Adult Learners: Professional Development & Resources
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Engineer Girl: ask an engineer
http://www.engineergirl.org/nae/cwe/egmain.nsf/Ask+an+Engineer?openform
This section of the Engineer Girl website identifies women role models or mentors in STEM fields by providing a form for girls to ask questions of engineers in fourteen different areas of engineering. This resource is appropriate for all users, particularly for girls and women, because it identifies women role models or mentors in STEM fields and targets girls or women.
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AWIS Mentoring Project
http://www.awis.org/mentoring.html
As part of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) website, this resource provides background information on why mentoring is important to women in science and information on how to become or find a mentor. Many people believe that once more women are in the pipeline they will automatically flow upward and, ultimately, assume leadership positions. In reality, women drop out of the sciences at.
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Eyes to the Future
http://www.terc.edu/etf/index.html
This resource describes the Eyes to the Future mentoring program based at TERC in Cambridge, MA. The program seeks to keep middle school girls interested in science and technology through web based mentorships with high school girls and women in the science and technology fields. This resource is appropriate for all users, particularly for girls and women, because it uses inclusive images of girls.......
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Professional women role models in math and science
http://www.eyhnet.org/mentors.html
This site features profiles several women working or studying in the math or science field. This multimedia site contains a mixture of text, video and audio clips targeted at girls and women........
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WISH-net (Women in Science and Healthcare Network)
http://wish-net.od.nih.gov/index.htm
This website offers inspiration, resourses, and mentoring opportunities for girls and women interested in careers in science, research, and healthcare. The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) of the Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) supported the development of this website. WISH-net as a vehicle for stimulating and sustaining interest in scientific careers.......
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Computer girl
http://www.computergirl.us/
Designed by a high school senior in the midst of considering her future college major, this site provides users with access to female mentors in the technology field, articles and statistics on women in technology, job resources, and a question and answer section. This resource is appropriate for all users, particularly for girls and women, because it identifies women role models or mentors in STEM.......
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