You're In!Discover How to Enroll Up to 25-50% Female Students in Your STEM Classes — and achieve diversity at your educational institution!
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Online Training Do you have extraordinary STEM programs that are predominantly filled with male students? Do you want a gender balance, but struggle with attracting women who are enthusiastic about STEM? IWITTS can help you recruit and retain more female students in your STEM programs. |
In this video, your trainer Donna Milgram shares a "confession" about a lab strategy that will help your female students: Watch this short video to learn how to help your female (and male) students be more successful in their STEM courses. |
▸ What Educators Are Saying
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 Attend the WomenTech Educators Training from the comfort of your own desk. Females in STEM: Key Factors for Recruitment ✓ Top three recruitment strategies & how to put them to use Gender Diversity in STEM: Boosting Enrollment & Implementing New Culture Strategies to Keep STEM Students on Course & Improve Graduation Rates Addressing the STEM Challenge: Appeal to Women Who Aren't Excited by STEM Build a Leadership Team Model for Women in STEM: Strategies for Success Download a sample letter to gain support (DOC). |
You Will Take Away:
- An easy-to-implement recruitment plan to greatly increase the number of women and girls in your STEM classrooms.
- A retention plan for your school to increase the completion rate of your female (and male students), starting this semester.
- The knowledge and confidence you need to put these plans into action right away, and free bonus tools that will help you be even more successful. (See Bonuses section below.).
- Plus, A certificate of completion from IWITTS and the option for a unit of continuing education credit from Fresno Pacific University.
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Weekly Customized Feedback and Support for Your Team:
Members of Gold and Silver level teams have direct access to Donna and her talented team during the training. Every week, your team will receive individualized written feedback on the development of your Recruitment or Retention Action Plan and your personal encouragement and welcoming conversations. Plus, you’ll take part in two live Question and Answer calls with Donna where your team can get even more of your questions answered, and learn from the successes and challenges of other teams in the training.
This training is designed to provide you with a roadmap that will enable you to achieve your goals and because the training is over ten weeks, you will receive support for implementation of your plan strategies.
We are committed to helping educators succeed in creating a gender balance in STEM. Once you have achieved results in increasing the number of female students in your programs, you may be featured in case studies or webinars to highlight your team’s accomplishments while inspiring other educators!
| The Power of Teams:
Teams communicate as a single voice during the program. While team members may watch modules individually, the team joins together weekly to synthesize and apply the information into a group assignment. These assignments build to create full recruitment and retention action plans by the end of the training. Experience and research show that participating as a team sets you up to be successful and see results. IWITTS has found in our 5 NSF-funded projects and 20 years of offering professional development that educators who work in teams develop stronger Women in STEM Recruitment and Retention Plans, are able to get the support they need to start implementing those plans right away, and are more likely to institutionalize lasting change. Some of the many benefits of participating as a team:
Who Should Be on Your Team: Your team will be the most effective if it includes a variety of stakeholders from your college dedicated to increasing the number of female students in the targeted STEM program(s). The most effective teams have 3-6 members. Ideally, a dean, department chair, technology center director, or Principal Investigator (PI) of an Advanced Technology Education (ATE) grant will act as key leader (the key contact) and an instructor from the targeted program will act as co-leader. Recommended core team members:
Other potential team members could include counselors, advisors, outreach coordinators, curriculum developers, and learning center staff. The WomenTech Educators Online Training includes additional guidance on forming and working with a Women in STEM Leadership Team outside of the online training. A full Women in STEM Leadership Team may include more than 3-6 team members, so your core online training team may grow to include other key stakeholders such as representatives from feeder high school(s) or job training programs. The larger the Women in STEM Leadership Team the greater the likelihood for change. Download a sample "Join My Team" letter to recruit team members (DOC). |
The more educators who are trained, in your school, the more effective you will be! |
About Your Trainer: Donna Milgram
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Learn directly from Executive Director Donna Milgram, the creator of the WomenTech Educators Training |
Donna Milgram is the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS), a national nonprofit organization founded in 1994 that provides educators with a roadmap to increasing the number of women and girls in science, technology, engineering and math.
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What Educators Are Saying About the Training:
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"The training was time well spent. It was such a minimal amount of time to get so many concrete implementable strategies. The WomenTech Educators Online Training gives you the most for your money—you can implement the tools immediately with minimal resources and see true quantitative results!" |
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"We have the first three women in our Auto Technology Program and really want to make sure they succeed. After participating in the WomenTech Educator’s online training, we created additional open lab time for them, realizing they may need extra time to develop hands-on skills in a nonthreatening atmosphere. Two months into the course they are still with us. I learned so much about retention from the online training, I decided our entire Engineering and Technology Department could benefit and we are bringing the online training to our school and rolling it out to all of the technical faculty over the next two years." ~ Van Madray, Dean of Construction and Industrial Technology Division, Pitt Community College, Winterville, NC |
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"Attending the WomenTech Educators training was the best decision I have made in a long time! During the training, I developed a recruitment and retention plan for one of the CIS programs. This is not a training where you consider doing “something” when you get back to your office, you are actually developing and obtaining feedback from other colleagues on what they have done and how you can improve your plan before implementation! Plus, I will be able to take my experience and work on other programs of study using the same framework." ~ Edna Quintana Claus, Ph.D., M.B.A., CIS Division Director, Texas State Technical College Harlingen, Texas |
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"The WomenTech Educators Online Training has the potential to change the way you view your program. Important data is presented with passion and humor. I want you to know I have gained a great deal from the course. By the time you have a graduate degree and have worked in education for decades, most "professional development" is repetitive. I can honestly say that you have given me much to think about and that it will result in changes to my approach to course development." ~ Lauran Sattler, Department Chair, Computer Information Systems, Ivy Tech Community College, President's Award for Instructional Excellence 2007, Warsaw, IN |
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"The online training was very manageable because it was asynchronous. I'm always teaching an overload, but you watch the training videos at your leisure, and participate as you're able. Because of that I was able to integrate the training into my very busy schedule." ~ Dr. Cynthia V. Marcello, Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems, SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake, NY |
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"I learned a lot of new methods and perspectives on retention I did not have before and I've already started making changes on how I do things here at my school! The WomenTech Educators Online Training was a content-filled and highly informative training program." ~ Antigone Sharris, Full-time Faculty & Program Coordinator, Engineering Technology Program, Triton College, River Grove, IL |
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We've added these two bonuses to the training because our busy educators do not need to recreate the wheel. You'll have template outreach materials to help with recruitment from the get-go, as well as a way to find free and low cost classroom resources.
