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style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">To:<SPAN
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All AAUW Members in the Mountain
Pacific Region<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">From:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Carolyn Hayek, Regional AAUW
Liaison to the National Girls Collaborative
Project<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Date:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>January 18,
2007<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Re:<SPAN
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</SPAN>Northwest Girls Collaborative Forum at Microsoft, Feb. 2,
2007<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">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:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><A
href="http://www.erasurvey.org/input/NWwinter.htm"><SPAN
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face=Tahoma>http://www.erasurvey.org/input/NWwinter.htm</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">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.
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Valuable presentations
and workshops will be available from the following
organizations:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR><BR><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">PBS Dragonfly SciGirls:</SPAN></STRONG>
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/parentsteachers/scigirls.html"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT
face=Tahoma
color=#000099>http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/parentsteachers/scigirls.html</FONT></SPAN></A><BR></SPAN><FONT
size=3><STRONG><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">TechBridge:</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="http://www.techbridgegirls.org"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT
face=Tahoma
color=#000099>http://www.techbridgegirls.org</FONT></SPAN></A><BR></SPAN><STRONG><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Assessing Women in
Engineering: </FONT></SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="http://www.engr.psu.edu/awe"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT
face=Tahoma
color=#000099>http://www.engr.psu.edu/awe</FONT></SPAN></A><BR></SPAN><FONT
size=3><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">ITEST Learning
Resource Center:</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="http://www2.edc.org/itestlrc"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT
face=Tahoma
color=#000099>http://www2.edc.org/itestlrc</FONT></SPAN></A><BR></SPAN><FONT
size=3><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Ophelia
Project:</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
</SPAN></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="http://www.opheliaproject.org"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT
face=Tahoma
color=#000099>http://www.opheliaproject.org</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Contact Bev
Walker at bwalker@psctlt.org with questions about the
forum. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">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. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">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).<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you are involved in an existing STEM
project, you are invited to bring a display to tell others what you have
done.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>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,
</FONT><A
href="http://by113fd.bay113.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?mailto=1&msg=8C86BE1D-8109-44E8-A278-9D26B93038B1&start=0&len=25073&src=&type=x&to=hayekservices@aol.com&cc=&bcc=&subject=&body=&curmbox=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&a=a6de8a5d6b129b0b97b0839a5eaf830512800fe60f737bf45e68c607f31313e4"><SPAN
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face=Tahoma color=#000099 size=3>hayekservices@aol.com</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">, in addition to registering for the
forum.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>