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Drawing from our two‐year ethnography, we juxtapose the experiences of two cohorts in one culturally responsive computing program, examining how the program fostered girls’ emerging identities as technosocial change agents.

Discourse about girls and women of color in technology has followed the familiar path of using a single-unit analysis to explain disparity.

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STELAR ITEST Summit 2017 Keynote Panel

Career development theory: From theory to practice in ITEST projects

Facilitator: Joyce Malyn-Smith

Keynote: David Blustein, Professor, Boston College

ITEST panelists: 

Kimberly Scott

STELAR ITEST Summit Day 2 Keynote Panel, Q&A Session featuring:

STELAR ITEST Summit 2017 Day 2 Keynote Panel, Kimberly A. Scott

Survey after survey has shown a lack of women engaged in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.

STELAR would like to congratulate Dr. Kimberly A. Scott, Principal Investigator for the CompuGirls ITEST project, on her appointment by President Obama to lead the National STEM Collaborative.

Congratulations are in order to Kimberly Scott, a long time ITEST community member, and founder of COMPUGIRLS, for being named a STEM Access Champion of Change at the White House.

STELAR recently caught up with Dr. Kimberly A.

The STELAR center organized a panel at the Summit to highlight findings from the ITEST program related to motivating students to pursue and persist in STEM education and career pathways.

What role does community, family, and culture play in the motivation to learn? What motivates young people to participate in STEM learning experiences? What do these experiences teach them about STEM educational and career paths?

STELAR and select ITEST projects delivered a panel presentation at the Massachusetts STEM Summit in Worcester's DCU Center on Wednesday, October 22, 2014.

Moderator:  Sarita Pillai

This webinar focused on current findings from the ITEST program related to youth motivation and STEM career development. Participants heard from ITEST projects working across the U.S. to learn specific strategies for as well as successes and challenges with fostering and assessing youth