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Subject: [AAUW-atlarge] Member Letter from Carolyn Hayek Regional AAUW
	Liaison to National Girls Collaborative Project
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To:       All AAUW Members in the Mountain Pacific Region

From:   Carolyn Hayek, Regional AAUW Liaison to the National Girls Collaborative Project

Date:    January 18, 2007

Re:        Northwest Girls Collaborative Forum at Microsoft, Feb. 2, 2007

If you support enhancing math and science education for K-12 girls and consider registering for the NGCP Forum to be held Feb. 2, 2007, at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond from 11am to 3pm.  You can register on-line at the following website:

http://www.erasurvey.org/input/NWwinter.htm  

Please encourage any interested AAUW member to participate as well as program managers, guidance counselors, business partners, technical professionals, teachers, and representatives from professional organizations and higher education. 

Valuable presentations and workshops will be available from the following organizations:

PBS Dragonfly SciGirls:  http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/parentsteachers/scigirls.html
TechBridge:  http://www.techbridgegirls.org
Assessing Women in Engineering:  http://www.engr.psu.edu/awe
ITEST Learning Resource Center: http://www2.edc.org/itestlrc
The Ophelia Project:  http://www.opheliaproject.org

Contact Bev Walker at bwalker@psctlt.org with questions about the forum. 

Volunteer opportunities are available for AAUW members able to come between 10 am and 4pm.  This event is sponsored by the National Girls Collaborative Project, which has been funded by the National Science Foundation, and the American Association of University Women is an active participant.  AAUW Liaisons from across the country will be attending, along with AAUW staff research associate Christi Corbett, who is coordinating AAUW participation. The Forum is part of the training for leaders of regional collaboratives located in seven regions of the country.  

Each regional collaborative will be seeking grant applicants for fifteen $1,000 mini-grants to be distributed in their area.  Attendees will receive information about the grant application process and learn how to register their organization or project in the national database of K-12 STEM projects to be developed as part of this 5-year project.  Networking opportunities are also an important part of this project, to help STEM program sponsors and presenters learn more about each other and to share ideas about how to best further opportunities for girls in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).  If you are involved in an existing STEM project, you are invited to bring a display to tell others what you have done.

If you are willing to serve as a volunteer at the forum, please share that information with AAUW's Mountain Pacific Regional Liaison for this project:  Carolyn Hayek, hayekservices@aol.com, in addition to registering for the forum.
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