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NSF-Funded WomenTech Educators Online Training Program Timeline
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Orientation Week: June 8 - June 14 Recruitment Training: June 15 - July 12 Recruitment Q&A Call: Week of July 13 Break/Catch Up Week: July 20 - 26 Retention Training: July 27 - August 23 Retention Q&A Call: Week of August 24
Time Required: Hours required: About 2-3 hours per week. This can include the time to start implementing your team’s plan and seeing results, even while the training is happening! |
 Visual Overview of NSF-funded WomenTech Educators Online Training Program |
Dear Administrator,
Are you frustrated by the challenges your institution has faced in recruiting and retaining more female students to your STEM classes and programs?
If you're like me, you want to see more women enrolled in STEM classes and prepared to explore all the engaging and fulfilling opportunities available in STEM career pathways.
It's time to see more female faces in your excellent STEM classes and programs!
You've been wanting to improve the educational diversity
of your classrooms…
But you keep running into roadblocks.
You're in the right place if...
- You have tried to recruit female students to your STEM programs and found your efforts haven't worked
- You have limited time and want to ensure your recruitment efforts are effective and efficient
- You finally recruited one or two female students to your STEM classes... Only to have them drop out
- You want to improve educational diversity across all your STEM programs
- Your male retention rate also needs improvement
Don't worry—these problems are not unique to your institution.
You're in the right place to improve the recruitment and retention of women and create lasting institutional change in your school, district, region or state!
Increase the number of women in your STEM classrooms with the action plans you'll create during the WomenTech Educators Training.
I'm so excited to tell you about the upcoming WomenTech Educators National Institute, a unique live WomenTech Educators Training targeted for the first time to administrators who want to focus on big picture strategies that will affect all of your STEM programs.
Whether you're a principal, dean, department chair, state-level administrator or other education leader, this training is a special opportunity to learn how to enroll up to 25-50% female students across your STEM programs and to ensure high retention rates for female AND male students.
You Will Learn:
Females in STEM: Key Factors for Recruitment
✓ Top three recruitment strategies & how to put them to use
✓ How to adopt a program-wide "female friendly" recruitment approach
✓ How to communicate the benefits of STEM at each stage of the recruitment process
✓ Effective strategies to involve faculty & staff in your recruiting effort
Gender Diversity in STEM: Boosting Enrollment & Implementing New Culture
✓ Barriers to recruiting women into STEM & how to overcome them
✓ How to identify your target audience for recruitment and low-hanging fruit
✓ Success in STEM: See actionable examples of successful STEM programs
Strategies to Keep STEM Students on Course & Improve Graduation Rates
✓ How to make female students feel welcome and what not to do
✓ Ways to bolster confidence in STEM students to ensure success
✓ Strategies to help your female students be successful in the lab
✓ Building block skills to help close the experience gap
Addressing the STEM Challenge: Appeal to Women Who Aren't Excited by STEM
✓ How faculty can teach to female learning styles
✓ How to connect students with female role models & create community
✓ An "ah-ha" moment on spatial reasoning - what you need to know
Build a Leadership Team Model for Women in STEM: Strategies for Success
✓ Ways to partner with faculty, administrators, student services & others
✓ No educator is an island: How to work together & boost STEM retention
✓ Top 3 qualities of an effective Leadership Team & how to employ them
Download the sample training agenda (PDF)
Download a letter to gain support (DOC)
You Will Take Away:
- An easy-to-implement recruitment plan to greatly increase the number of women and girls in your STEM classrooms.
- A retention plan for your school to increase the completion rate of your female (and male students), starting this semester.
- The knowledge and confidence you need to put these plans into action right away, and free bonus tools that will help you be even more successful. (See FREE Takeaways below.)
- Plus: A certificate of completion from IWITTS and the option for a unit of continuing education credit from Fresno Pacific University.
Customized Plan Feedback from Donna:
Donna Milgram is committed to helping educational institutions achieve success through effective implementation of these strategies. Between her roles as Principal Investigator of 2 National Science Foundation projects, WomenTech Educators Trainer, national keynote speaker, and gender equity expert, she keeps a packed schedule. But because of her dedication to helping educators increase the number of women in STEM programs, for a limited time she has set aside extra time to provide Customized Plan Feedback to 3 schools following the National Training Institute. This additional support consists of 2 live tele-calls with Donna. During the first call, she will give detailed feedback on the recruitment and retention action plans you develop at the National Training Institute. Then, after you have incorporated trainer feedback, you will have the opportunity to go over your revised plans with Donna during a second call. Once you achieve results in increasing the number of female students in your programs, your success may be featured in case studies or webinars to highlight your accomplishments while inspiring other educators!
Contact us today to discuss adding Donna's Customized Plan Feedback to your National Training Institute registration. This is a valuable opportunity, available for a limited time only, to just 3 institutions - so don't delay!
