| Title | Organization/Source | Description |
| 20 Websites Useful to Scientists, Engineers | Philadelphia Examiner | A list of 20 great websites that every scientist, engineering, or geek-at-heart ought to know about. |
| Aerospace Engineering Teacher's Guide | Celeste Baine | This guide launches into aerospace with five activities and three challenges using four different types of rockets. Learn about testing and controlling variables with straw rockets, fuel pressure with air-powered rockets, fuel volume and trajectory with water rockets, altitude and velocity with solid-fuel rockets, and more. |
| An Analysis of STEM Education Funding at the NSF: Trends and Policy Discussion | Congressional Research Service | This report analyzes NSF funding trends and selected closely related STEM education policy issues in order to place conversations about FY2013 funding in broader fiscal and policy context. |
| An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Committee for Capitalizing on Science, Technology, and Innovation: An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program, National Research Council
| This book assesses a program designed to encourage small business to develop new processes and products and to provide quality research in support of the many missions of the U.S. government, including health, energy, the environment, and national defense. |
| Aspiring Teachers to Learn Novel Approach to Science Instruction | Jennifer McNulty, UC Santa Cruz | Nearly 1,000 aspiring teachers in San Francisco and San Diego will learn cutting-edge techniques for teaching science to young children whose first language isn't English as part of a collaboration led by UC Santa Cruz. |
| Association of MIT Alumnae | Celebrating 125 Years of Women at MIT 1873-1998 | A look at women MIT pioneers with lots of photos, and a bibliography. |
| Attracting and Retaining Females and Minority Students into Technology
| Alka Harriger and Antonia Munguia, Purdue University | Research in STEM education focuses on innovation in what is taught, how it is taught, and increasing the access of underrepresented groups to these innovations. |
| Base Ten | The Feminist Press | Base Ten exposes the daily battles of women scientists fighting to preserve a family life and succeed in a discipline that functions on the archaic belief that every scientist has a "wife" at home. |
| Bayer Facts of Science Education | Bayer | Read the results of a survey of Fortune 1000 Executives about STEM education and the STEM workforce. |
| Becoming Leaders: A Practical Handbook for Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology | F. Mary Williams and Carolyn J. Emerson | This book provides practical advice for girls considering engineering careers, women engineers, and employers and families of women engineers. |
| Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering | Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering | Beyond Bias and Barriers explains that eliminating gender bias in academia requires immediate overarching reform, including decisive action by university administrators, professional societies, federal funding agencies and foundations, government agencies, and Congress. |
| Bill Gates Offers the World a Physics Lesson | Beyond Binary | Gates has made classic physics lectures available free online. |
| Biographies of Women Mathematicians | Agnes Scott College | These pages are part of an on-going project at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics. |
| Biomedical Engineering Predicted to be Among Fastest-Growing Jobs in United States | Abigail Rome, CTICareerSearch | The authors Report on Bureau of Labor Statistics Reports, which show that biomedical engineering is one of the fastest growing occupations in the United States, and salaries for biomedical engineers are among the top five for the 20 fastest growing occupations. |
| Boot Camp Informs School Counselors about Tech Careers for Students | ASCD SmartBrief | Middle- and high-school counselors from one Oklahoma district participated in a hands-on technology boot camp to learn about pre-engineering, construction and other tech-based career tracks that are available for their students. Juniors and seniors in the district can earn up to 25 college credit hours through a partnership between a local college and the district's technology center, which hosted the boot camp sessions |
| Bridging the Diversity Gap in Science and Engineering: Introducing STEM Industries to K-12 Best Practicde Programs | Bayer | |
| Budding Engineers Need Mentors | Digital Learning Environments | Students need exposure to the ideas of science, technology, engineering, and math. They need mentors. They need experts to show them what engineering is and how it is used to build and create the products the world uses. |
| Building a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education Agenda | National Governors Association | This report focuses on strengthening STEM education and discusses Goals of the STEM Agenda; Why the STEM Agenda is Important; Weak Links in the System; Implementing a State STEM Agenda; and Moving Forward. |
| Building Capacity to Promote the Success of Students with Disabilities in Computing and Information Technology Fields | Access Computing | This publication addresses capacity building at institutional, regional, national, and international levels regarding issues surrounding the participation of students, including veterans, with disabilities in computing and IT studies and careers. |
| CAMS & STAMS Book Collection | Curriculum Associates LLC | This powerful combination of assessment and instruction works effectively as a program to make sure your students gain a solid understanding of key mathematics concepts. |
| Celebrating 125 Years of Women at MIT 1873-1998 | Association of MIT Alumnae | This website provides information about women MIT pioneers. |
