| 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 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. |
| Analysis Finds Technical Nature of Science, Engineering Not Behind Exit of Women | Jennifer Hunt, Forbes | The author explores the idea that women are "exiting from science and engineering disproportionately," and asks if this is the case, "is this exodus simply a hallmark of male-dominated fields in general, or is it specific to science and engineering?" |
| 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. |
| Avatar's James Cameron Pushes Tech Career to Young | ABS.CBN.news.com | "Avatar" director James Cameron urged young Americans Monday to pursue careers in science and technology to keep the United States at the forefront of technical innovation and allow him to make more blockbuster movies. |
| 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. |
| Blacks, Latinos and Women Lose Ground at Silicon Valley Tech Companies | Mike Swift, Mercury News | The unique diversity of Silicon Valley is not reflected in the region's tech workplaces - and the disparity is only growing worse. |
| Blinding the Students with Science | Sharon Weatherall, Free Press | U.S. native chemical engineer Dr. Nancy Jackson, told Beausoleil First Nation students that, because of her people's strong relationship to the Earth, she wanted to "work in technologies that would not damage the environment." |
| Can Women Be Creative Scientists? The Dangers of Testing for Creative Ability | Michele and Robert Root-Bernstein, Psychology Today, Imagine That! Blog | Is creativity an inborn personality trait or a set of learned skills? The answer determines whether we test for intrinsic talent or teach creative skills. Current research on screening for scientific creativity suggests why getting the answer right is critical to the future of women in science. |
| Celebrating 125 Years of Women at MIT 1873-1998 | Association of MIT Alumnae | This website provides information about women MIT pioneers. |
| 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. |
| Creating More Opportunities for American Indians in Science and Engineering | Michelle J. Nealy, Diverse Issues in Higher Education | While many have doubted the ability of American Indian students to thrive in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, Dr. Herb Schroeder is converting skeptics with his Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program. |
| 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. |
| Educators Seek New Ways to Steer Kids Toward Technical Fields | Converge Magazine | Across the country, as the push for more STEM professionals continues, partnerships between K-12 schools and colleges will continue to expand as a win-win option for both sides: Colleges and universities can have a direct influence on their future undergraduates, and the younger set can experience STEM in a real-world context. |
| EdWeek Spotlight on STEM | Education Week | Education Week's 2009 Spotlight on STEM in Schools brings together a collection of STEM articles hand-picked the magazine's editors. |
| Engineering Career? Many Kids Say No | American Machinist | A survey indicated that 85 percent of youth, ages 8 to 17, say they are not interested in a future engineering career for a variety of reasons. |
| Engineering Schools Boost Efforts to Attract Females | Claude Solnik, Long Island Business News
| Engineering schools are re-engineering their Programs to attract more women and retain students who have been switching to other disciplines. They are making the effort after seeing the number of people obtaining engineering degrees remain basically flat and the number of women slip slightly. |
| 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. |
| 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 Equality Helps Girls with Math, study says | Philadelphia Inquirer | High school boys outscored girls in math in the United States, but girls performed just as well in Norway, Sweden and other countries. |
| 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 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 fix the STEM education 'crisis'
| eSchool News | Experts weigh in on teacher qualification, cultural perceptions, and systemic solutions for improving U.S. math and science instruction
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Mid-Del Technology Center Boot Camp gives counselors hands-on experience | Tricia Pemberton, NewsOK | 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. |
| Mobile Labs Increase Students' Access to Science Education | USA today | Mobile labs are active in at least 10 states and are an important tool in attracting young people to the so-called STEM courses — science, technology, engineering and math |
| Momentum Building on STEM Education: Science and math accelerate, but experts urge schools not to forget about the 'T' (technology) and 'E' (engineering) in their STEM efforts | Laura Devaney, eSchool News | This article discusses the building momentum for recognizing the "T" and "E" in STEM--technology and engineering, two subjects often overlooked. |
| NASA Program Will Target Minority Students | Charlie Curnow, The Daily Tell | A new partnership led by NASA will pilot a series of multi-week math and science education Programs this summer. NASA's "Summer of Innovation" program will come under the umbrella of the Educate to Innovate program. According to the article, NASA will "encourage low-income, minority students to pursue careers in engineering, math or science." |
| 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 | 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. |
| NSF Seeks New Approach to Helping Minority Students in Science | Paul Basken, The Chronicle of Higher Education | The National Science Foundation is re-evaluating its approach to helping minority college students, proposing a consolidation of programs that currently assist specific racial and ethnic groups. |
| Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley | Claire Cain Miller, New York Times | This article explores gender disparities in Silicon Valley. |
| Questions and Answers About Women in Astronomy | University of Maryland | This website provides information about women in astronomy and their careers. |
| 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 |