What Educators Are Saying About the Training:
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"I left the training feeling equipped and empowered with the necessary tools to improve female performance and success in STEM programs." ~ Timothy Brown, Department Chair of Mathematics, Georgia Perimeter College, Dunwoody, GA |
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"Last year, the Computer Science department held an Open House event for prospective students. Although a few female high school students came, none of our female faculty members could attend and there weren't any women there representing the department. After attending the workshop with IWITTS, I was committed to making sure that didn't happen again. At this year's Open House, the College of Sciences held a special Women in Technology event in partnership with the College of Engineering. The girls who came had a great experience, they learned a lot, and I'm confident that it strengthened their resolve to pursue careers in science and engineering. Our goal is to have enough female students in science and engineering majors so that the process can become self-reinforcing." |
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"In my division, we had about 200 students and only five of them were female. I have three daughters myself, and I really wanted to get more women interested in these technically oriented careers. I didn't realize initially that our programs may not have been welcoming for female students. Now, an important benefit that we've gotten from working with IWITTS is to have increased the number of female educators in the division. We're working together to recruit more female students, and to give them better support. We want to achieve a critical mass of female students in the classroom, so these numbers can become self-perpetuating." ~ Virgil Cox, Dean of Engineering & Industrial Technology, Gaston College, Dallas, NC |
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"Thank you so much for the information you presented. The manner in which you did so was easy to understand and comprehend. The fact that we were able to create plans to implement at our institution were helpful; especially since we were able to receive input immediately from our peers. This certainly allowed my partner and I to adjust our plans given others input and perspectives. Again, thank you!!." ~ Edda Urrea, Director of Support Services/Title IX Coordinator, Texas State Technical College Harlingen, Harlingen, TX |
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"Completely made me re-evaluate the approach that we have been taking. I realized the many mistakes and plan to make changes that I learned from the training. Great information!" ~ Hector Yanez, Department Chair/CADD Manager of Computer Drafting and Design Technology, Texas State Technical College, Harlingen, TX |
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"The training conducted by Donna Milgram was the best training I have ever received because I can implement the recruitment and retention plans I created specifically for my program Computer Information Management (CIM) to help increase females in technology at Irvine Valley College!" ~ Roopa Mathur, Professor, Computer Information Management, Irvine Valley College, Irvine, CA |
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"A lot of people, including me before I met Donna, do a lot of things that aren't necessarily recruitment, they're career awareness tools. People think if you put up a flyer that will solve the problem. Donna really taught us proven techniques to grow the program." ~ Edie Schmidt, Professor, Technology Leadership and Innovation/Supply Chain Management Technology, College of Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
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"Participating in the IWITTS training refined my skills as an instructor and administrator to be an agent of change in this realm. Because Computer Networking and Information Technology was not on the radar of many women, the tools that were given to us by IWITTS for reaching out to students for our entry level class were very effective. And those changes have been institutionalized in my department. Thanks to our work with IWITTS, female enrollment in my department has risen from 19% to 33%." ~ Pierre Thiry, Principal Investigator, Mid-Pacific ICT Regional Center, San Francisco, CA (ATE Center) |
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Event Details At-A-Glance:
Event: WomenTech Educators Training
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California
Dates: June 11 & 12, 2015
Schedule: Thursday, June 11: 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Friday, June 12: 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Airport: San Francisco International Airport (SFO) or Oakland Airport (OAK)
Hotel: The event will be held at one of our favorite San Francisco Bay Area hotels, a beautiful Sheraton with a specially reduced event room rate.
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| Individual registration |
$600 per participant |
| Teams of three or more | $450 per participant |
| Team registration + Customized Plan Feedback from Donna (Limited availability) | Contact us |
Continuing Education Credit:
Fresno Pacific University is now offering one unit of continuing education credit to training participants!
Two FREE Gifts When You Register Now:
Women in Technology Outreach Kit ($150 value)
This Outreach Kit plus the included Online Website Strategy Guide will help you increase the number of women in your school's technology programs. Recruit more women to your STEM programs with these fill-in-the blank templates for proven outreach materials. You'll take the guesswork out of your outreach.
STEM Resources for Instructors to Help Women and Girls: Annotated Bibliography ($35 value)
We've made it easy for you to find online role model resources that will help women and girls see themselves in all career pathways. Also, find sample curriculums and websites that teach programming in a female-friendly way. Don't miss this; it will save you many hours of researching this yourself.
I am so excited to see you at our National Training Institute LIVE!
Warmly,
Donna Milgram
Executive Director, The National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science
About Your Trainer: Donna Milgram
Learn directly from Executive Director Donna Milgram, the creator of the WomenTech Educators Training
Donna Milgram is the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS), a national nonprofit organization founded in 1994 that provides educators with a roadmap to increasing the number of women and girls in science, technology, engineering and math.
- Ms. Milgram developed the WomenTech Educators Training to help educators nationwide increase the number of women in their technology programs.
- A nationally recognized expert on closing the gender gap for women and girls in STEM, Ms. Milgram has personally conducted hundreds of WomenTech Educators Trainings in 46 states and Canada.
- She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and conference presentations including the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and Women in Engineering Proactive Network (WEPAN). Presentation highlights from 2014 include:
- U.S. Department of Education, Moving STEM Forward in the Career, Technical and Adult Symposium;
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Challenging Technical Privilege Symposium Panel; and,
- Engineering for Kids Conference (Keynote Presenter)
- Donna has been featured in the media on CNN, Fox Morning News, C-Span, and National Public Radio, and has been quoted in major newspapers such as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, and more.
- An innovative leader, Donna Milgram draws upon over 21 years of experience leading successful projects. The recent CalWomenTech Project was highlighted by the National Science Foundation for demonstrating significant achievement and program effectiveness and chosen as 1 of 3 model projects by the American Association of University Women.
Women in Automotive Outreach KitThis limited-edition kit will help you create a welcoming environment that celebrates women in auto at your school |
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It’s easier than you may think to get women and girls excited about automotive technology. With these ready-to-go posters, banners and video, you can hit the ground running and start increasing the number of women and girls in your auto tech programs right away. Order the whole kit to receive the discount. You can also order any individual item at the regular price. There are only six of these special outreach kits available for purchase as part of this Deal of the Month, so order your kit now before they sell out.