| Change the Equation | White House | Change the Equation, a new 501(c)3 non-profit organization, is a response by the business community to the President’s “call to action” at the National Academy of Sciences in spring 2009 for all Americans to join the cause of elevating STEM education as a national priority essential to meeting the economic challenges of this century |
| Changing Our World: True Stories of Women Engineers | Extraordinary Women Engineers Project. | This compliation of real-life stories provides a fresh perspective, inspiration, and encouragement for young women pursuing careers in engineering. |
| Climbing the Technical Ladder:
Obstacles and Solutions for Mid-Level women in Technology | Stanford University | This report proposes data-driven, systematic solutions for the retention and advancement of technical women. |
| Computer Science Continues To See Gender Gap | Campus Technology | If the attitudes of high school students are a good predictor of eventual career choices, the future will continue to see computer science fields dominated by males. |
| Determining Prograss Toward Achieving Equity, Second Edition | ITEA | Create a program that reflects educational equity, recognizing the learning differences of all students regardless of gender or ethnicity. |
| Diversity/Careers in Engineering and Information Technology | Renard Communications | This publication serves engineering and IT professionals who are women, African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, Native Americans, people with disabilities and members of other diversity groups. |
| Effective Access: Using Digital Resources to Enhance High School Teaching in STEM | Gender, Diversity & Technology Institute | Through surveys, focus groups, and interviews, Effective Access staff developed clear pictures of educators' use of digital resources. The project results highlight ways that developers can aid teachers in finding and integrating digital resources |
| Effective Math and Science Instruction | Intercultural Development Research Association | In many schools, teachers have made positive changes in the mathematics they teach and how they teach it. They have focused on providing both basic instruction and complex thinking skills that students need to grasp advanced concepts presented in math and science. |
| Engineering in K-12 Education: Understanding the Status and Improving the Prospects | The National Academies Press | Engineering education in K-12 classrooms is a small but growing phenomenon that may have implications for engineering and also for the other "STEM" subjects--science, technology, and mathematics. |
| Engineering Success | Sherwood High School | The use of advanced technology helps make Niebergall’s classes a big draw for Sherwood High’s population of teen boys, but young women are nearly absent from the class. |
| Engineering: Go For It Magazine | Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) | The magazine shows how engineering is saving lives and the environment every day, taking into account research demonstrating that girls want to know how their career will make a difference in the world |
| Engineers Make a Difference | Celeste Baine | With a focus on the state of K-12 engineering education and motivating students, this book is an invitation to explore engineering and share the fun with students of all ages. |
| Entrepreneurial Women Claim High-tech Turf | Aimee Miles, Palo Alto Online | Silicon Valley is a beacon of hope for entrepreneurs. But with women-founded, venture-backed startups accounting for just 8 percent of the total, it's clear that women in the valley's high-tech sector who channel that potential into high-growth, scalable companies are statistically the exception, not the rule. That trend has recently begun to correct itself |
| Female Scientists May Make Significant Personal Sacrifices for Professional Success, Study Finds | Politics Daily, Summary from 9/30/10 ACTE Legislative Update | Results of a recent survey of 1,300 female and male scientists suggest that female scientists might be making significant personal sacrifices to achieve professional goals. |
| Flickering Clusters: Women, Science and collaborative Transformations | Cheryl Ney, Jacqueline Ross, and Laura Stempel | Flickering Clusters documents an innovative project designed to attract and retain women and minority students in science, mathematics, and engineering. |
| G3 STEM Guide | A3 Creative Group | This guide helps a student focus on a career choice matched to his or her interests, abilities, and ambitions, and shows him or her how to follow a pathway/program of study from high school to personally and professionally rewarding employment in the STEM sector. |
| Gender Differences in Learning Style Specific to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) | Donna Milgram, SelfGrowth.com | This article discusses the gender differences in learning styles that STEM teachers should keep in mind when developing lesson plans and teaching in the classroom. |
| Gender Equity in Education Page | Martha C. Phelps-Borrowman | This site was constructed to promote a heightened awareness of the need for gender equity in education for both girls and boys |
| Gender Equity in Mathematics Education | Asian-Pacific Economic Coopreration | This report summarises gender equity in education in terms of its challenge and the approaches recommended to promote women's access to education in math and science. |
| Gender Equity Resources | Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc. | The results of Dr. Patricia B. Campbell’s work to increase gender and race equity in math, science, and technology education can be found in the following "user friendly" reports, brochures, and pamphlets. |
| Generation STEM: What Girls Say About STEM 2012 | Girl Scouts of America | A recent Girl Scout Research Institute study showed that 74% of high school girls are interested in STEM. But few girls pursue careers in these areas, in part because many think they'd have to work harder than men to be taken seriously. |
