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ITEST Webinar: Cultural Relevance in Science Teaching

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Presenter: Dr. Angelicque Tucker Blackmon, National Science Foundation

Summary: This presentation shares resources and approaches for culturally relevant science teaching, followed by specific examples of these approaches used by ITEST project staff Deborah Muscella of the Technology at the Crossroads Project in Boston and Simon Karpen of the SUCCEED Apprenticeship project in Raleigh, NC, and a question and answer session.

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ITEST Webinar: Engaging Diverse Learners in STEM

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Moderator: Sarita Pillai, ITEST Learning Resource Center at EDC

Presenters: Steve Bean/Jacob Martinez, Girl Game Company; Angela Calabrese Barton, GET City; Heather Almquist, Paleo Exploration

The Power of Collaboration: Providing High-Quality Computer Science Opportunities to K-12 Youth

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Summary: This webcast featured two projects that utilize collaboration to engage underrepresented youth in Computer Science activities: The Computer Science Collaboration Project, which aims to efficiently increase participation of underrepresented groups and ITEST project, Watsonville Tecnologiaa-Educacion-Comunidad (TEC), an after-school technology program for Latino youth. The vision of the project is to efficiently increase participation of underrepresented groups in computer science opportunities and activities by effectively building coll

ITEST Webinar: Diversifying the STEM Workforce: The ITEST Program

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Presenters: Siobhan Bredin, ITEST Learning Resource Center at EDC; Cynthia Newson, ITEST Learning Resource Center at EDC; Dr. Kimberly A. Scott, COMPUGIRLS; Dr. Kevin Clark, Game Design Through Mentoring and Collaboration; Dr. Daryl Williams, National Science Foundation

ITEST Webinar: Research and Strategies for Engaging African American and Latino Families in Informal STEM Education

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Presenters: Jacob Martinez, Project Director, Watsonville TEC, Animando a Estudiantes con Technologia (AET); Patrik Lundh, Education Researcher, SRI International, Girls InnovaTE3

Gender Indicators in Science, Engineering and Technology

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This Toolkit for Gender Indicators in Engineering, Science and Technology, designed for guidance in collecting sex-disaggregated data in scientific and technological activities, aims at helping decision-makers, researchers, and practitioners understand gender issues better and formulate successful policy and programming. It intends to promote a common approach in the systematic collection of sex-disaggregated data in science and technology.In addition to guidance in collecting data, each Toolkit provides an overview of the participation of women in STEM fields, both in industrialized and

Preparing Tomorrow's STEM Workforce through Exploration, Equity, and Engagement

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Preparing Tomorrow's STEM Workforce through Exploration, Equity, and Engagement is a product of the previous ITEST Learning Resource Center (LRC) and includes a series of six articles (plus a preface) highlighting key themes and lessons learned in the first five years of the ITEST program.

Inclusion, Disabilities, and Informal Science Learning

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Inclusion, Disabilities, and Informal Science Learning, a report by the CAISE Access Inquiry Group, offers a theoretical framework for thinking about inclusion of people with disabilities in informal science education (ISE), then reviews current practice in museums (broadly defined), in media and technology, and in youth and community programs.

Tech-Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age

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This report provides recommendations for changes in the the way information technology is used, applied, and taught in the nation's classrooms in order to engage girls and women.

Women in Science & Technology - The Business Perspective

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Companies with well-managed gender mainstreaming policies often see an improvement in their economic performance - This is a key finding of a report on Women in Science and Technology (WiST), created by the European Commission. The WiST report examines what can be done to attract more women researchers into industry.

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