| Rockin' Out for Science | Baltimore Sun | Dr. Francis S. Collins, who led the government's successful effort to decode the human genome (he also happens to play the guitar) is among a handful of preeminent researchers featured in a slick six-page photo spread in the June issue of GQ. The photos are part of a larger ad campaign called "Rock Stars of Science" designed to celebrate scientists, highlight the importance of their research and draw attention to the funding needed to make their work possible. |
| Sally Ride Science Publications | Sally Ride Science | The Sally Ride Science website contains numerous science related publications that help homeschool educators as well as in class curriculum. |
| Science Day Summary | STEM Equity Pipeline State Team | The Ohio state team has shared some interesting statistics regarding the 10,695 pre-college STEM students who participated in The Ohio Academy of Science's State Science Day during the years 1996-2008. |
| 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. |
| Scientist Shortage, Maybe Not | USA Today, Greg Toppo and Dan Vergano | As the push to train more young people in STEM - science, technology, engineering and math - careers gains steam, a few prominent skeptics are warning that it may be misguided - and that rhetoric about the USA losing its world pre-eminence in science, math and technology may be a stretch. |
| 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. |
| State Technology Report 2008 | edweek.org | The report assigns grades to the states for their technology performance overall and in the areas of access, use, and capacity. |
| STEM Education Can Help Prevent the Next Disaster | Eric A. Clayton, District Administration | With oil continuing to spill into the Gulf of Mexico...How do we prevent this kind of disaster from happening again? The most sustainable and forward-thinking answer may lie elsewhere-in education. It is within the academic realm of STEM, often touted as the Achilles' heel of the U.S. educational system, that the foundations for future disaster-aversion could be built. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Studying Engineering Before They Can Spell It | Winnie Hu, New York Times | In a class full of aspiring engineers, the big bad wolf needed to get past a voice-activated security gate, find a hidden door. and negotiate a few other traps in a house that a pair of kindergartners imagined for the pigs--and then pieced together from index cards, paper cups, wood sticks and pipe cleaners. |
| 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 |
| Tech Industry Searching for Girls Gone Geek | Eve Tahmincioglu, MSNBC | Mattel recently conducted an online poll asking girls everywhere to choose Barbie's next occupation from the following choices - surgeon, architect, news anchor, environmentalist and computer engineer. The overwhelming choice among the girls was news anchor. But adults in the blogosphere, on Twitter and Facebook launched their own campaign for computer engineer Barbie. |
| Techies with a Cause: The Couple Is out to Decrease the Gender and Socioeconomic Gaps in Computing | Caroline Winter, Bloomburg Business Week | Sep Kamvar and his wife, Angie Schiavoni, recently launched CodeEd, a pilot program to introduce fifth-grade girls to computer science |
| The Daring Game | USA Today | This video game is based on a book series and packs a powerful lesson about girl power in an entertaining adventure. The essence of this game is that girls can do anything they put their mind to. The game surrounds girls with a supportive world by filling the load screens with inspirational messages from famous women. |
| The Race to Become a Green-Job Hub | Sudeep Reddy, Wall Street Journal | This article discusses the race by cities and states to become leading centers for green jobs. |
| Tracking The Reasons Many Girls Avoid Science And Math | Science Daily | This article states that, while interest is certainly a factor in getting older girls to study and pursue a career in these disciplines, more attention should be given to building confidence in their abilities early in their education |
| 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. |
| Transcript: Teaching Innovation | Morgan Brennan, Forbes | Entrepreneur and inventor Dean Kamen shares his perspective about U.S. math and science education. Kamen says he believes creativity can't be taught, but that it can be squashed by an education system focused on rote learning. A good education, he contends, leaves off at a point where children have a foundation to find their own answers. |
| U.S. Science and Engineering Leadership Facing Foreign Foes | Dan Vergano, USA Today | In the "Globalization of Science & Engineering Research" report, the National Science Board calls for federal agencies and U.S. industries to benchmark their research against international competitors, to ensure domestic technical expertise stays ahead of other nations |
| U.S. students behind in math, science, analysis says | CNN | U.S. students placed below average in math and science. In math, U.S. high schoolers were in the bottom quarter of the countries that participated, trailing countries including Finland, China and Estonia |
| Using Data/Getting Results | Nancy Love | This is a practical guide for school improvement in math and science. |
| UVA study finds gender bias remains on sexes, science | MEDIA General NEWS SERVICE | Both men and women hold to the stereotype that males are more easily linked with science than females, a new study says. |
| Will Science and Engineering Now Be a Good Career? | Hal Salzman and Lindsay Lowell, Education Week | The authors of this article advocates for a balanced, evidence-based policy approach to guide efforts to strengthen the science and engineering workforce at a time when dollars are precious, time for effective solutions is short, and the competitive costs of pursuing the wrong fixes are great. |
| Win a Copy of the Physics of Superheroes | L. Wallace, Wired | This interview with introductory physics professor, James Kakalios, reveals how examples from comic books, Star Wars, and television can be used to illustrate various scientific principles. |
| 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: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’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. |