| Girls in Outer Space | NASA | NASA is collaborating with the Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now (FFAWN) and the NASA Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Aerospace Academy (SEMAA) to engage middle schools in math and science learning. |
| Girls in Science | NSTA | The authors of Girls in Science engaged in years of working under a grant funded by the National Science Foundation on this all-too-real problem of gender-equitable science teaching. What they found through working with students, teachers, and scientists- the three elements of the Triad community in which their research started-can change the way you teach and level the playing field of science education for girls. |
| Girls Worse at Math? No Way, Study Says | Reuters | Girls can do just as well at math as boys-even at the genius level-if they are given the same opportunities and encouragement, researchers recently Reported. Their study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, contradicts studies showing girls can do as well as boys on average in math -- but cannot excel in the way males can. |
| Graduate Enrollment in Science and Engineering Grew Substantially in the Past Decade but Slowed in 2010 | NSF | However, a recent study by the National Science Foundation indicates that growth in STEM programs peaked in 2008 and has since declined. |
| Green Space | Wider Opportunities for Women | This newsletter contains stories about green jobs and green-collar job training as well as state and federal legislation information. |
| Helping STEM Take Root | Ron Schachter, District Administration | Over the past two years, the STEM movement has shown signs of taking root, as district leaders say they are finding public and private funding to develop STEM-related curricula, ramping up professional development, and even launching dedicated STEM academies. |
| High school girls take robotics talents to state championship this weekend
| East Oregonian | Three Umatilla teenagers head for a state robotics competition and nine hours later, the trio of fledgling robotics engineers accepted the hefty first-place trophy. |
| How to Use Illustrations to Help Students Learn Science | Accomplished Teacher by SmartBrief | Illustrations, comics and graphic novels can be used to help improve students' understanding of science concepts. In this blog post, several lesson plans are suggested for capitalizing on the arts, including instructing students to illustrate a particular scientific concept or create a comic strip. |
| Increasing Opportunities for Low-Income Women and Student Parents in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math at Community Colleges | IWPR | According to this new report, the share of women pursuing degrees in STEM fields at community colleges is significantly declining. |
| InDemand | Career Voyages | This issue highlights careers in Science-Technology-Engineering-Math (STEM). |
| International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology | Open University | This journal's aim is to help foster and develop the growing community of researchers, practitioners and policy makers who are interested in gender issues in science and technology and provide a focus for constructive debate and interchange of ideas between key players and experts in this field. |
| Is the STEM push working? | Tech & Learning | If a push for STEM education just means that we search for more ways to test STEM subjects, we will miss the promise of STEM education. |
| Is There an Engineer Inside You? | Celeste Baines | covers women and minorities in engineering, 32 different types of engineering, how to succeed in engineering school, engineering careers that make you say "wow!", how much money engineers make and much more. |
| ITEST Engineering Model: Building a Better Future for STEM Learning | ITEST Learning Resource Center | Results show that taking part in an ITEST engineering project can lead to an increase in STEM learning, interest in STEM careers, and understanding of engineering as a tool for the 21st century. |
| Jump in Fall 2008 Enrollments of First-Time, Full-Time S&E Graduate Students | National Science Foundation | This report shows that in 2008 there were more students enrolled in graduate programs for these subjects than in the previous year. Overall enrollment grew 2.5 percent over 2007, and first-time full-time enrollments actually increased by nearly 8 percent. |
| Kristine De Welde et al. | Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math | This 5-page fact sheet from Sociologists for Women in Society summarizes the current educational and employment status of U.S. women in STEM. |
| Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits | National Research Council | This report provides a number of relevant and valuable conclusions for girl-serving informal STEM programs. |
| Madame Curie and the Science of Radioactivity | American Institute of Physics | This website provides information about M. Curie's life. |
| Making a Case for Diversity in STEM Fields | Daryl E. Chubin and Shirley M. Malcom | This report discusses how, at a time when STEM fields are increasingly important to our national security, health, and competitiveness, we are neither supporting the research nor producing the diverse pool of scientists and engineers we need to fuel our future. |
| National Labs-Now Free With Delivery | eGFI | At the Department of Energy's National Laboratories, more than 30,000 scientists and engineers perform cutting-edge research with up-to-date facilities and equipment. Most offer some form of educational outreach, including workshops, lectures and tours, and make materials available to teachers nationwide via the Web. Several labs have also hit the road in order to bring free science and engineering education directly to nearby schools. |
| Navigating a Complex Landscape to Foster Greater Faculty and Student Diversity in Higher Education | (American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association of American Universities) | This handbook outlines legally sustainable ways to expand diversity on campuses, particularly within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. |
