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Advancing Women and Girls in STEAM - STEAM careers represent the fields of science, technology, engineering, arts and math. You may see the acronym STEAM used in place of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math).
Association of Women in Mathematics - The AMW provides a variety of resources to support K-12 students and teachers including activities for students, summer camps, teacher resources, and grants.
Beginner’s Glossary of Coding and Programming Terms - This resource provides a comprehensive list of programming terminology, plus tons of coding games and learning activities to understand the basics of programming.
Coding Resources for Women at Every Stage of Their Career - This resource introduces some of history’s most influential women in computer science, then offers technical coding and community-based resources to foster lifelong learning opportunities for girls and women at every age and stage of their lives and careers.
Computer Science.org - In and effort to help women gain access to STEM opportunities this comprehensive guide includes top online programs, scholarship opportunities, and career statistics within the industry.
Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame - STEMfems Junior is a series of easy-to-implement free educational modules designed specifically to address the critical gender gap in STEM. The modules provides opportunities for teachers to embed these modules in their curriculum to highlight pioneering Connecticut women in STEM through the stories of one Connecticut woman’s contributions to science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. The modules are suitable for grades 3-5 and offers discussion activities and creative activities to encourage young people to explore the field of the inductee.
Connection.com - Guide designed to fight underrepresentation. The guide includes information about the need for women in tech, why women are underrepresented, how to encourage women and girls to pursue STEM, and more.
Digital List: Helpful Engineering Games - This website provides a variety of engineering games and activities. The engineering process involves thinking about what you want to build first and then designing a structure that achieves your goals.
Free STEM Resources for Girls and Women - This website includes a variety of resources for girls and women to explore world of science, math, and tech. The site contains activities for children and teens, STEM resources specifically for girls, and inspiring stories to encourage girls and women to pursue STEM careers.
Girls for Technology - Girls For Technology, Inc., provides girls between the ages of 11-17 opportunities for hands-on programs. Through a variety of engaging, educational, and career-oriented programs, Girls For Technology aims to expose girls in middle school and high school to science, technology, engineering, and math.
Girls RiseNET - With the goal of motivating girls in grades six through 12 to explore careers in science and engineering, this resource provides a resource catalog of crowd-sourced research and resources on engaging girls in engineering.
Girlstart - Through its comprehensive programming, Girlstart provides a year-round, intensive suite of STEM education programs for K-12 girls. Girlstart’s core programs foster STEM skills development, an understanding of the importance of STEM as a way to solve the world’s major problems, as well as an interest in STEM electives, majors, and careers.
Girls Who Code - The Girls Who Code Club model is a yearlong program offering essential computer science education and exposure to middle and high-school aged girls nationwide. It includes monthly project-based activities that can be implemented in a wide range of settings, such as after-school clubs to monthly workshops, and is led by industry professionals.
Guide for Women to Break into Information Technology - This guide covers everything from the different career choices under the IT umbrella, to training seminars, education, and organizations that provide support to women in tech.
Guide to Colleges & Careers for Women in STEM - This guide provides women with resources to successfully pursue an education and career in these industries by providing information on colleges for women in STEM, women-focused STEM scholarships, and STEM career and college organizations for women.
I Was a Kid - The I Was a Kid website provides resources intended to help kids today expand their possibilities by tracing the paths of all kinds of people working in science in all kinds of ways. There are profiles of various professionals in STEM careers so that all students can see themselves in STEM.
JASON - The Jason Project highlights women in STEM-related fields. Some of the women recently featured whose live events were recorded and can be viewed include:
- Kris Ludwig, USGS Hazards Scientist;
- Suzanne Doughty, Social Media Editor at Dell;
- Molly Curran, Deep Sea Engineer; and
- Keri Bean, Mars Rover Driver.
Learn to Code From Home - List of free educational websites and game recommendations that are meant for beginners who want to learn about coding.
LEGO Education STEAM Career Toolkit - The toolkit features STEAM Heroes, who each have a career that might surprise your students. Each Hero shares their personal STEAM journey in a video, and then challenges your students to help them solve a problem they face in their day-to-day life, bringing the real world right into your classroom.
National Center for Women & Informational Technology (NCWIT) - NCWIT provides hundreds of free and easy-to-use resources for K–12, higher education, and corporations that support your effort to raise awareness, increase knowledge, and empower action to make sure every voice is heard.
