Texas Women and Girls in STEM Summit
Concurrent Sessions #1
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m

Hosted in Zoom - See all presentations on the YouTube Playlist for Concurrent Sessions (adding as received from presenters)
 

Asteroid Explorers! NASA ROADS on Asteroids Student Challenge
Presentation Slides

Participants will learn how to execute the 2021 ROADS on Asteroids student challenge as an afterschool girls STEM program. Participants will leave with material to begin integrating the student challenge into their afterschool  program, the challenge manual, and access to hands-on curriculum activities so they can incorporate the student challenge. Participants will also leave with an understanding of each individual challenges and how to implement them in their program setting. Participants will take home a personal copy of the ROADS on Asteroids manual and six challenge activities.

  • Celena Miller, Senior Education/Outreach Coordinator, NASA Texas Space Grant/UT CSR

  • Margaret Baguio, Program Manager, NASA Texas Space Grant Consortium

 

Diversity and Inclusion; rising above limitations

According to recent reports, in 2019 the proportion of women in senior management roles globally grew to 29%, the highest number ever recorded. While this is a significant milestone, this representation has to go way beyond statistics.

For this progress to be meaningful and sustainable, women and girls need to be more audacious by going into STEM fields that have been male dominated over the years. Diversity and Inclusion are both important and must go hand in hand to help drive this. 

The presenter will discuss some practical ways to educate and empower young women to look beyond their limitations, be audacious, become a person of value in any environment and drive positive change irrespective of their age, race and personality.

  • Obioma Levi Johnson, Consultant/Leadership Coach, John Maxwell Company

 

Strategies to Build Relationships for Engagement
Session Recording
Zoom Chat

This workshop will give participants practical tools that can be used right away to build effective relationships to produce engagement in their STEM Programs.  Building relationships will give participants an opening for students to take risks which will allow them to be open to learn something new.  During this workshop participants will have the opportunity to apply strategies to build authentic relationships for engagement during their programs.   Through these strategies, organizations can evaluate and receive honest feedback on how to develop their program to increase girls of differing ethnicities and races to participate in their programs.  

  • Carla Allen, CTE and Math Teacher, Del Valle High School

  • Dawn Hunter, Texas Advanced Computing Center at UT Austin

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