| New Web-based Science Game for Girls Gets $200,000 Boost | Sally Kalson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | A Web-based science game being designed to interest more girls in science and gaming technology won $200,000 in the MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition. The Carnegie Science Center's Click!Online game will feature a fictional spy agency where girls can solve real-world challenges in environmental protection, "expressive technology" and biomedical science. "Senior agents" will act as online mentors and provide support for the girls in the critical-thinking and problem-solving skills needed to solve the mysteries. |
| Next Generation of STEM Innovators: Identifying and Developing Our Nation's Human Capital | National Science Board | On September 15, 2010 the National Science Board released Preparing the Next Generation of STEM Innovators: Identifying and Developing Our Nation's Human Capital. |
| PCAST STEM Ed Report | President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology | On September 15, 2010, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a plan for improvements in K-12 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education. |
| Picture This: Engineering | EIC | A resource guide for the creative community to accurately portray science, engineering and technology in today's media |
| Planting the Seeds for a Diverse U.S. STEM Pipeline: A Compendium of Best Practice k-12 STEM Edcuation Programs | Bayer | |
| Professor Tries to Measure Student Achievement in Science and Technology Fields | NewsLeader.com | What does it mean to be an expert in science, technology, engineering and math - the so-called "STEM" fields, which change so quickly that before you've had a chance to boot up the latest electronic gadget, a newer version already exists? The work of David Feldon, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education, is focused on answering this question. |
| Questions and Answers About Women in Astronomy | University of Maryland | This website provides information about women in astronomy and their careers. |
| Race Matters When Recruiting, Retaining Undergraduate Women Engineers | University of Washington | Attempts to recruit and retain more women in undergraduate engineering programs often lump all female students into a single group. At best, minority women as a group may receive special attention. But a new study of female engineering students' perceived challenges finds significant differences between black, Hispanic, Native American, Asian-American and white women. |
| Report Card | NCWIT | The NCWIT Scorecard is a status report on women's participation in computing and information technology at every segment of the pipeline. |
| Research on images of science and scientists in the mass media | Dr. Jocelyn Steinke | Jocelyn Steinke’s research focuses on images of science and scientists in the mass media. Her most recent research explores the influence of media images of women scientists and engineers on adolescent girls’ conceptions of gender roles and their occupational aspirations |
| Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5 | Members of the 2005 "Rising Above the Gathering Storm" Committee; Prepared for the Presidents of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine | In the face of so many daunting near-term challenges, U.S. government and industry are letting the crucial strategic issues of U.S. competitiveness slip below the surface. Five years ago, the National Academies prepared Rising Above the Gathering Storm, a book that cautioned: "Without a renewed effort to bolster the foundations of our competitiveness, we can expect to lose our privileged position." Since that time we find ourselves in a country where much has changed--and a great deal has not changed. |
| Sally Ride Parent Handbook | Sally Ride Science | This guide (English and Spanish) for parents provides the facts about girls and science and practical ways to encourage girls' interests in science, math and technology. |
| Science Matters | National Science Teachers Association | Science Matters is an initiative by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) to bring content, news, and information that supports quality science education to parents and teachers nationwide. |
| Serving Up Science and Engineering (to girls especially): a quick briefing | R. Sevo et al. | This guide is designed for people who find themselves involved with education outreach Programs to recruit girls and minorities to science and engineering, or want to know about them. It offers a quick digest on a range of topics from activities to use with kids, to who's doing what in this area and why. |
| Sketching a Path to Better Education | Medill, Markham Heid | "If you don't learn to read well early on, there are ample studies showing that you are crippled all through school," said Ken Forbus, head of the Cognitive Systems Division at Northwestern University's Department of Computer Science. "The question is: Is there an analogous phenomenon in spatial thinking" that relates to sketching? Forbus said spatial ability is a great predictor of whether a student will excel in the "STEM" disciplines: science, technology, engineering and mathematics. |
| Stakeholders’ Listening Meeting | U.S. House of Representatives Diversity and Innovation Caucus | This paper summarizes stakeholders' answers to questions about diversity in STEM. |
| STEM | Georgetown Center on Education and Workforce | This new report shows that 65 percent of Bachelor's degrees in STEM occupations earn more than Master's degrees in non-STEM occupations. |
| STEM in the States | Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology | STEM in the States provides information on important indicators of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and workforces in each state in comparative perspective. |