Nation Girls Collaborative Program - NGCP brings together organizations throughout the United States that are committed to informing and encouraging girls to pursue STEM careers.
PBS: SciGils: STEM-sational Resources - SciGirls is a show for kids ages 8-12, showcasing bright, curious, real tween girls putting science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to work in their everyday lives. A good source of tips and activities designed to get girls interested in science and math.
Resources for Women in STEM - This resource from HP contains STEM programs that are exclusively for young women and a financial aid/scholarship section for girls interested in pursuing a career in STEM or computer programming.
Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC) - This Web page provides STEM resources and information on STEM initiatives to assist in cultivating females' STEM, manufacturing, and design (STEM2D) interests at an early age and help them continue to grow and develop in these areas.
Solitaired - Learn about women’s contributions to the tech space in this customized solitaire deck.
STEM Careers Coalition Careers Portal - This website provides a variety of resources featuring career profiles, student activations, challenges, classroom activities, virtual field trips, and more.
STEM Identity Resources for Women and Girls - Women in STEM jobs are increasing in numbers, but there is still a long way to go for equity. Keeping young girls engaged in science, technology, engineering and math from a young age, and avoiding the typical ‘drop off’ that happens to girls around the world in STEM will create a more equitable STEM workforce.
Tips for Getting Girls Involved in STEM - This website provides several tips to increase involvement of girls in STEM., goes in-depth on women engineers and scientist, different jobs, and a ton more!
Women in STEM College and Career Guide - This guide provides information regarding college education and career choices including women-focused STEM scholarships and STEM career and college organizations for women.
Women in Tech - A Complete Guide This guide is intended to encourage more women to enter the tech field. This is accomplished by examining the gender gap and providing information about opportunities that exist for women interested in science, technology and engineering. These opportunities include scholarships, internships, and employment.
Women in the Environment - The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental protection offers free educational materials and resources that focus on the contribution made by women pertaining to the study and protection of the environment from the past to the present.
Articles about Women and Girls in STEM
AAUW. Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. (2010). Retrieved from https://www.aauw.org/.
Advance CTE. (2019) Expanding Opportunity to Access. Retrieved from https://cte.careertech.org/.
Best Coding Bootcamps. (2023, October 24). From the start: Introducing coding to young minds. Best Coding Bootcamps - 2023 Guide for Students and Employers. https://bestcodingbootcamps.com/advice/from-the-start-introducing-coding-to-young-minds/
Breaking the Glass Ceiling Early On: How to Empower Girls in STEM. Georgia Tech Professional Education. (n.d.). Retrieved March 21, 2023, from https://bootcamp.pe.gatech.edu/blog/how-to-empower-girls-in-stem/.
Bride, Debbie. “A Guide for Women Interested in a Programming Career.” Resume.Io, 9 Oct. 2023, resume.io/blog/women-interested-in-programming.
Forbes, Moira. (March 29, 2019). Advice for the Next Generation of Women in STEM. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/.
Lumby, Andrew. “A Guide for Minorities In STEM.” Master's in Data Science, 27 Mar. 2020.
Miller, D.I, Nolla, K.M., Uttal, D.H., & Eagly, A.H.(2018).The Development of Children's Gender‐Science Stereotypes: A Meta‐analysis of 5 Decades of U.S. Draw‐A‐Scientist Studies. Retrieved from https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/.
Milosh, Alex. “Resources to Get Women Started in the Tech Field: Atera's Blog.” Atera, 21 July 2020.
O'Carroll, A. (2023, August 4). Why Women Should Choose a Career in DevOps – and How to Get Started. Spacelift. Retrieved August 29, 2023, from https://spacelift.io/blog/women-in-devops.
Perowne, S. (n.d.). Navigating the Challenges of Women in STEM & Gaming. Wordfinder X. Retrieved August 4, 2023, from https://wordfinderx.com/blog/women-in-stem-gaming/.
Purcell, Karen. (2015). Edutopia: Five Ways to Get Girls into STEM. Retrieved from https://www.edutopia.org/.
Purdue University Global. (2021, January 5). Resources for Women in Computer Technology. Purdue Global.
Wong, Kristen. (March 1, 20199). She Came, She Saw, She Conquered: 8 Women Who Changed the World. Retrieved from https://thestoryexchange.org/.
Writers, Staff. “Women in Computer Science.” ComputerScience.org, ComputerScience.org, 22 Oct. 2019.