Women in Automotive Outreach Kit includes:
- 10 Women in Automotive Technology Unlimited Potential Posters (22” x 17”)
- 2 Women in Automotive Technology Banners (6’ x 2’)
- Role Model Video: Automotive
Deal of the Month: Save 15%
Save now until August 31, 2016
Women in Auto Outreach Kit: $544 $462
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Note: Shipping and handling for this special kit may take up to two weeks.
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 10 Women in Automotive Posters |
Automotive Technology Unlimited Potential Poster: Customizable for your program Hang this poster around your school's classrooms, counseling offices and hallways to recruit women and girls to your automotive technology program by imprinting images of successful female role models in automotive technology around your campus. Plus, add your school's program contact information and logo to each poster! Special offer: There are only six sets of automotive technology poster available, so order your kit before they sell out. This poster is normally only available as part of a set of six Unlimited Potential posters that features six different career pathways including: Women in Engineering Technology, Women in Construction, Women in Green Jobs, Women in Manufacturing, Women in Technology. |
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Two Role Model Banners: Women in Automotive These banners will help make your career events more appealing to female students. Hang these two banners year-round in your school's classrooms and hallways to send the message that women can succeed in automotive technology. Plus we have six other banners in different career areas, including Women in Manufacturing and Women in Technology. |
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Three dynamic women who have staked out successful careers in the automotive industry will inspire your female students to explore new career pathways. Female role models help get this career on the radar of women and girls because female students are able to see someone who looks like them on the job. The video reveals the personal experiences and insights of women working as a truck driver, an auto technician, and an apprentice auto mechanic.
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Attend the WomenTech Educators Online Training to Learn How You Can Gain up to 25-50% Female STEM Enrollment in Just One Year |
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NSF-funded Online Training
Starts October 3, 2016
Community colleges that have implemented the strategies participants learn through this program have seen remarkable results: 5 of 7 colleges started enrolling an average of 4.8 more female students in their STEM courses and 6 of 7 increased female retention from an average baseline of 58% to 100% in only 8 months.
Application Deadline: September 16, 2016
This NSF-funded program is FREE for teams of 6-10 community college STEM educators connected with an ATE Project/Center. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling admissions basis and the training fills quickly, so apply early.
This NSF-funded Online Training is free to ATE grantees and
STEM faculty in 2-year colleges (see left for who should apply).
▸ What Educators Are Saying About the Training
Tools to Gain Support from Your Colleagues:
Download a sample letter (DOC)
Download WomenTech Educators Online Training Brochure (PDF)
Download a sample "Join My Team" letter (DOC)
Source: Participants in WomenTech Educators Online Training. External evaluator's report to the National Science Foundation for the CalWomenTech Scale-Up Project.
 Attend the WomenTech Educators Training from the comfort of your own desk. Females in STEM: Key Factors for Recruitment ✓ Top three recruitment strategies & how to put them to use Gender Diversity in STEM: Boosting Enrollment & Implementing New Culture Strategies to Keep STEM Students on Course & Improve Graduation Rates Addressing the STEM Challenge: Appeal to Women Who Aren't Excited by STEM Build a Leadership Team Model for Women in STEM: Strategies for Success Download a sample letter to gain support (DOC). |
You Will Take Away:
- An easy-to-implement recruitment plan to greatly increase the number of women and girls in your STEM classrooms.
- A retention plan for your school to increase the completion rate of your female (and male students), starting this semester.
- The knowledge and confidence you need to put these plans into action right away, and free bonus tools that will help you be even more successful. (See Bonuses section below.).
- Results: Community colleges that have implemented the strategies participants learn through this program have seen remarkable results: 5 of 7 colleges started enrolling an average of 4.8 more female students in their STEM courses and 6 of 7 increased female retention from an average baseline of 58% to 100% in only 8 months.
Training starts October 3, 2016. Apply Now
Time period: 1-week orientation, 5 weeks on recruitment
(Oct 10 - Nov 13), 4 weeks on retention (Nov 14 - Dec 18), and 1-week break for Thanksgiving holiday.
Hours required: 1 hour per week + developing YOUR recruitment and retention action plans.
Training format: Presentations, handouts & exercises online, available to watch and complete at your convenience each week.
Live Calls with Your Trainer: Including Question & Answer, Team-Building Orientation, Module #1 Laser Coaching, and Recruitment and Retention Plan Feedback Calls.
Archives: All calls and sessions recorded and emailed out the next day.
Support on Recruitment and Retention Plan implementation after the training ends.
Continuing Education Credit:
Fresno Pacific University is now offering one unit of continuing education credit to online training participants! Note: You can sign up for the continuing education credit starting four weeks in advance of training.
Team Support Calls and Customized Feedback led to AMAZING results from the online training in 2015!
We’ve unlocked the proven path to increasing the number of female students in your STEM program. Community colleges in our National Science Foundation-funded February 2015 online training group have seen remarkable results: 5 of 7 colleges started enrolling an average of 4.8 more female students in their STEM courses and 6 of 7 increased female retention from an average baseline of 58% to 100% in only 8 months.
Including...
A Georgia community college that went from only 1 female student in an introductory Emerging Technology course to 15 of 17 students just one semester after the online training.
A Massachusetts community college that went from 1 female student in manufacturing to 9 out of 13 students in its introductory course the next semester. Plus, 100% of the female students were retained!
NEVER let anyone tell you again that nothing can be done, or that making change happen for female students in your STEM program will take decades or require a huge budget. We have the evidence to prove your institution can start seeing real increases in as little as one year!