| STEM Major Choice and the Gender Pay Gap | Andresse St. Rose, AAUW's On Campus with Women | AAUW senior researcher Andresse St. Rose discusses the relationship between gender segregation in STEM and the gender pay gap among college-educated men and women. |
| Students Who Study Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in
Postsecondary Education | ies National Center for Education Statistics | This Statistics in Brief focuses on undergraduate students, examining students’ entrance into and persistence toward degree completion in STEM fields. It is designed to provide a profile of undergraduates who pursue and complete STEM degrees. |
| Survey: Teachers Do Poor Job of Encouraging Science Careers | Lisa Singleton-Rickman, Times Daily | A recent survey by the American Society for Quality indicates the country's K-12 teachers get high marks for science smarts, but their grade drops when it comes to encouraging science, technology, engineering and math as career options. |
| SWE 2007 Literature Review of Women in Engineering | Society of Women Engineers | The SWE compiled a list of articles that examine programs that increase the number of women and minorities involved in STEM and the experiences and impact of women engineers in industry and academics. |
| Swimming Against the Tide: AfricanAmerican Girls and Science Education | Sandra L. Hanson - Temple University | This book uses Department of Education data as well as a recent survey of young African American women to examine the experiences in families, communities, and peer-groups that help young African American women “swim against the tide” of the white, male science education system |
| The 10 Best-Paying College Majors | Chriss Morran, The Consumerist | A new study lists the 10 college majors that will net the most income right away. Seven of the top spots are taken up by engineering gigs, with economics, physics and computer science filling the three remaining slots. Of the 10 majors listed, Chemical Engineering has the biggest immediate payoff, with a starting median salary of $65,700/year. But it's Aerospace Engineering that pays off better in the long run, with a median mid-career salary of $109K/year |
| The 2012 Statistical Abstract | US Census Bureau | This website presents data primarily concerning formal education as a whole, at various levels, and for public and private schools. |
| The Quest for Excellence: Supporting the Academic Success of Minority Males in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Disciplines | APLU | This report states that in order to succeed, high achieving minority males in STEM disciplines need faculty engagement, involvement in undergraduate research, and financial support. |
| The Role of Informal Science in the State Education Agenda | National Governors Association | This report provides guidance to states on how to make informal science a part of their state STEM agenda. |
| Trailblazers | Virginia Dept of Education | To meet federal Perkins Act requirements, school divisions need to increase the enrollment and completion rates of underrepresented students in nontraditional CTE Programs. Trailblazers' mission is to provide the support you need to accomplish this goal. |
| U.S. Female Students Enter College Most Prepared for STEM Studies | Bayer | According to faculty at America's top research universities in a new Bayer survey, more women and minorities are not graduating from STEM degrees because of early discouragement and traditional STEM teaching approaches. |
| Using Data/Getting Results | Nancy Love | This is a practical guide for school improvement in math and science. |
| What Color is my World? The Lost History of African American Inventors | Kareem Abdul Jabar | This book provides a dynamic look at several unsung heroes who shared a desire to improve people's lives. |
| Women and Minorities in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics : Upping the Numbers | Mary Mattis et al. | This book discusses scientific, technological advances and innovations that are critical to the economic performance of developed countries and the standard of living of the citizens. |
| Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology: Three Decades of UK Initiatives | Alison Phipps | This book presents an accessible overview of the recent history of UK initiatives designed to encourage girls and women into nontraditional fields such as science, engineering, technology, construction, and the trades. |
| Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) | University of Colorado at Boulder | The results are in, and girls in the United States aren't any more interested in STEM (science, technology, math and engineering) careers than they were 10 or 20 years ago....There may not be one all- encompassing solution to STEM gender equity, but there are some tools that can help get girls interested in STEM and keep them engaged with it through their secondary and post-secondary education--ranging from investments in professional development to simple, everyday encouragement. |
| Women in Science:Then and Now | The Feminist Press | Gornick’s original 100 interviews show how deep and severe discriminations against women have been in all the scientific fields. Her new interviews, with some of the same women she spoke to twenty-five years ago, provide a fresh description of the hard times and great successes these women have experienced. |
| Women in STEM: How are they doing? | Trailblazers | Despite significant progress, few women complete engineering or mathematics and computer science degrees. |
| Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering | National Science Foundation | This report provides information about the participation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering education and employment. |
| Women’s Adventures in Science Series | National Academy of Sciences | Read this series of biographies written about ten contemporary working scientists. |
| Women's Adventure in Science Books for Middle Schoolers | The National Academies | In this series, readers will learn about trailblazing women who are leaders in a variety of scientific fields. |