are there still so few women in science?

October 4, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Last summer, researchers at Yale published a study proving that physicists, chemists and biologists are likely to view a young male scientist more favorably than a woman with…
STEM & STEAM

Young women will find engineering inspiring, not intimidating

October 3, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Equality and diversity within engineering have been a hot media topic recently, with figureheads such as the president of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), Barry Clarke, speaking…

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