The WomenTech Educators Training is designed to provide you with a roadmap that will enable you to achieve your goals and because you get access to Follow-Up Support calls after the online training, you will receive support for implementation of your plan strategies. We are committed to helping educators succeed in creating a gender balance in STEM. Once you have achieved results in increasing the number of female students in your programs, you may be featured in case studies or webinars to highlight your team’s accomplishments while inspiring other educators!
After the WomenTech Educators Online Training Program: Follow-Up Support
Keep online training participants and your educational institution as a whole focused on your goal of increasing the number of women in STEM. With this ongoing support, you'll receive help as you work to improve and implement the Recruitment and Retention Plans that you develop during the training. In our successful CalWomenTech Project, the external evaluators found that along with the training, support for implementation was one of the top 2 most important things that helped schools achieve their impressive recruitment and retention results.
You will receive:
You'll have direct access to your trainer, Donna Milgram, on live team Immediate Plan Feedback Tele-Calls. You'll meet by phone with Donna in the weeks immediately following the online training. She'll give "focused advising" and personalized feedback on your team's strategic plans, and answer questions during each 1-hour call. You will have the opportunity to sign up for a call with just your team and Donna. The Follow-Up Support will end with a group call where all teams present on their plans and implementation progress. Colleges that have received this type of Follow-Up Support have found that it was extremely effective in moving them from plan to action, and ultimately helping them see significant gains in the number of women in their STEM classrooms. All calls are recorded and emailed to participants.
All of the educators who attend the online training will be granted access to a private members-only online course in Canvas -- an open source learning management system. Our online learning community in Canvas is a place to receive support, additional resources, and space to work together with other training participants to share documents and progress on plan implementation. Be a member of our community whose culture is one of positive change around increasing the number of women in STEM. The culture of our online community is, "We can do it!"
This NSF-funded training is free to ATE grantees and
STEM faculty in 2-year colleges (see below for who should apply).
Two FREE Gifts When You Enroll Your Team Now:
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Hard to Find Women in STEM Classroom Resources:We've made it easy for educators to find online role model resources that will help women and girls see themselves in all career pathways. Also, this downloadable guide includes sample curriculums and websites that teach STEM in a female-friendly way. Don't miss this; it will save STEM educators many hours of researching on their own. Sample Resource: Dot Divas are young women that believe in the potential of computing to make a better world. The Dot Diva website offers female role model profiles, examples of how computing can be used in many careers, and a webisode video featuring a young female role model. Parents and educators can find advice for talking to young women about computing, messages and images that work to spark their interest, downloadable recruitment materials (a Dot Diva poster, brochure, and flyer), and female role model videos on YouTube. |
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Women in Technology Outreach Kit:It's challenging to develop outreach materials that really work to recruit women to STEM! To help schools we have developed this easy-to-use kit with examples and templates for Women in STEM program brochure, program flyer, event flyer, recruitment PowerPoint presentation, and school website section that all include female role models. These materials were tested with 8 schools that were successful in recruiting more female students to STEM. The female role model questionnaire alone is worth its weight in gold with the key questions and follow up questions to ask those hard-to-find female role models and how to elicit an inspirational quote from a women in STEM. Based on hundreds of interviews with STEM stars, you won’t want to miss this. |
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"For a long time, we heard from educators, 'Well, we can't find any girls who WANT to be welders'- but now, there's an increased perception that supporting female students in male-dominated careers is a much bigger deal, and there are resources available that can give all students a better ability to explore and pursue their interests. IWITTS materials like the STEM bibliography and Outreach Kit are a huge part of the resources we can offer to districts to help them serve their students. It's not just about Perkins compliance anymore." |
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This NSF-funded Online Training program is free to ATE grantees and
STEM faculty in 2-year colleges (see below for who should apply).
About Your Trainer: Donna Milgram
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Learn directly from Executive Director Donna Milgram, the creator of the WomenTech Educators Training |
Donna Milgram is the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS), a national nonprofit organization founded in 1994 that provides educators with a roadmap to increasing the number of women and girls in science, technology, engineering and math.
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NSF-Funded WomenTech Educators Online Training FAQs:
Who is eligible?
College-based teams consisting of administrators, instructors, counselors and outreach staff from STEM programs where female students are underrepresented. Teams should consist of 6-10 members. Preference will be given to teams connected with an ATE Center or Project. Watch the webinar for more information on applying as a team and who should be on your team.
How much does it cost?
This grant-funded program is FREE to eligible participants, as part of the National Science Foundation-funded National Online WomenTech Project. This program, including the online training, Follow-Up Support, and access to the online learning community normally costs participants $5,700 per team.
What are the benefits of participating?
What is the #1 benefit? More female students in your classes! Here are some additional benefits to you if your team is accepted for the WomenTech Educators Online Training Program:
- Get significant value: You can reach a team of 6-10 educators at your college, without incurring any travel costs.
- Accommodate everyone's busy schedule, from deans and administrators to part-time adjuncts, with this 11-week training.
- Your team can implement what they're learning while the training is actually happening, and get guidance and direction from your trainer, Donna Milgram, and the other members of the community.
- If you are an ATE grantee, this training will strengthen the "Broader Impacts" you report to NSF.
- IWITTS has included past training recipients who have successfully increased the number of women in their classes in national conference presentations.
- Your achievements in increasing the number of women in your classes may be highlighted by IWITTS as case studies to inspire other educators and for your own future use.
- The top Women in STEM Recruitment and Retention Plans in the training will be chosen by your trainer Donna Milgram. The selected plans will be featured in the private online learning community and an email will be sent to the dean/VP of each team that develops a top plan recognizing your team's achievement.
- Certificate of completion: At the end of the implementation period, each team member will receive a certificate which can be referenced in your future grant proposals.
What's expected of my team?
