June Conference Focuses on Girls, STEM
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 12, 2009) – The Kentucky Girls STEM Collaborative has scheduled
two events in mid-June designed to help teachers, business people, parents and others to
encourage girls and young women to consider careers in science, technology, engineering and
math.
The collaborative – a statewide coalition of educators, government leaders and business leaders – will hold its first of what is planed to be an annual conference from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday, June 15, at the Hyatt Regency Lexington.
That conference will be followed on Tuesday, June 16, with a teacher’s workshop in Room 230 of the University of Kentucky Student Center Addition.
The June 15 conference will feature a keynote address by Jo Sanders, leader of Gender Equity for Educators; a business panel featuring women who hold important positions with several major corporations; lunch speaker Carey Buxton of the FBI Engineering Research Facility, Quantico, Va.; and afternoon breakout sessions focusing on best practices for elementary and middle school girls, high school girls and post-secondary girls.
Sanders will lead the June 16 workshop, which runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
For youth attending on June 16, the Kentucky Girls STEM Collaborative is holding a “Girls Day Out” event for middle- and high-school girls. Participants will tour UK, visit several surrounding industrial facilities and return to UK for lunch and other attractions.
Deadline for registration for the conference and workshop is June 1. There is no registration fee. Lunch is provided.
View more information or register for the conference, workshop or Girls Day Out. Questions may be directed to Carol Hanley or Sue Scheff, co-directors of the Kentucky Girls STEM Collaborative.
The collaborative – a statewide coalition of educators, government leaders and business leaders – will hold its first of what is planed to be an annual conference from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday, June 15, at the Hyatt Regency Lexington.
That conference will be followed on Tuesday, June 16, with a teacher’s workshop in Room 230 of the University of Kentucky Student Center Addition.
The June 15 conference will feature a keynote address by Jo Sanders, leader of Gender Equity for Educators; a business panel featuring women who hold important positions with several major corporations; lunch speaker Carey Buxton of the FBI Engineering Research Facility, Quantico, Va.; and afternoon breakout sessions focusing on best practices for elementary and middle school girls, high school girls and post-secondary girls.
Sanders will lead the June 16 workshop, which runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
For youth attending on June 16, the Kentucky Girls STEM Collaborative is holding a “Girls Day Out” event for middle- and high-school girls. Participants will tour UK, visit several surrounding industrial facilities and return to UK for lunch and other attractions.
Deadline for registration for the conference and workshop is June 1. There is no registration fee. Lunch is provided.
View more information or register for the conference, workshop or Girls Day Out. Questions may be directed to Carol Hanley or Sue Scheff, co-directors of the Kentucky Girls STEM Collaborative.