Women in STEM
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Press Releases
3D Printing Trailblazer ELEGOO Announces Initiative to Boost Women’s Roles in STEM
In celebration of International Women’s Day, ELEGOO, a trailblazer in the 3D printing industry, has initiated a project dedicated to inspiring and empowering women in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). This long-term endeavor is designed to highlight their stories and encourage a greater number of women to participate in these fields. Annika Mordelt, a PhD researcher in…
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NASA Awards $5 Million to Women’s Colleges Tackling STEM Gender Gap
As part of a Biden/Harris initiative, NASA will award more than $5 million in funding to seven Women’s Colleges and Universities (WCUs) to research and develop strategies that increase retention of women in STEM degree programs and careers. The agency’s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) created the Women’s Colleges and Universities opportunity to help women overcome obstacles and barriers to working…
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Space Center Houston exhibit highlights women in STEM
Space Center Houston is an iconic museum with a fully restored mission control center and filled with exhibits on the history of human spaceflight. During Women’s History Month, Watch U.S. Fly is featuring the Space Center’s exhibit on women in STEM. In the “Astronaut Gallery” section there is a focus on women astronauts and their contributions to space travel. The…
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Code.org and Amazon Kick Off Hour of Code: Dance Party to Introduce One Million Girls to Coding
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 3, 2018– Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Code.org today introduced Hour of Code: Dance Party – an online gamified tutorial that aims to teach basic coding skills to more than one million young girls during the first week of December and will continue to reach millions more kids throughout 2019. To help raise awareness of the value of coding at schools around the world,…
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