- Taking part in the WomenTech Educators Online Training Program as a team of 6-10 members from your college (includes a team orientation call, 11-week online training, and a total of 4 Follow-Up Support calls, 2 of which are Plan Feedback Tele-calls).
- Developing Recruitment and Retention Plans as a team for the targeted program, and posting plans in a private online learning community.
- Actively participating in the Follow-Up Support for plan implementation, which takes place in the 6 months after the online training ends, and a short, virtual presentation on the team's plan implementation progress in a required, final group call.
- Posting successes and challenges in the online learning community, and responding to the posts of others.
- Participating in evaluation-related activities (no individual student data will be requested).
How to Apply:
- Get started - Submit an Intent to Apply to get your application started. The date you submit your Intent to Apply will be the start date on your application, so submit early to get your application in before other teams! (Note: You don't have to have all your team members identified to submit an Intent to Apply.)
- Watch a short webinar - You'll receive more information when you fill out the Intent to Apply. This webinar will help you put together your team and submit a competitive application. It's required for all applicants and the online application will ask you to confirm that you watched the webinar.
- Create a team of 6-10 members, pick a team name (e.g. Greenville Technical College Engineering Department or "ATE Project Name" team) and select a key contact for the application process.
- Complete individual online applications before the September 16, 2016 deadline - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X3Z37JG (Note: Each team member must be identified at this point and must submit her/his own online application. There will be a place to enter your team name in the form.)
- Obtain a letter of commitment - Have your dean or supervisor sign a letter of commitment (PDF). Return the signed letter by fax (510-749-0500) or email to seminars[at]iwitts.org. (Note: Each team member must submit a signed letter of commitment from her/his dean/supervisor. If you are unable to submit the signed letter of commitment by the application deadline, go ahead and apply anyway. Contact us at seminars[at]iwitts.org and we will try accommodate you.)
More information:
For additional information about the NSF-funded WomenTech Educators Online Training Program, contact us at seminars[at]iwitts.org or call Christine Lesaca, Program Coordinator, at 510-749-0200 ext 105.
Free: Leadership Team Webinar for Your WomenTech Educators Online Training Application
In This Free Webinar You Will Learn:
✓ About successful outcomes of schools that have participated in the WomenTech Educators trainings in the past
✓ What's included in the NSF-funded WomenTech Educators Online Training Program
✓ How to put together a strong WomenTech Educators Leadership Team and apply for this free NSF-funded program
✓ How to choose a STEM Career Pathway to focus on in the training
✓ How your team can set you up to be successful and help you institutionalize takeaways from this proven program
✓ Answers to questions asked during our live sessions by educators applying for the program
You Will Take Away:
The vital information you need to create a competitive application for our limited number of NSF-funded WomenTech Educators Online Training Program seats! Applications for this training program are reviewed and scored on a first-come, first-served basis.
This webinar will help you create a competitive application and set your team up for greater success. Start your application today to get access details for the webinar, so you can watch it at your convenience and share it with potential team members.
This NSF-funded Online Training is free to ATE grantees and
STEM faculty in 2-year colleges (see above for who should apply).
What Educators Are Saying About the Training:
"The training was time well spent. It was such a minimal amount of time to get so many concrete implementable strategies. The WomenTech Educators Online Training gives you the most for your money—you can implement the tools immediately with minimal resources and see true quantitative results!"
~ Phyllis Baca, Director of STEM Initiatives, Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM
"We have the first three women in our Auto Technology Program and really want to make sure they succeed. After participating in the WomenTech Educator's online training, we created additional open lab time for them, realizing they may need extra time to develop hands-on skills in a nonthreatening atmosphere. Two months into the course they are still with us. I learned so much about retention from the online training, I decided our entire Engineering and Technology Department could benefit and we are bringing the online training to our school and rolling it out to all of the technical faculty over the next two years."
~ Van Madray, Dean of Construction and Industrial Technology Division, Pitt Community College, Winterville, NC
"Attending the WomenTech Educators training was the best decision I have made in a long time! During the training, I developed a Recruitment and Retention Plan for one of the CIS programs. This is not a training where you consider doing "something" when you get back to your office, you are actually developing and obtaining feedback from other colleagues on what they have done and how you can improve your plan before implementation! Plus, I will be able to take my experience and work on other programs of study using the same framework."
~ Edna Quintana Claus, Ph.D., M.B.A., CIS Division Director, Texas State Technical College Harlingen, Harlingen, TX
"The online training was very manageable because it was asynchronous. I'm always teaching an overload, but you watch the training videos at your leisure, and participate as you're able. Because of that I was able to integrate the training into my very busy schedule."
~ Dr. Cynthia V. Marcello, Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems, SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake, NY
"I learned a lot of new methods and perspectives on retention I did not have before and I've already started making changes on how I do things here at my school! The WomenTech Educators Online Training was a content-filled and highly informative training program."
~ Antigone Sharris, Full-time Faculty & Program Coordinator, Engineering Technology Program, Triton College, River Grove, IL
See the full list of testimonials
Here are just some of our past ATE clients:
- Consortium for Alabama Regional Center for Automotive Manufacturing (CARCAM), Gadsden, AL
- Midwest Center for Information Technology (MCIT), AIM Institute, Omaha, NE
- South Carolina Advanced Technological Education National Resource Center for Engineering Technology Education (SC ATE), Florence-Darlington Technical College, Florence, SC
- Convergence Technology Center (CTC), Frisco, TX
- Technology and Innovation in Manufacturing Education Center (TIME Center), Baltimore, MD
- Nevada Information Technology Education (NVITE), Community College of Southern Nevada, North Las Vegas, NV
- Center for the Advancement of Process Technology (CAPT), Mainland College, Texas City, TX
- Diversity in Engineering Technology (NC JETS), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
There are a limited number of NSF-funded WomenTech Educators Online Training Program spaces available.
This NSF-funded Online Training program is free to ATE grantees and
STEM faculty in 2-year colleges (see above for who should apply).
