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Princeton Plasma Phsyics Lab

Princeton Plasma Phsyics Lab in Princeton, NJ hosts a number of educational programs for high school students in the sciences and engineering. You can find our more about their offerings on their site.

Douglass Science Career
Exploration Day

The Douglass Science Career Exploration Day for young women in grades 11 and 12 at Douglass College. Career exploration is a vital part of the education process that often doesn't get enough attention, therefore; this day will be a great opportunity for students to discover the many hidden careers in the areas of science, math, engineering and technology that they were not aware of. They will here from women in these fields and learn of the challenges and rewards of following a path that may not always be traditional for their gender. Your assistance is needed to get the word out and to encourage young women to be a part of this exciting event. Registration and more information can be accessed from their website.

MIT Program for High School Girls

The Women's Technology Program at MIT is a 4-week summer residence program to introduce high school girls to electrical engineering and computer science. If you know a girl who is currently a high school junior with demonstrated math and science ability and an interest in finding out about EECS, please encourage her to visit our website for more information and for an application form

Register for the annual No Name-Calling Week- and join educators from across the nation as they work to end name-calling in their schools.

Click here to register

Schools serving grades 5-8 will take part in a week of educational activities aimed at stopping name-calling and verbal bullying. The project seeks to focus national attention on the problem of name-calling in schools, and to provide students and educators with the tools and inspiration to launch an on-going dialogue about ways to eliminate name-calling in their communities.

Featured Research:

Preparing Women and Minorities
for Science and Engineering:
Resources for Educators, Parents,
and the Community
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Created by Eileen L. Collins, a Fellow of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University. It annotates and provides Web links for readily accessible materials that educators, parents, administrators, and community leaders can use in locating and building strategies and programs to facilitate preparation of girls and minority students in middle and high schools for eventual careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Noteworthy Links

Let's Get Real (exciting new video-based bullying curriculum):

Phone: 415-641-4616;
email or vist their website

The Different and The Same series (9 short videos for primary grades that could be used BY 5th or 6th graders to teach their young mentees about bias): Click here or go to GPN Educational Media and click on "elementary PK-4" on the bar at the top and then on "self-awareness" on the subject bar on the left.

Flash Judgments (wonderfully diverse 24-minute video introduces the topic of prejudices and the concept that we all have them):

Click here

If your computer has the ability to do streaming video, you may be interested in the pbs Nov. 12, 2003: " Achievement Gap" report. This report by John Merrow discusses the achievement gap in terms of economics and race, and visits Lincoln School of Mt. Vernon, New York.