Month: December 2013

Girls Take Charge

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How can you argue with a name like “Girls Take Charge“?

Info from their web site:

Girls Take Charge is a national award winning program focused on helping young women achieve their goals and dreams.

We aim to inspire and empower collegiate, high school, and middle school age girls to become self-confident, leaders in their schools, on the field, in their organizations and communities.

They hold leadership conferences at select cities for college women and teen girls as well as summer programs.

Check out their web site and find out more.

Girl Rising

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Last night I had an incredible experience viewing the film Girl Rising at the Columbus School for Girls at an event sponsored by The Women’s Fund of Central Ohio. The tag line for the movement is “Educate girls and you will change the world”   so you know I was already hooked before the film started.

The film gives voice to nine girls through storytelling that gives us a glimpse into their lives, sometimes it was hard to hear and see, but through it all they were so determined and dedicated to being educated and growing that you were in awe of their perseverance and resilience.  Interspersed with their individual stories were statistics about girls and education and how poorly we are doing in educating young women.

65 million girls are out of school globally.
EFA Global Monitoring Report, 2012.

The movement has started to bring this to light and the film starts the conversation about how we can all be involved.  Check out the web site and give me your thoughts on how we can take the next step.

A Legacy of Innovation and Inspiration

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Recently the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University hosted the Barbara K. Fergus Women in Leadership Lecture titled: A Legacy of Innovation and Inspiration.  Three extraordinary women shared the stage  giving  ideas to inspire the next generation of women in STEM.

You can view their presentation using the link below:

Watch the video

Take aways for me included:

  • a new term STEMinist – voices of women in science, tech, engineering and math
  • Reminder about the importance of a growth mindset – using failures to learn and persist
  • Ties between the Maker movement and STEM

Let me know your thoughts about this event and how we can work together to encourage our next generation of STEMinists.