The National Online WomenTech Project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education Program from The National Science Foundation - Grant no. 1400531
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*Enhanced* WomenTech Educators Online Training
Don't miss out on this valuable opportunity to have outcomes like the colleges that attended our recent Online Training:
- 5 of 7 colleges started enrolling an average of 4.8 more female students in their STEM courses
- 6 of 7 colleges increased female retention from an average baseline of 58% to 100% in only 8 months
In this video, your trainer Donna Milgram shares 3 best practices for effective outreach events – and what not to do – so you can get started recruiting more women to STEM:
▸ What Educators Are Saying About the Training
Tools to Gain Support from Your Colleagues:
Download a Sample Letter (DOC)
Download WomenTech Educators Online Training Brochure (PDF)
Download a Sample "Join My Team" Letter (DOC)
Source: Participants in WomenTech Educators Online Training. External evaluator's report to the National Science Foundation for the CalWomenTech Scale-Up Project.
Attend the WomenTech Educators Training from the comfort of your own desk.
Females in STEM: Key Factors for Recruitment
✓ Top 3 recruitment strategies & how to put them to use
✓ How to adopt a program-wide “female friendly” recruitment approach
✓ How to communicate the benefits of STEM at each stage of the recruitment process
✓ Effective strategies to involve faculty & staff in your recruiting effort
Gender Diversity in STEM: Boosting Enrollment & Implementing New Culture
✓ Barriers to recruiting women into STEM & how to overcome them
✓ How to identify your target audience for recruitment and low-hanging fruit
✓ Success in STEM: See actionable examples of successful STEM programs
Strategies to Keep STEM Students on Course & Improve Graduation Rates
✓ How to make female students feel welcome and what not to do
✓ Ways to bolster confidence in STEM students to ensure success
✓ Strategies to help your female students be successful in the lab
✓ Building block skills to help close the experience gap
Addressing the STEM Challenge: Appeal to Women Who Aren't Excited by STEM
✓ How faculty can teach to female learning styles
✓ How to connect students with female role models & create community
✓ An "ah-ha" moment on spatial reasoning - what you need to know
Build a Leadership Team Model for Women in STEM: Strategies for Success
✓ Ways to partner with faculty, administrators, student services & others
✓ No educator is an island: How to work together & boost STEM retention
✓ Top 3 qualities of an effective Leadership Team & how to employ them
Download WomenTech Educators Online Training Brochure (PDF)
You Will Take Away:
- An easy-to-implement Recruitment Plan to greatly increase the number of women and girls in your STEM classrooms.
- A Retention Plan for your school to increase the completion rate of your female (and male students), starting this semester.
- The knowledge and confidence you need to put these plans into action right away, and free bonus tools that will help you be even more successful. (See Bonuses section below.)
- A final presentation highlighting your successful outcomes which you can use to garner additional support.
- Optional: Participants may receive one unit of continuing education credit from Fresno Pacific University.
Your Institution Can Achieve Results Like These:
✓ A Georgia community college went from only 1 female student in an introductory Emerging Technology course to 15 females out of 17 students the next semester.
✓ A Massachusetts community college went from 1 female student in its introductory Manufacturing class to 9 females out of 13 students the next semester. Plus, 100% of both female and male students were retained!
Training Schedule and What's Included:
Time period: 1-week Orientation, 5 weeks on Recruitment, 1-week Break, and 5 weeks on Retention.
Hours required: 1 hour per week asynchronous, high quality video modules + 1 hour meeting as a team to develop YOUR school’s Recruitment and Retention Action Plans
Team building during the orientation week call
Target audience laser coaching call during week 1 to help your team get this critical first step right
2 Recruitment and Retention Plan Feedback Calls per team
Support for Implementation Call 3 months out and unlimited email support
Virtual presentation report on outcomes by all teams at 6-month mark
Total of 5.5 hours of Customized Feedback per team
Each team receives transcripts and recordings of all coaching calls
Continuing Education Credit:
Fresno Pacific University is now offering one unit of continuing education credit to online training participants! Note: You can sign up for the continuing education credit starting 4 weeks in advance of training.
The Power of Teams:
Teams communicate as a single voice during the program. Team members join together weekly to synthesize and apply the information into a group assignment; assignments build to create full Recruitment and Retention Action Plans during the training. To achieve these results, each team is required to focus on one career pathway which can be scaled and/or replicated later on.
What WomenTech Educator Participants Said About Their Teams in the Training:
“We have a fabulous team. So many people have different varied areas of expertise. We meet Wednesday mornings and everybody is energized and works hard.”
~ Patti Williams, Faculty, Surveying & Mapping Technologies, Mid-west College
Who Should Be on Your Team:
To be most effective, each team consists of a group of 6-10 members with a variety of stakeholders. Below are the recommended core team members (not every team will have every job title!):
- Dean or Chair of the Department of the targeted program (recommended)
- Director of the Technology Center (or equivalent)
- Principal Investigator of grant (if applicable)
- Dean of Instruction
- Minimum of two instructors in targeted courses (highly recommended)
- Math administrator (if your core targeted courses have math prerequisites)
- Outreach & Recruitment Director/Staff
- Curriculum Developer
- STEM Coordinator
- Learning Center Director/Staff
- Counselor/Advisor
- Workforce Development Director
- Research & Planning Officer
Download a Sample "Join My Team" Letter (DOC)
New Team Support Calls and Customized Feedback led to AMAZING results from the Online Training in 2015!
We’ve unlocked the proven path to increasing the number of female students in your STEM program. Community colleges in our National Science Foundation-funded February 2015 Online Training group have seen remarkable results: 5 of 7 colleges started enrolling an average of 4.8 more female students in their STEM courses and 6 of 7 increased female retention from an average baseline of 58% to 100% in only 8 months.
Including...
A Georgia community college that went from only 1 female student in an introductory Emerging Technology course to 15 of 17 students just one semester after the Online Training.
A Massachusetts community college that went from 1 female student in manufacturing to 9 out of 13 students in its introductory course the next semester. Plus, 100% of the female students were retained!
NEVER let anyone tell you again that nothing can be done, or that making change happen for female students in your STEM program will take decades or require a huge budget. We have the evidence to prove your institution can start seeing real increases in as little as one year!
In light of these groundbreaking results, I’ve updated the WomenTech Educators Online Training so that all schools get the same benefits as our successful NSF-funded model. I'm excited to announce that we can now provide this same level of support for your school--your team will be getting access to 6 new calls with me, significantly more individualized feedback, and help with the implementation of your plans in the 6 months after the online training ends. Plus your team now gets an orientation call and a Laser Coaching Call on the #1 most important aspect of your Recruitment Plan. I know this proven model can help your team see the same kinds of successful results that as schools in our NSF-funded Online Training!
This training is designed to provide you with a roadmap that will enable you to achieve your goals and because the training is over 11 weeks, you will receive support for implementation of your plan strategies.
We are committed to helping educators succeed in creating a gender balance in STEM. Once you have achieved results in increasing the number of female students in your programs, you may be featured in case studies or webinars to highlight your team’s accomplishments while inspiring other educators!
Have more questions? Sign Up to Talk with Donna Milgram about the WomenTech Educators Online Training
Online Training and Customized Feedback Provided by Donna Milgram:
Learn directly from Executive Director Donna Milgram, the creator of the WomenTech Educators Training
Donna Milgram is Executive Director of the Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS) and has been Principal Investigator on 5 National Science Foundation (NSF) grants – including the CalWomenTech Project, which was highlighted by the NSF for demonstrating significant achievement and program effectiveness and chosen as 1 of 3 model projects nationally by the American Association of University Women.
- Ms. Milgram developed the WomenTech Educators Training to help educators nationwide increase the number of women in their technology programs.
- A nationally recognized expert on closing the gender gap for women and girls in STEM, Ms. Milgram has personally conducted hundreds of WomenTech Educators Trainings in 46 states and Canada.
- She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and conference presentations including the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and Women in Engineering Proactive Network (WEPAN). Recent presentation highlights include:
- U.S. Department of Education, Moving STEM Forward in the Career, Technical and Adult Symposium;
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Challenging Technical Privilege Symposium Panel; and,
- Engineering for Kids Conference (Keynote Presenter).
- Donna has been featured in the media on CNN, Fox Morning News, C-Span, and National Public Radio, and has been quoted in major newspapers such as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, and more.
- An innovative leader, Donna Milgram draws upon over 21 years of experience leading successful projects, such as the NSF-highlighted CalWomenTech Project.
Sign Up to Talk with Donna Milgram about the WomenTech Educators Online Training
What Educators Are Saying About the Training:
"The training was time well spent. It was such a minimal amount of time to get so many concrete implementable strategies. The WomenTech Educators Online Training gives you the most for your money—you can implement the tools immediately with minimal resources and see true quantitative results!"
~ Phyllis Baca, Director of STEM Initiatives, Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM
"We have the first three women in our Auto Technology Program and really want to make sure they succeed. After participating in the WomenTech Educator's Online Training, we created additional open lab time for them, realizing they may need extra time to develop hands-on skills in a nonthreatening atmosphere. Two months into the course they are still with us. I learned so much about retention from the online training, I decided our entire Engineering and Technology Department could benefit and we are bringing the online training to our school and rolling it out to all of the technical faculty over the next two years."
~ Van Madray, Dean of Construction and Industrial Technology Division, Pitt Community College, Winterville, NC
"Attending the WomenTech Educators training was the best decision I have made in a long time! During the training, I developed a Recruitment and Retention Plan for one of the CIS programs. This is not a training where you consider doing "something" when you get back to your office, you are actually developing and obtaining feedback from other colleagues on what they have done and how you can improve your plan before implementation! Plus, I will be able to take my experience and work on other programs of study using the same framework."
~ Edna Quintana Claus, Ph.D., M.B.A., CIS Division Director, Texas State Technical College Harlingen, Harlingen, TX
"The WomenTech Educators Online Training has the potential to change the way you view your program. Important data is presented with passion and humor. I want you to know I have gained a great deal from the course. By the time you have a graduate degree and have worked in education for decades, most "professional development" is repetitive. I can honestly say that you have given me much to think about and that it will result in changes to my approach to course development."
~ Lauran Sattler, Department Chair, Computer Information Systems, Ivy Tech Community College, President's Award for Instructional Excellence 2007, Warsaw, IN
"The online training was very manageable because it was asynchronous. I'm always teaching an overload, but you watch the training videos at your leisure, and participate as you're able. Because of that I was able to integrate the training into my very busy schedule."
~ Dr. Cynthia V. Marcello, Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems, SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake, NY
"I learned a lot of new methods and perspectives on retention I did not have before and I've already started making changes on how I do things here at my school! The WomenTech Educators Online Training was a content-filled and highly informative training program."
~ Antigone Sharris, Full-time Faculty & Program Coordinator, Engineering Technology Program, Triton College, River Grove, IL
See the Full List of Testimonials
Bonuses Included with the WomenTech Educators Online Training:
Women in STEM Bibliography for Educators ($350 value)
Instantly access hard to find women in STEM classroom resources and online role model resources that will help women and girls see themselves in all career pathways. This downloadable guide includes sample curricula and websites that teach STEM in a female-friendly way.
Women in Technology Outreach Kit ($1,500 value)
This easy-to-use downloadable kit has examples and fill-in-the-blank templates for program brochures, flyers, recruitment presentations, and school website sections that all include female role models. The female role model questionnaire has all the proven questions to ask your role models.
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